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 ...

Sleigh Bells though have been blessed and possibly, depending on how fortune favours them, cursed with a high-profile connection in controversy-courting musical magpie MIA that certainly puts into ...

Sleigh bells certainly help make Christmas music sound so Christmassy. But it’s a little more complicated than just that.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sleigh Bells release their new album, 'Bitter Rivals' on Lucky Number / Mom and Pop. 'Bitter Rivals' is the band's third album, and, following their 2010 debut, 'Treats', and 2012 album 'Reign Of ...

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 ...