Arcade fire

The National received hate mail for supporting US President Barack Obama's campaign for four more years in the oval office. The band were sent "hate mail on Facebook" for playing a Democratic campaign rally for the incumbent President in Des Moines last month, according to guitarist/keyboardist Aaron Dessner. Despite the criticism, the Brooklyn group say they stand by their decision to publically support Obama as the election is "more important than any rock band".

Class of '09 grads think bigger; wilder.

The National are set to open up a Democratic campaign rally for incumbent US President Barack Obama.

The new issue of Uncut (Take 183, dated August 2012) features a ‘first listen’ to Animal Collective’s new album, Centipede Hz – so in this week’s archive feature, we revisit the band in São Paulo in 2009, just after the release of their acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavilion. Stephen Troussé heads to Brazil to talk Christina Aguilera, musique concrète and the Grateful Dead… –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

All Tomorrow's Parties is set to return to its original venue, Pontins in Camber Sands, after Butlins in Minehead ended its contract with the festival.

Feist and Mastodon have covered each other's songs to celebrate this year's Record Store Day and you can hear the covers now by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.

Chicagoan prodigy drops his guard and takes flight..

Feist has been honoured at Canada's Juno Awards, picking up three gongs including the award for Artist Of The Year.

Career. Commitment. Can this really be The Shins? It surely can...

Public Image Ltd. officially kicked off the build-up to this year's Record Store Day last night (March 19), playing a basement gig in London to mark the announcement of the special releases for this year's event, set for April 21.