A warning to all potential significant others: Break the Drums’ singer Jonathan Pierce’s heart, and risk an icy shower of emotion written into song in your honor. Although the Brooklyn indie rockers ...

Between last year's self-titled debut and follow-up Portamento, NYC's the Drums parted ways with guitarist Adam Kessler and considered disbanding. Though they persevered, this sophomore effort is ...

Portamento, the sophomore album from Brooklyn’s genre-crossing collective The Drums, is scheduled to hit shelves on September 13 via Frenchkiss. Along with official pre-order being available, 3VOOR12 ...

Emerging from Brooklyn via Florida in 2009, The Drums initially caught the ear of the indie world with their Summertime! EP. It was an escapist collection of beach pop fantasies; tracks suffused with ...

They still sound in thrall to The Smiths, New Order and lower-tier Factory bands like Section 25 and The Wake. And they still sound like a lighter, reverb-swathed “A Forest”/”Jumping Someone Else's ...

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Brooklyn’s The Drums aren’t wasting time, but they’ve found it hard to keep up. The release of their second album, Portamento, comes just 15 months after their debut. In between the two, they toured ...