Rolling Stone — Jennifer Hudson will look back at personal holiday memories in her Chicago hometown in a prime-time ABC special called Jennifer Hudson: I’ll Be Home for Christmas this December, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Onetime Bad Boy rapper Shyne was ... more info

AngryApe — Their rare album will be available again more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste is a fan. MTV's John Norris is a fan. Kanye West is a fan. Even Animal Collective's Avey Tare's sister Abby is a fan (she drew Chromatic Flights' Favorite Cat EP album artwork). Kyle Wyss, from the 'celeb-acclaimed' Blind... more info

Stereogum — mtvU is the college-dorm targeted branch of Viacom's pop-cultural giving tree. While most of its boughs are wilting when it comes to recognizing relevant music, this university-centric twig at least maintains some semblance of staying evergreen, i... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — There's no doubt that Vampire Weekend will continue to be a commercial success, but will they be a "one-hit-wonder" with the indie kids? Will there be a "wicked backlash"? Can they "do it again" in 2010? Will Carles still be "relevant enough" to b... more info

MTV.com News — Voting begins today for awards honoring the biggest acts in the college music scene.By James Montgomery Drake performs at the 2009 BET Awards Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Hotly tipped Canadian MCs? Check. Hard-charging Southern-rock ro... more info

VH1 News — The 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards nominees include Drake, Kings of Leon, Kid Cudi, Animal Collective and more. more info

Pasta Primavera — Wow it’s been a busy week for remixes, especially since two prominent and pretty sweet ones came out of none other than Phoenix.  Sure there’s been a quadrillion attempts to remix this band and some have shined, some have not.  But when Dev... more info

The Yellow Stereo — Here’s a little something to kick off your weekend in fashion, as this Animal Collective remix of Phoenix’s “Love Like A Sunset” made its debut via Discobelle. As we all know, remixes are a dime a dozen nowadays, especially as of recently in ... more info

Stereogum — When we looked at Pitchfork's 20 Greatest Songs Of The '00s, we also went through the entire list and found the 15 songs they included from 2009, noting that Animal Collective was far and away the the highest placer from our current 12 months. A g... more info