Baltimore’s Future Islands have shared a brand-new song, “Glimpse ”. Recorded during the People Who Aren’t There Anymore sessions, “Glimpse” focuses on a family home burning down and coming to terms ...

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 ...

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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 kicked off the year with the release of People Who Aren’t There Anymore. Since then, they've celebrated 10 years of their viral Letterman performance and frontman Samuel T. Herring ...

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 ...

Jason Bentley is a huge fan of Future Islands’ album “In Evening Air” and called it a “compelling work of art” when he introduced the band for their Morning Becomes Eclectic debut. Goth-influenced ...

Future Islands released a new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore, in January via 4AD. Now they have returned with a one-off single, “Glimpse,” shared via a music video. Jayla Smith directed the ...

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Jim Scott, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 50 songs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baltimore synth-pop band Future Islands first came to prominence with the release of their fourth album in 2014, after the lead single “Seasons (Waiting On You)” was cited among the year’s best tracks ...