First Listen: She & Him, 'Volume 3'

Playful, soft, sunnily melancholy and springlike, Zooey Deschanel's songs with M. Ward once again subsist on the strength of their own agreeability. Timelessness has long been key to the duo's charm, and indeed, Volume 3 seems to be floating through AM speakers at all times. Listen to She & Him's Volume 3 now, streaming courtesy of WFUV and NPR Music prior to its release on May 7 in the States and May 13 in the UK and Europe.

Death Cab's Ben Gibbard and She & Him's Zooey Deschanel Split

It's been a heartbreaker of a month for indie rock stars. In mid-October, the long, 27-year marriage of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon came to an end and on Tuesday, November 1, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and She & Him's Zooey Deschanel announced that they're splitting after a two year marriage.

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