71 Lily Allen 87 Amadou & Mariam 68 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 89 Animal Collective 52 The Answer 80 Antony And The Johnsons 60 The Appleseed Cast 72 Arbouretum 73 India. Arie 69 Asobi Seksu 80 Dan Auerbach 68 The Bad Plus 71 Beirut more info

Music Mule — Apologies for the lateness of the post but I’m in the French alps with limited Internet access. I’m going to throw in two Saturday tracks this week as a way of making up to you faithful MM readers. There are some great new tracks from Delphic, As... more info

Pasta Primavera — Tonight in Baltimore we can’t complain because we  have Arbouretum, Happy Salmon, and The Existencils playing the Zodiac as well as dd/mm/yy, Rahi Rahi Replica, Magic Missile, and The Shackeltons playing the Talking Head.  Down in DC Deleted ... more info

Pasta Primavera — Another day another crazy night here in Baltimore.  If you want to see a show there’s plenty to go around.  First up Asobi Seksu, Tyvek, and Thrushes play the Ottobar.  Also The Jaguar Club, E Joseph and The Phantom Heart, The Jennifers, a... more info

Instrumental Analysis — When I saw the calendar for the weekend, I initially thought that Joe was out of his skull and put down shows for the wrong dates. Then after some quick fact checking, I found the truth. Every band and their mothers, uncles and 3rd cousins once rem... more info

Music Mule — mp3: Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light Now I won’t be the first to write about Asobi Seksu in an exciting manner (they’ve been around since 2004) but it’s great when a band you think you’re going to love gives you a reason to do just that. They we... more info

NME — Asobi Seksu performed a strong set in the hot afternoon sun on the final day of the South by Southwest Festival yesterday (March 21). more info

Rawkblog — Jamz: Took a First Look at Grizzly Bear’s stunning Veckatimest. Live: Saw Bell and Asobi Seksu at the Troubadour and Tindersticks at the Henry Fonda. Camera Obscurist: Captured Tree Man bringing Tolkien to Venice. And while you’re here, a questio... more info

Rawkblog — All photos by David Greenwald Bluntly, Bell is a charming but second-rate Bjork; worse, she seems to have arrived to the party just in time for Medulla. Frontwoman Olga Bell unleashed the same volcanic vowel affectations as her Icelandic counterpart ... more info

Rawkblog — All photos by David Greenwald In my review of Asobi Seksu’s shoegaze skin-shedding Hush, I praised the band for bringing Yuki Chikudate’s agile voice to the forefront and banishing the sturm und drang of their previous records. This was before th... more info