After a gig at the Guggenheim Museum last Friday and the final Central Park SummerStage show on Sunday, the Walkmen are staying busy. The New York-based band is currently in a studio preparing tracks for their fifth studio album, due early next spring or summer. Frontman Hamilton Leithauser tells Spinner that this time around, he strived to make ...

Ten years of perfecting rocking crescendos should have prepared Austin, Texas' Explosions in the Sky to take the stage before their musical heroes. Not so, drummer Chris Hrasky tells Spinner. The four-piece, who kick off a short tour with the Flaming Lips August 23, are admittedly nerve-wracked. "They're really hard workers," Hrasky says. "They're ...

As a member of the Pixies and the Breeders, Kim Deal knows her way around a rock song, but in a recent interview with Pop Matters, the 48-year-old confessed she often thinks about exploring a new genre. "I think, 'Golly, I should get into electro pop!" Deal said. "It's so fresh-sounding and everybody seems successful and young, and everybody seems ...