L.A. Times - Entertainment — Akron/Family is impossible to pigeonhole. Akron/Family is impossible to pigeonhole. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Akron/Family: 2009-08-11, Washington [mp3,ogg,flac] "Ed Is a Portal" [mp3] Akron/Family: 2009-03-19, ME TV [mp3,ogg,flac] "Meek Warrior" [mp3] Akron/Family: 2009-03-17, Denver [mp3,ogg,flac] "Crickets" [mp3] Akro... more info

My Old Kentucky — I sort of lost track of Slaraffenland, the five-piece band from Denmark, after our introduction a few years back, but I picked up their latest album, We're On Your Side, from a stack the other day and popped it in. I was instantly reminded of what I... more info

XLR8R — The sixth full-length from Toronto's post-rock titans Do Make Say Think washes ashore via Constellation on October 20, and consists of only four mammoth-sized tracks titled, ironically enough, "Do," "Make," "Say," and you guessed it, "Think." Fe... more info

Stereogum — The ever-expanding and contracting Toronto quintet Do Make Say Think's sixth full-length Other Truths is made up of four long tracks, "Do," "Make," "Say," and "Think." (It's like taking "self-titled" to the molecular level.) Three go beyond the 10... more info

JamBase — San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Art Festival Announces Stage Schedule JoJo Hermann - WSP :: Outside Lands 2008 by Weintrob Over 70 musical acts have been crammed into a three-day schedule for the 2009 Outside Lands Festival, set to take plac... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Leia Jospe "We arrived at Other Music at 6.25pm only to be greeted by a queue of NYC hipsters that extended round the corner of the block. It was doors 7pm and space was minimal in the tiny... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Some interesting and awesome and FREE in-store events coming up in NYC: Akron/Family will play at Other Music on August 9 Regina Spektor plays at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square on August 18 Nick Cave will be at Barnes & Noble Union Square on Sep... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Akron/Family @ All Points West Sunday (more by Chris La Putt) APW Day Three: MOST AWKWARD ATTEMPT AT CROWD PARTICIPATION "We like fun," Akron/Family's Miles Seaton yelled. "Do you like fun?" Well either the crowd truly felt ambivalent about fun... more info

JamBase — Outside Lands Announces String Of Late Night Shows & The Barbary Tent Come see ALO late night at the Gramble San Francisco's Outside Lands has announced a round of night shows during the weekend and days leading up to the festival. Some of San... more info