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More than two decades after the Postal Service’s first — and so far only—album, Give Up, became a surprise platinum-selling hit, Sylvan Esso remixed one of its singles at the group’s request. The duo, which formed a decade after Give Up’s release and has tiptoed in the Postal Service’s footsteps with their approach to electropop and indie rock, has put a new spin on “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.”

Where the Postal Service’s original recording blended glitchy, lo-fi drum machine clapping and angelic vocals, Sylvan...

Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso announced the release of their 10th anniversary self-titled debut album Tuesday. The anniversary album, Sylvan Esso, features eight new tracks including remixes to hits such as “Hey Mami,” “Coffee,” and “H.S.K.T,” and marks the indie band’s latest album release since No Rules Sandy.

Their 10th anniversay brings listeners back to the beachside pop album that weaved themes of suffering, love, darkness, and deliverance. Made up of the married duo Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, their 18-track anniversary album fuses quirky folk with...

Sylvan Esso have issued a new EP in which they perform songs from their latest record, No Rules Sandy, Live at Electric Lady, and cover a song by Low.

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn were joined by several accomplished musicians for their Electric Lady session, including Jenn Wasner, Tj Maiani, Joe Westerlund, and Mason Stoops. What’s more, the EP features strings by the Attaca Quartet, arranged by Gabriel Kahane.

In addition to five renditions of cuts from No Rules Sandy, Live at Electric Lady features a cover of Low’s “Will the Night,” recorded as a tribute to late drummer Mimi Parker.

“Both Amelia and I are huge fans of Low and were so sad to hear about Mimi passing,” Sanborn explained in a statement. “I can still remember hearing The Curtain Hits the Cast for the first time as a teenager and being immediately struck by ‘Anon’ — they...

Sylvan Esso released their new album No Rules Sandy via Loma Vista to critical acclaim earlier in the year, and after five long years, the duo will return to the UK/EU in 2023 for limited live dates.

Created primarily over the course of three weeks that Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn spent in a small Los Angeles rental home at the beginning of 2022, the album is both the fastest the band has ever made a record, and the most uninhibited. “Even if we weren’t feeling good, we would just sit down and try to make something,” Meath says. “Pretty much every day that we did that, we got a song that we liked.”

The tour will take place in July 2023 and will see headline dates in Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, and London.

Sylvan Esso 2023 UK/EU Live Dates

Sylvan Esso continue to leap from the frameworks of pop and electronic music into a wilder unknown.

Marcus Mumford has announced a headlining North American tour in support of his upcoming solo debut, (Self-Titled).

The tour kicks off Sept. 19 at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado and will continue through much of the fall, wrapping Nov. 10 at Massey Hall in Toronto. Mumford will receive support from singer-songwriter Danielle Ponder between Sept. 19 and Oct. 14, while the A’s — a new band featuring Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath and Daughter of Swords’ Alexandra Sauser-Monnig — will provide support from Oct. 17 – Nov. 10 (except on Oct. 30).

Tickets for all dates will go on sale July 29 at 10 a.

Sylvan Esso have released a fragmented, stripped-down new single, “Your Reality.” The track follows last month’s “Sunburn,” the electronic pop duo’s first new music since 2020’s Free Love.

The instrumentation on “Your Reality” is sparse, with Amelia Meath singing the vocals almost like a poem as she asks, “Were there rules originally, or are we learning how to be?”

In a press release, Meath’s bandmate Nick Sanborn describes the song as a “reference point for how weird we can take it. How bare and strange something can be.

Local Natives appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their songs “When Am I Gonna Lose You” and “Dark Days.”

The first song comes off the band’s 2019 album Violet Street, while “Dark Days” dates back to their 2016 effort Sunlit Youth. Performing on Kimmel’s outdoor stage, the band gave both tracks their signature lush, moody vibe with Amelia Meath joining on “Dark Days.”

The band dropped Violet Street last April via Loma Vista Recordings. “When Am I Gonna Lose You” was one of the first songs from the album,...

In our new series, we look at eight cities where live music has exploded — from legendary hubs like Chicago and Nashville, to rising hot spots like Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Portland, Maine. The latest falls into the second category: the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill “Triangle,” where college radio isn’t dead and collaboration is encouraged between artists, creating a sound you can’t find anywhere else.

Just a few months after they moved to Durham in 2013, Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath of the electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso played their first-ever proper local show,...

Hiss Golden Messenger have announced a lengthy North American fall tour. The North Carolina-based indie folk-rock outfit, led by singer-songwriter Mc Taylor, will start the newly announced run of shows in Greenville, South Carolina, at the Radio Room on September 24th. Along the way, they’ll make two-night stops in Seattle, Washington, and Denver, Colorado, before finishing in Philadelphia on November 17th. Highlights include headlining performances at the Basement East in Nashville and the newly reopened Webster Hall in New York.

Back in February, Hiss Golden Messenger released two new singles,...

With car dashboards eliminating CD inputs and relying more on smart displays and smartphones, podcasts — both music-related and others — are increasingly becoming big players for a captive mobile audience. In a recent Nielsen Podcasts Insight Report, the number of homes that considered themselves “avid podcast fans” went from 13 million in 2016 to 16 million in November 2017.

With more than 240 music-related podcasts available on iTunes alone, it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, so we’ve done it for you: Below is a subjective selection of 10 of our favorite music podcasts, in no particular order.

“Song Exploder” (iTunes/SoundCloud) — Film and TV composer Hrishikesh Hirway hosts this bi-weekly, 20-minute deep dive into a single song, with musicians from Solange and Lorde to Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent and Phoenix offering both anecdotes and the thought process behind their creations. In an episode spotlighting Lorde’s “Sober,” she tells the story...