Brooklyn Vegan — The backstory has been repeated so often with such insistence that three years later it's become a mythic tall tale: Guy breaks up band in North Carolina, decamps to the wilds of Wisconsin, makes a record originally intended to be... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — 20. Peter Bjorn & John - "Young Folks"; Who knew whistling could be this catchy? Maybe if Andrew Bird would have simplified things he would have wound up on this list! Either way there is no denying how great this song was the first time you heard it... more info

XLR8R — Fans of Toronto's gamer-geek-with-a-violin Final Fantasy (a.k.a. Owen Pallett) can expect a new, third LP, Heartland, via Domino in January of next year. Started in November of last year, Heartland saw Pallett collaborating with Arcade Fire drum... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Transfixed by Japanese culture and laying psychedelic dance rhythms. Meet Gold Panda - a one-man Animal Collective. more info

I Guess I'm Floating — One week ago, I was caught smack dab in the middle of ATP on a super Saturday afternoon. Just glancing at Saturday's lineup was enough to make any ATP attendee giddy - stacked from the first to last act with little time for breaks in between. When ... more info

MTV.com News — Artists like Lykke Li, Hurricane Bells, Sea Wolf and Band of Skulls are featured on album.By Gil Kaufman Lykke Li Photo: Getty Images/ Mark Allan Anyone who knows anything about "Twilight" scribe Stephenie Meyer knows that the vampire-spaw... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Sure, it may be “My Boys” instead of “My Girls”, but this is still a Animal Collective cover. A mighty good one at that. Taken By Trees is the project of Victoria Bergsman, a Swedish singer and songwriter that you all have probably have heard... more info

DJmag — Can electronic psychedelicists Animal Collective rock the huge Brixton Academy? more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words by Black Bubblegum, photos by Ryan Muir Steve Albini in Shellac We're taking a bath, but I don't care," Barry Hogan told [Sasha Frere-Jones]. We were standing in the makeshift production office for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, at... more info

Stereogum — Our second year at Kutsher's was rainier than the first, but that didn't matter so much to us or, seemingly, the other attendees: If anything, this year felt more celebratory (and debauched) than 2008. You wouldn't be faulted for noting a certain ... more info