matador records

Ceremony has announced plans to release a two-song 7-inch titled Hysteria b/w I’m A Bug on January 17 via their new label, Matador Records. The band's debut full-length for the label (and follow-up to 2010's critically acclaimed Rohnert Park, released by Bridge Nine) is expected out later in 2012. Check out the cover art, as well […]

The New Pornographers Challengers After the giddy sugar buzzes of the New Pornographers’ first two albums, the Canadian collective’s 2005 disc Twin Cinema. was a slower-moving, more sedate outing whose gifts emerged only after multiple close listens. Challengers, too, lacks the hyperactive power-pop and dizzying harmonic headrushes that first brought the band indie stardom-save for […]