Long-time indie favorite Clap Your Hands Say Yeah brought its melodic, danceable anthems back to an appreciative LA crowd, making El Rey’s stage the second stop of the band’s latest U.S. tour. Toronto-based outfit The Darcys opened. Photos by Leslie Kalohi.

The Darcys have had a busy six months. They announced their signing to Arts & Crafts, released their sophomore full-length as a free download, blew up the CN Tower, and re-recorded Steely... Click on the headline to read the rest of the story.

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Mount Kimbie, Foals, Two Door Cinema Club Song: Bombay Bicycle Club - What You Want (THE DARCYS Remix) [download here ] What's so good? Bombay Bicycle Club is one of those bands that seems like an indie rock institution, and also a group that people just love to remix. Canadian group THE DARCYS did just that with BBC’s 2011 track “What You Want,” recently uploaded on Arts & Crafts’s SoundCloud page. Since this is my second post in a row from the neighbor to the north’s label, it’s safe to say ...

Tell us which bands were best at the Brighton festival As Brighton sets about getting on with its daily business following the seventh annual Great Escape festival, here's some of our coverage from the weekend. Music Weekly podcast: Great Escape festival special We take a trip to the coast and talk to festival acts Django Django and AlunaGeorge The Great Escape festival – in pictures Including Niki & the Dove, Violet and Savages The Great Escape: highlights of the Guardian's New Band of the Day gigs Paul Lester, curator of the guardian's New Band of the Day stage, talks ...

The Toronto art-rock quartet head to Glasgow to play at Captain's Rest, with support from Gemma Ray. Check out Matthew McAndrew's shots of the show.

Steely Dan haben in den 70ern in puncto Eleganz, Stil und Perfektion einen Standard gesetzt, der bis heute Gültigkeit hat. Eine steile Vorlage also für die kanadische Band The Darcys, die das Album “Aja” von Steely Dan von 1977 komplett gecovert und auch so benannt haben. Mögen andere Musiker ihre Verse dahinrotzen, das Nicht-Spielen-Können zur [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours With Broken Social Scene on "indefinite hiatus," there's a hole in the middle of the Arts & Crafts records roster. Broken Social Scene has always been a sort of metonym for Arts & Crafts -- without them, the venerable Toronto label was left with something of an identity crisis. This brought intrigue to last night's CMW/CMF showcase at the Horseshoe Tavern as the label looks to acts including the Darcys, Zeus and Dan Mangan to become the new face of the franchise. Snowblink opened the night, so Daniela Gesundheit's voice was the first instrument ...

The theme of the night on March 8th at the 9:30 Club was: barebones and a mile a minute. No stage ornaments. No banter. No nonsense. In honor of the theme and the two bands I saw, I will do my best to make this blog post the same (who needs sentences when you have [...]

The Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts reached maximum capacity on Saturday night, March 9, 2012, pulsating with energy and excitement as Bombay Bicycle Club descended [...]

I’m not sure how the rest of 2012 will go, but so far this year I’ve already seen two bands making their Washington debuts. First was Slow Club at DC9 in February. And last Wednesday, it was Bombay Bicycle Club’s turn to make the rounds at 9:30 Club (I don’t count their appearance early in the day on the main stage at September 2011’s Virgin Free Fest at Merriweather Post Pavilion – yes, *that* Merriweather... Continue reading Live Review: Bombay Bicycle Club with Lucy Rose and the Darcys, 9:30 Club, Washington DC – 7th March ...

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 TIM FITE @ UNION HALL 702 Union St Brooklyn, NY 11215 $12, 8PM With his latest record Ain't Ain't Ain't in stores this week, Tim Fite is ready to celebrate with a live show at Union Hall. If you only know Fite from his records, the live show takes it to a whole other level. Soulive @ Brooklyn Bowl Nova Social & Bandana Splits @ Littlefield Kaiser Chiefs & Walk The Moon @ Terminal 5 xxxy, Slugabed, & Background Sound @ Glasslands Wormburner & Little Embers @ Mercury Lounge (early) Trust & Doldrums @ Mercury Lounge (late) BELLS, Metz, Teenager, & Video Daughters @ Cake ...

We are beyond stoked to announce the lineup for Homeslice Pizza's "Music by the Slice 2012", to take place Friday March 16, and now featuring fully permitted sound! As always, the party is free (no rsvp, no badge required) and again this year, ALL of the proceeds from concession sales will be donated to charity!!! Friday, March 16: The Belle Brigade (8:20 PM) Radiation City (7:45) Great Lake Swimmers (7:10) Mother Falcon (6:35) Dan Mangan (6:00) Family of the Year (5:25) Dark Dark Dark (4:50) Yellow Ostrich (4:15) Hospitality (3:40 ...

Dreamy indie rock outfit The Darcys hail from Toronto, a city which has spawned the likes of Neil Young and Broken Social Scene. It is fair to say that The Darcys are cut from the same cloth. Ambient guitars, drones and reverb feature heavily, creating a melancholic yet hopeful sound. Aja is a track-by-track tribute [...]

Recommended Show: MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012 YOUNG PRISMS @ GLASSLANDS 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $10, 8:30PM Kanine Records is taking over Brooklyn tonight with Royal Baths performing at Knitting Factory and Young Prisms over at Glasslands. You really can't go wrong with either. Bjork @ Roseland Ballroom Daytona & Fenster @ Cake Shop Rev Vince Anderson @ Union Pool Tennis & Hospitality @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Dex Romweber & ORBO and The Longshots @ Mercury Lounge (early) Ramesh & Feathers @ Mercury Lounge (late) Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys, & Lucy Rose @ Bowery Ballroom Royal Baths, Slowdance, Habibi, & Mike Visser @ Knitting Factory Noxious Foxes, Valerian Swing, Time ...

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 MIKE DOUGHTY @ CITY WINERY 155 Varick St New York, NY 10013 $22, 8PM It'll be a busy Saturday night in the City, that's for sure! There are a bunch of good shows going down, and we're placing Mike Doughty at the top of our list! Soulive @ Brooklyn Bowl Rangda & Loren Connors @ Le Poisson Rouge Body Language & Free Blood @ Mercury Lounge Widowspeak, Mac DeMarco, & Quilt @ Glasslands Party Supplies & Nick Catchdubs @ Tammany Hall Tombs, Argonauts, & The Year Is One @ Union Pool Tennis, Hospitality, & Air Waves @ Bowery Ballroom White Laces, Abadabad, Flights, & Milk Dick ...