Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Andrew Bird is one of the contributors to a new compilation titled Good People Rock which benefits Montreal-based charity organization Yellow Bird Project. It's out now digitally via new Arts & Crafts imprint Madic Records. It's got... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos: Celebrate Brooklyn last year (more by David Andrako) We've known about Celebrate Brooklyn!'s summer slate of 2015 ticketed benefit shows at Prospect Park -- including Modest Mouse, Interpol and Willie Nelson -- for a while and now they've ann... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Calexico's Edge of the Sun is my favorite new album this week. Self-titled albums by Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers and Lowland Hum are also worth your time. Reissues include remastered and expanded editions of two Tori Amos... more info

Stereogum — For the new bands-covering-other-bands benefit compilation Good People Rock, Andrew Bird has recorded a stripped-back, countrified version of the New Pornographers’ 2000 power-pop sugar rush “Fake Headlines.” And now directors Luke McCutcheon a... more info

Stereogum — Last year we heard Andrew Bird’s cover of the New Pornographers’ “The Fake Headlines,” part of the Yellow Bird Project‘s Good People Rock covers comp. Back then we noted that Elvis Perkins and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth cov... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: The New Pornographers @ The Brill Building, 2014 (more by Chris La Putt) Canadian power pop royalty The New Pornographers will be touring this summer in July, a trek that wraps up in Chicago for the Pitchfork Festival. A... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Operators at T5 earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) Operators, the current band of Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits), put out EP 1 last year and are planning to release their debut... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Photo: Operators in Central Park in September (more by Amanda Hatfield) As discussed, Dan Boeckner's current band Operators are set to support the upcoming Future Islands tour, including the NYC shows on January 8 & 9 at Terminal 5... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Pitchfork have begun rolling out their year-end coverage, and today they posted their Top 100 Tracks of 2014. Like every year, it's a very diverse list, with songs from Taylor Swift, The New Pornographers, iLoveMakonnen, Protomartyr, Cloud Nothings, ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Chris La Putt "Would it be cool if @TheNewPornos play for too long tonight in NYC? I'm thinking we should really wear out our welcome." - AC Newman New Pornographers / TPOBPAH @ Hammerstein Ballroom 11/17/2014 Carl Newman... more info