LargeHeartedBoy — Consequence of Sound reviews the new Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs. The New York Times chronicles the final days of comics legend Harvey Pekar. The Detroit Free Press interviews Jack White about his various music projects. Psychology Today has launc... more info

The Telegraph — The Canadian band talk about the genesis of their imminent third album, The Suburbs. more info

USA Today Music — Within hours of most any concert, shaky and distorted footage of the show can be found online from front row or the balcony. more info

Stereogum — Funeral was about family, and Neon Bible was about institutions. The Suburbs on first listen, feels like adolescence, the time when you’re trapped between leaving one and joining the other. Will and Winn Butler told NPR that the record would be abo... more info

Stereogum — The same station blog that brought you 30-second samples from Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs just put up samples of Daft Punk’s upcoming Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Have a listen to six of the tracks here. (via P4K) more info

Guardian Music — As announcements go, this year's Mercury prize nominations didn't exactly set my world on fire (nor that of Alexis Petridis, who blogged on the announcement). Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Corinne Bailey Rae, I Am Kloot ... I guess the judges liked ... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — NEW YORK: Within hours of most any concert, shaky and distorted footage of the show can be found online from front row or the balcony. more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offREM Fall On Me I somehow overlooked 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant at the time, but now I can't stop playing it. This is one of the more direct tracks – it wouldn't have been o... more info

Mercury News, California — NEW YORK — Within hours of most any concert, shaky and distorted footage of the show can be found online from front row or the balcony. more info

Guardian Music — Canada's finest have produced a hymn to the middle-class motherland, suffused with a Springsteen-esque need to escapePop has always loved a visit to the suburbs, whether in the sleazy undertow of Suede's eponymous debut album or the high-street hellr... more info