This September, CBS Interactive's award-winning concert webcast series, LIVE ON LETTERMAN, presented by AT&T, will showcase GRAMMY®-nominated indie rockers Band of Horses and electro-pop sensation ...

A light guitar strum—sampled from Brazilian maestro Luiz Bonfá’s “Seville”—oscillates back and forth, before merging with a spare xylophone solo. Hushed, melancholic vocals disrupt the hypnotic ...

A couple of weeks ago, as I sat in the living room of my Brooklyn apartment, I heard a familiar xylophonic riff reverberating from a car's subwoofers on the street. I thought, "Is someone really ...

Gotye and his bandmates have formed a rock'n'roll-based political group to contest the upcoming Victorian election. The Grammy winner and his fellow musicians from Melbourne group, The Basics, have ...

It’s taking place early next month in downtown Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. The Basics’ Kris Schroeder is spending the year in Mongolia doing advocacy work for the National Centre Against Violence.

This has been a landmark year for Wouter “Wally” De Backer, better known to music fans by a pet name that his mother used for him as a child—Gotye. After releasing his third full-length album, titled ...

Wally De Backer and the Basics set their sights on Victoria’s election, saying politics shouldn’t ‘belong’ to Australia’s elite The musician Wally De Backer – also known as Gotye – is forming a ...

Australia's Gotye is back with the Basics for national live dates -- and new recordings haven't been ruled out. By Lars Brandle Wally De Backer — better known as Gotye — isn’t your typical musician.

A big hit can be a mixed blessing when it's all anyone knows about you. Wouter "Wally" De Backer, known to radio listeners as Gotye, is riding high on the success of Somebody I Used to Know, which ...

The indie rock singer's "Somebody That I Used to Know" is nominated for the top prize, video of the year. By Rebecca Ford Senior Awards Editor Singer-songwriter Gotye’s song “Somebody That I Used to ...

I'd want Prince in the band but I'd give him something hilarious to do, maybe programming a LinnDrum machine. As amazing as he is in every other respect, he does have a remarkable knack for getting ...