Illinois-based Polyvinyl Records is turning 15 years old. They plan to commemorate their anniversary with nine Polyvinyl bands playing an all-day/all-night show two blocks from [...]

The Brooklyn-based indie-pop duo Asobi Seksu have once again taken noise and creatively constructed it into transient music. With an emphasis on opaque vocals, heavy [...]

Asobi Seksu’s mixture of ethereal guitar layers strummed by James Hanna and the nothing-short-of-angelic vocals of Yuki Chikudate were intoxicating. Looking around the room I saw fans with their eyes closed, letting the music wash over them, only briefly snapping back to reality to cheer at each song’s completion. The drumsticks of Larry Gorman were a blur in the white strobe lights, and bassist Billy Pavone delivered an amazing, often fever-pitched performance.

Brooklyn’s Asobi Seksu have officially announced the release of their new album, Fluorescence, which will come out Feb 15, 2011 on CD and vinyl through Polyvinyl. [...]

Asobi Seksu stripped away the ornate elements of dream-pop and got back to basics with Rewolf. The entire album is acoustic with everything as lo-fi [...]

Asobi Seksu is one of many bands who are recreating the distorted ambient sound popularized in the early 1990s. Heavy rhythms overlaid with vocals both [...]