Was ever a modern band's debut record more immediately iconic for the college set than MGMT? A decade ago, Oracular Spectacular captured the yearning of white collegiate life, in which gloriously stoned co-eds aspired to return to a childish state and forego the dreariness of the middle class routine. Because the music was so melodically appealing, they quickly expanded past their initial art kid...

Destroyer songs don’t lend themselves to easy black-and-white interpretation. Over the last two decades, Dan Bejar has assembled a beguiling and occasionally maddening body of work under that name, uniting albums of glammed-up folk, melodramatic MIDI orchestrations, and louche soft rock under his oblique and archly grandiose poetic sensibility. His is the voice of the smartest and possibly drunkest...

On Friday, SPIN and Pitchfork revealed that Matt Mondanile, the ex-Real Estate guitarist who also performs as a solo artist under the name Ducktails, was dismissed from the band amid allegations of “unacceptable treatment of women." Mondanile issued a blanket denial of wrongdoing to Pitchfork. When contacted by SPIN via email on Friday regarding the allegations and the statement we had received...