From the most serious of love songs to commentary on American society, the stakes have always been high in Future Islands’ music. Find our top 10 tracks below.

The songs are never self-indulgent pity-fests, and the band avoids this pitfall through their controlled sonic and thematic development over the album.

He goes over the top and then some, which is truly refreshing in an era of lead singers who have become all-too-self-aware; for Future Islands, it’s all about the performance. The result is something ...

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Jim Scott, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 50 songs and ...

Future Islands Hits Its Stride For the Baltimore-based band, change has been inevitable in the past year, from their star-making turn on the Late Show with David Letterman, (from where their ...

Future Islands is now back on the road promoting the record. The band stops in Denver on Tuesday, September 24, at Mission Ballroom. Oh, Rose is also on the bill.

Between mid-2008 and 2012, Future Islands played about 600 shows-spending more than half of their time on the road. During those four years, Future Islands released three albums and saw almost ...

Baltimore’s Future Islands are back with a new album, “People Who Aren’t There Anymore.” Are they still the band that confounded the world on “Letterman”?

Though they both play what could be dubbed electronic music, Future Islands and Pretty Lights don't have that much in common.

The Baltimore trio shot to prominence after a performance on the Late Show with David Letterman went viral. Now fifth album ‘The Far Field’ sees them going beyond new expectations.

Here are six events recommended for the coming week. Future Islands Because Baltimore’s Future Islands makes music largely devoid of guitar, it gets casually tagged as “synth pop,” as though ...