After a decade or so as Ought, vocalist/guitarist Tim Darcy, bassist Ben Stidworthy, keyboardist Matt May and drummer/violinist Tim Keen announced their breakup on Nov. 3. “We are no longer active as ...

Ought are no more. Today, the Montreal post-punk band announced that they have broken up. "We are no longer active as a band," they wrote in a statement on their Instagram, continuing: When we started ...

It was a refreshing proposition to discover that Constellation Records were releasing a post-punk album full of spiky rhythms and choppy riffs, it was even more pleasing when 2014’s More Than Any ...

The everyday is beautiful. The everyday is boring. In "Beautiful Blue Sky," from last year's Sun Coming Down, Ought braids the roots of daily pleasantries and terror ...

The band who made one of 2015’s best albums are committed to being serious – but also to having fun. The Montrealers talk about ‘disrupting bureaucracy’, challenging their fans and spotting an Arctic ...

Rock fiends everywhere mourned last fall when the Montreal art-punk quartet Ought announced they were calling it quits. The news abruptly ended one of the past decade’s most adventurous indie runs, ...

I think of religion as having three integrated strands: 1) the interpretive (what is life's meaning? Is there a God?); 2) the spiritual (awe, gratitude, humility); and 3) the moral/ethical (how should ...

Ought have broken up. “We are no longer active as a band,” the post-punk quartet announced in a statement today. “When we started Ought in 2012 we had no greater aspirations than to play and write ...