ContactMusic — Lydia Bright thinks appearing in Strictly Come Dancing would be really fun The 20-year-old star explained while she has no plans to leave The Only Way Is Essex at the moment she would love to take part in the BBC One celebrity dance competitio... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Three singles are the new music highlights this week, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' If I Had a Gun, Bat for Lashes' A Forest (For Invisible Children), and Bright Eyes' We Are Gonna Be Friends (which features First Aid... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Spa... more info

Guardian Music — (RCA)With Christmas around the corner, you can hardly move for X Factor-related stocking-fillers – recent weeks have yielded albums from One Direction, Matt Cardle, Cher Lloyd et al. But the best, relatively speaking, has been saved for last. Scous... more info

Nialler9 — I’ve a soft spot for these gals ever since I saw them at SXSW and this performance. They are currently on tour with Lykke Li and Bright Eyes in the US. The video was shot in a national park outside Stockholm where the sisters more info

Guardian Music — Listen exclusively to the Swedish sisters' country-tinged trackSwedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, aka First Aid Kit, have always seemed wise beyond their years. The pair create gorgeous torch songs that belie the fact they're in their earl... more info

Altsounds — *Gift Horse Project* and *Manimal Vinyl Records* are pleased to present *Cool for School -* for the benefit of *The Lunchbox Fund.* The album curated by _Gift Horse Project_ (http://silverpr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9a4e24cfd7f08279c2dd3c17... more info

Stereogum — Cool For School, a digital-only compilation that benefits The Lunchbox Fund, features covers by the likes of Bright Eyes and Albert Hammond, Jr. Today, we’re sharing a track that features the second-most-famous Stroke covering Big Star’s 1972 cla... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — And those two voices and two guitars are all it takes. The duo play the Music Box in Hollywood on Friday behind their first album in eight years, 'The Harrow & the Harvest.'The volume seemed to be turning up: Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings were movi... more info

Stereogum — On Friday night, Bright Eyes took to L.A.’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery to play a set with Kurt Vile. Stereogum snapper Jasper Bernbaum was there to chronicle the Bright Eyes portion of the show and jot down the setlist. The setlist: 01 “Four Wind... more info