Few modern electronic pop acts have made a mark as distinctive as Baltimore’s Future Islands. Riding a vivid line between New Romantic synth-pop and dance rock, they’ve become indie sensations with ...

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 drops its fifth studio album this Friday, plays Coachella the week after and then begin its tour in earnest. Last year, the band began writing songs in its native North Carolina and ...

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 ...