Exclusive Song: Indie Supergroup Swan Lake

Members of Wolf Parade, the New Pornographers, and Frog Eyes join forces. Listen to the results here!
Swan Lake

Not every supergroup is super -- remember Eyes Adrift, anyone? Indie-rock trio Swan Lake, however, is; they have tunes to prove it -- and you can hear one of their best below!

The Five Most Notorious Equipment Thefts Since 2005

In light of Iggy and the Stooges having their instruments and equipment lifted from outside their hotel in Canada, SPIN.com takes a look at other unfortunate recent cases of gear-snatching.
Iggy Pop / Photo by Michelle Lawlor

To quote the title of a Stooges song, this is simply not right. On the morning of Aug. 5, Iggy Pop and his cohorts awoke in Montreal, Canada to find all of their instruments and equipment -- not to mention the truck that was holding the gear -- had been stolen over the night.

Wolf Parade: Animal Collective of Montreal

Following up a revered debut album with a more, um, challenging one often inspires catty backlash. But the scruffy Canadian indie rockers of Wolf Parade are too busy playing in 17 other bands to worry. Is this the new careerism?

Montreal is only 47 minutes from New York in a plane no bigger than a school bus. But on this cloudy late April morning, each of those 47 minutes is teeth-gnashingly, stomach-churningly turbulent, making it impossible to forget that you are, in fact, not on a school bus, but rather inside a thin metal tube careening rapidly 35,000 feet above the ground in a manner antithetical to man's nature.

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