L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — USC's popular music degree program was showcased to the public Sunday with a six-hour festival featuring 17 acts. USC students get onstage and perform, while others help organize, promote and run the festival. Two students will be heard on the forth... more info

Guardian Music — Music bloggers tell us about their labours of loveWho are you and what's your blog called?I'm a man named Sean and I write for Said the Gramophone. (NB Sean is also our north American news correspondent)Where are you based?I live in Montreal, Canada.... more info

Stereogum — Kelly Pratt is a multi-instrumentalist who’s worked with a seriously impressive list of artists that includes Arcade Fire, Beirut, St. Vincent, and David Byrne. He also records his own music under the name Bright Moments, and his album Natives is a... more info

Guardian Music — Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonAfter a couple of seasons exhausting his festival circuit currency, Ian Broudie's reformed Lightning Seeds were last seen playing subdued versions of Three Lions and Pure in seated concert rooms. This didn't suit Broudie... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dave Mutaine picks his candidate (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) Megadeth is currently on the road with Motorhead as part of Gigantour. The show came to The Theater at Madison Square Garden in NYC, and even more recently to the... more info

411 Mania — Get ready for "Abraham's Daughter"... more info

411 Mania — Check out the full tracklist... more info

Stereogum — In December, we mentioned that artists like the Decemberists and Arcade Fire would contribute to the soundtrack for The Hunger Games, the movie based on the addictive teen lit series about kids killing each other, gladiator-style, in an arena as an a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Forget about Arcade Fire and Bonny Bear, who the heck is this old dude playing the Grammys???... more info

Pop Justice — Another major awards ceremony, another Tumblr laughing at people who haven't heard of the more leftfield nominees and winners. It started with Arcade Fire (http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/) and this time it's Bon Iver prompting 'LOLs'. Now ther... more info