Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty One of rock's royal families has just gotten a bit bigger. Régine Chassagne and Win Butler, the power couple behind Arcade Fire, have welcomed a brand new seven-pound baby boy into the world. Chassange gave birth to the boy on Sunday, April 21. News of which came, perhaps appropriately, via a holy man. ...

Feist hologram There are some cultures in the world that have in the past -- and still today -- believe that photographing a person can steal their soul. While the shamans and mystics have yet to rule on the effects of holograms, one thing is for certain -- if you use the power of digital holography to raise the dead it will result in a ...

Sandra-Lee Phipps, REM HQ It was this week some 30 years ago that Athens, GA band R.E.M. released their first proper studio album Murmur, kickstarting a career that would yield dozens of worldwide hits, 15 studio albums and James Mercer's eternal ire because he knows The Shins will never be as good as them. Murmur is an exceptional album ...

Frank Micelotta, Getty It was 19 years ago today that Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home from an apparent self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head (or was it murder?). Modern rock radio is full of tributes to Cobain today. As is social media. One such tribute came from Broken Social Scene/Eight and a Half ...

Blue Horizon Having made their name anachronistically singing songs about the Vietnam War, Austin-via-Altamont band the Black Angels continue to show little inclination to acknowledge music made after 1973 on fourth album Indigo Meadow. Much of the band's wall of noise bombast has been swapped out for shorter organ-led bursts this time ...

Mute That the bristling gloom-rock of Crime & the City Solution sounds like Nick Cave in both relentless musical push and lyrical intensity is no accident. The often-dormant Australian band can boast direct lineal connections to the Birthday Party and new album American Twilight, the band's first in 13 years, fairly matches Cave's ...

Patrick Hertzog, AFP Imagine for a moment you're in 1987 and listening to your favorite FM rock radio station. It's playing Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly," the band's post-Roger Waters #1 comeback hit. As the hypnotic song coasts along, capturing its intended feeling of soaring through the air, suddenly at the 3:50 mark where David Gilmour's ...