Altsounds — *The Dead Trees* have shared a stage with a slew of indie luminaries including *The Whigs, Rosewood Thieves, Little Joy *and* Albert Hammond Jr. * and in early 2010, they will hit the road with *The Cribs* and *Adam Green*! *Full tour dates below!**... more info

Guardian Music — (Rough Trade)Over on the Downing Street website lurks an e-petition calling for "sleep education" to become part of the national curriculum. Should the government choose to heed its demands, they could save themselves a lot of time and money simply b... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Devendra Banhart, who counts the Gallagher brothers among his fans, recently collaborated with Beck and is teaming up with GZA from hip-hop group Wu Tang Clan.It’s a tie-up that got started after some high brow conversation at Coachella festiv... more info

Live Daily — Freak-folk singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart [ tickets ] will play a few dates in the Northeast and upper Midwest this fall after releasing his latest studio effort. The eight-city outing gets underway Nov. 16 in Chicago, and includes stops in Bo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Vincent Cornelli Okay, so you probably could've guessed it without too much work: Little Joy's opening act [Friday] night, Swami Shave-us Jr, was in fact Devendra Banhart. (The connections? Little Joy's Rodrigo Amarante playe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Vincent Cornelli Okay, so you probably could've guessed it without too much work: Little Joy's opening act last night, Swami Shave-us Jr, was in fact Devendra Banhart. (The connections? Little Joy's Rodrigo Amarante played on Banhart's Smok... more info

Persona Sauna — The weather this weekend was nothing short of unpredictable and dismal. That being said, I decided to spend it indoors for the most part--specifically in a theater.Thoroughly entertaining and with a randomly appropriate soundtrack including Sea Wolf... more info

Stereogum — Following his excursion into Downtown NYC via Velvet Underground & Nico , Beck takes his Record Club to Montreal with a track-by-track smothering covering of Songs Of Leonard Cohen. As we mentioned when we posted "Suzanne," he's joined by "Devend... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "Little Joy is a Brazilian/American rock band formed in 2007 by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante and The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Amarante and Moretti met in 2006, at a festival in Lisbon where both their bands were performing,... more info

Persona Sauna — According to Pitchfork, the second round of Beck's Record Club series has begun, this time with a gathering of his musician friends recording a cover of Leonard Cohen's 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. The recruited group is made up of Devendr... more info