As Spoon gets ready for release next week (Jan. 19) of its seventh album, "Transference", the popular indie rock quartet have announced a headlining tour. By Michael D. Ayers As Spoon gets ready for ...

Whenever Rocks Off thinks about Spoon – which, over the past decade, has been quite a bit – the one word that always comes to mind is “punctuation.” No other band we can think of consistently crafts ...

Spoon‘s seventh studio album, “Transference,” strikes a balance between its early angsty indie-rock and the soulful deconstructed pop of its 2007 release, “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.” The battered piano… By ...

Spoon deconstructs itself on its latest disc. The band’s eighth album finds it focusing only on bare chords and hard beats. They don’t gussy up a single riff or vocal with fuzzy production or glossy ...

Spoon will always be Spoon, but the indie group’s seventh studio album, Transference, makes you feel like your are listening to Spork. The careful manipulations of sound, along with the flow of the ...

Spoon, the Austin, Texas quartet, has just released its seventh album, called Transference. An indie band on a small record label, Spoon has gained widespread familiarity by having its songs played on ...

In more traditional and sentimental hands the titleTransferencecould be some sort of snooty way for a musician to reference a busted love and a new love. With Spoon, transference is more an operating ...

If you aren’t already a Spoon fan, Transference won’t be an easy album to fall in love with. It’s one of those “difficult” releases that critics like me claim to love because it makes us feel superior ...

But it took more than a decade for Spoon to get there. The band came together in Austin, Texas, in 1993; five years later, it signed on with a major label, Elektra. In the sea of alternative acts of ...

As Spoon gets ready for release next week of its seventh album, "Transference," the indie rock quartet has announced a headlining tour. By Michael D. Ayers, Billboard, The Associated Press NEW YORK — ...

More than most bands shuffling around the indie circuit, Austin’s erstwhile Spoon (frontman Britt Daniel now resides in Portland) usually understands the value of tension and space. On their latest ...

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over ...