Future Islands are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new rarities compilation, From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain ...

Sometimes listening to melancholy music actually makes you feel better, especially if it has a catchy beat over otherwise morose lyrics. Bands such as the Smiths and the Cure introduced, and perfected ...

Future Islands is one of those wonderful bands that are impossible to pigeonhole. Wikipedia calls it synth pop, and maybe a 21st-century version of that 1980s scene works as a descriptor. You can hear ...

Samuel Herring and the band will make an 8-show jaunt around the state before a finale in Baltimore ...

Because Baltimore’s Future Islands makes music largely devoid of guitar, it gets casually tagged as “synth pop,” as though the ‘90s never happened. Rather than a slick update of ‘80s New Wave, Future ...

Herring and Future Islands will be “taking it on” at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines Monday, May 5, giving concert-goers the opportunity to experience their knack for performing in person. Herring ...

A couple weeks ago a writer friend texted me a screengrab of an Instagram of a stocky guy in a tight black T-shirt tucked into pleated black slacks. The pants were held at his actual waist by a black ...

According to the letters and numbers etched on the inner rings of this 7″ that’s split between two bands of old college pals, Raleigh’s Lonnie Walker takes the B-side, while Baltimore’s Future Islands ...

This morning, North Carolina natives and Baltimore residents Future Islands took to Instagram to announce important summertime news: They’re coming home—or at least to Carrboro—to play their 1,000th ...

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