Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (photo: Zachary Gray) After more than a decade at the center of one of indie rock’s most idiosyncratic success stories, alt-J ...
Alt-J’s keyboardist/vocalist Gus Unger-Hamilton could hardly believe his luck when an alt-J song was chosen not for a niche, low-budget arthouse film beloved of Sight and Sound readers but for the ...
There's mystery in the music of Alt-J: The band's songs are wrapped in enigmatic textures, with swift shifts in arrangements inside every song and an oddness to the drums. Mere glimpses of lyrics are ...
If you ask Joe Newman, vocalist, and co-founder of the popular band alt-J, about the genesis of the band’s new record, The Dream, which is out Friday (February 11), he’ll tell you it all began, ...
“It was surreal,” laughs keyboard player Gus Unger-Hamilton, sipping tea outside Alt-J’s management office in East London. “We were like, ‘It’s us!’ but her younger fans didn’t really know what was ...
This is not your regular music video – it's a six-minute, miniature epic inspired by "Pleader," the closing cut on alt-J's album Relaxer. The song itself is inspired by Richard Llewelyn's book How ...
Australia knows Alt-J very well now. Right before their debut album An Awesome Wave dropped, they played two nights at Ding Dong Lounge which had fans trying to sneak in through fire escapes.
The band shared the news in a press statement issued today (August 31), noting that their decision came “after much debate”. They continued: “We are so sorry to disappoint all our fans down under who ...
Alt-J‘s second album, ‘This Is All Yours’, was released in September 2014, and in the two years since the band has headlined Latitude and played a UK arena tour; keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton has ...
alt-J have shared a brief snippet of their new single "U&ME", which is landing in full on Wednesday (22 September). Last week alt-J announced something called "U&ME" for this week, and this afternoon ...
The lead single from 'The Dream' crowns Adult Alternative Airplay. By Kevin Rutherford For the first time, Alt-J is No. 1 on a Billboard song chart. “U&ME,” the lead single from the trio’s latest ...