In Derek Miller’s apartment in Williamsburg, there is a poster on the refrigerator door of Larry Bird, the Boston Celtics legend. Bird’s mouth is agape, his right arm fully extended, his body nearly ...

The time elapsed between Sunflower Bean’s exit and Sleigh Bells’ entrance felt notably long, and this paired with the two groups’ distinctive sounds made the sets feel as though they belonged to two ...

HELL YEAH. When we first heard Sleigh Bells' album, the big-room beats creeping up from on a couple songs made us think band mastermind Derek Miller had been hitting up some of the same raves as us ...

Hooks hit you from every direction on the new Sleigh Bells single. In the note-perfect “Bitter Rivals,” the sound of dogs barking, girls cooing, a guitar rattling and percussion clicking all vie for ...

When singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller started making music together seven years ago as the indie noise pop band Sleigh Bells, the two were basically strangers. They’d met briefly in a ...

When we rolled up to the Skins premiere party that MTV threw at a giant warehouse on Manhattan's West Side Highway the first thing we saw was a teenager getting arrested. In the sense that there were ...

returning with their second album, 'reign of terror', brooklyn-via-florida duo sleigh bells make a cacophenous comeback. singer alexis krauss and guitarist / producer derek e miller have recorded the ...

Opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers isn’t an easy gig for Sleigh Bells. The quirky, young noise-pop duo doesn’t quite jibe with the long of tooth punk-funkateer’s audience. ‘Some of the Chili Pepper ...

Is it fair to bellow over everyone else? Erupting from Brooklyn, Sleigh Bells have pelted eardrums of the curious with possibly the loudest release this year in the form of debut album Treats. With ...

Since forming in 2008, Sleigh Bells (due tomorrow night at the Ogden Theatre) have issued three records, a debut EP on M.I.A.’s N.E.E.T. Recordings in 2009 ...

Like so many indie acts today, Sleigh Bells sounds more like a lab experiment than a band. It’s easy to imagine the Brooklyn-based duo (expanded to a trio on tour) sitting around mapping out the ...

Sleigh Bells return with their fifth album titled Kid Kruschev, yet seven years after their debut the band sticks with a similar sound to Treats without the punch. At only 21 minutes long, Kid ...