Taken By Trees – “Anna” [f. Panda Bear]
Taken by Trees released a special version of “Anna” featuring Panda Bear in order to promote her upcoming U.S. tour. If you haven’t heard her 2009 LP, East of Eden, grab it now and thank me later. She’ll be hitting San Francisco’s Cafe du Nord on March [...]

Whenever the moon is just right, the Vague Panther picks his favorite MP3s from the web to bring you the “In the Know” series. If you’ve got a tip that might pique his interest email him at vaguepanther(at)strangerdance.com.

Jonsi and Alex – “Boy 1904″
Sigur Rós frontman, Jonsi Birgisson, and his boyfriend, Alex Somers, are set to [...]

San Francisco’s Geographer have quickly become darlings of critics and Bay Area fans alike. Their debut album, Innocent Ghosts, garnered accolades from the likes of SF Chronicle, Performer Magazine and SPIN, who included them in their list of three undiscovered bands you need to hear now.
You can catch Geographer live tomorrow night (4/23) at Cafe [...]

Talk about an intimate performance – where are they? I wish I could just walk into some cafe and find Sigur Ros playing. Damn you, La Blogotheque!

This weekend is shaping up to be a pretty good one. In case you’ve been living under a rock, we just wanted to remind you that Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off today and I can’t believe I’m stuck at work while MC Hammer takes the stage. Anyhoo, the whole festival is absolutely free – personally, [...]

So, exciting times around these parts. Not only are 5 bajillion cool bands playing at Outside Lands a mere nine days from now, but we’re also breaking out of our little shell and throwing a party to celebrate the release of Cousin Chris‘ debut album Moon Paper. We’re inviting all our readers and fellow bloggers [...]

Critic Simon Reynolds is generally credited as the first to use the term “post rock” in his review of Bark Psychosis’ album Hex in the March 1994 issue of Mojo magazine. As the almighty Wikipedia states, he used the term to describe music “using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre [...]

I know you’re upset. I’m one day late. But after spending days and nights arguing the definition of a mix with the Stranger, I came to the conclusion that, alas, Meow Mix was not a mix. This is partially my fault – I never really intended it to be a mix, but rather a collection [...]

Yes, I realize this is old news. Starting last week you could stream Sigur Ros’ new album, Meo suo i eyrum vio spilum endalaust (With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly), from their official website, eighteen seconds before sunrise. But why would you do that when you could listen to it right here, [...]

What does it all mean? Why is Sigur Ros suddenly naming songs in English? Does that count as English? Is another album coming out? I wouldn’t mind it considering the whole Heima and Hvarf- Heim DVD+CD thing was filled mostly with acoustic versions of, alas, nothing new. Okay, I admit that the documentary did balance [...]