Herring and Future Islands will be “taking it on” at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines Monday, May 5, giving concert-goers the opportunity to experience their knack for performing in person. Herring ...

Future Islands, “Singles” (4AD). A recent performance on David Letterman’s show certainly grabbed some attention for this Baltimore synth-based trio. Frontman Samuel T. Herring turned Future Islands’ ...

Baltimore trio Future Islands have explored an unlikely common ground in the earnest melodrama shared by '60s soul music and '80s synth-pop. Vocalist Samuel T. Herring is the salesman who bridges the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I said ages ago that I thought the Future Islands show would be a quick sell-out, which turned out to be wrong, since there are apparently a few tickets left for tonight’s show at 191 Toole (complete ...