Thrash Hits — Thrash Hits TV: Cancer Bats @ Sonisphere Festival 2009 more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Relive this past weekend's Newport Folk Festival at NPR, with streaming audio of performances by Fleet Foxes, Pete Seeger, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, and many other artists. Pitchfork reviews the new Fruit Bats album, The Ruminant Band. PopMatters exp... more info

Rawkblog — Best of 2009: Counting down the rest of the year’s most anticipated albums. Jams: A Fruit Bats First Look, the new Bible-thumping Mountain Goats single, She & Him live on KCRW. Photos: My press photos for L.A. up-and-comers The Whisper in the Roar... more info

Kerrang! — Kerrang! The Album '09 will be released through Rhino on August 3. A monstrous 42 track, double CD collection, the album features K! legends such as Green Day, Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, key tracks from some of 2009's finest releases and the cream... more info

Rawkblog — Tweeviews: Criticism in 140 characters or less. For more, follow me on Twitter. Charming but water-treading folk-pop. Solid in, say, 1972 but dated now – not the step forward dudes needed. Stick with Beachwood Sparks. Fruit Bats – “The Ruminant... more info

Said the Gramophone — Fruit Bats - "Tegucigalpa" The family's all here, in the warmth and the green. Grandpa's got the word-of-mouth disease, but he's holding up, and holding a beer. Aunt Gayle is addicted to assholes and sits practicing her smile. Benny is a cousin and ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Black Whales: "Books on Tape" [mp3] from Origins other Black Whales posts at Largehearted Boy Fruit Bats: "The Ruminant Band" [mp3] from The Ruminant Band (out August 4th) other Fruit Bats posts at Largehearted..... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Here's the title track from Fruit Bats' upcoming fourth album The Ruminant Band:[MP3] Fruit Bats - The Ruminant BandFruit Bats have always unfortunately been dismissed by some as another Shins-esque band on Sub Pop's label of other Shins-esque bands,... more info

Stereogum — Being the newest full-time member of the Shins is enough to keep anyone's hands full, but Eric D. Johnson has no intention of pausing the Fruit Bats project, his Sub Pop band that will release its fourth full-length this summer. The collection's titl... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Zakk said...Day 10 of our Summer Series on the Sixties brings you The Small Faces. There are two compilatins (from both Decca and Immediate periods) plus a collection of BBC recordings, We celebrate 40 years of Allman Brothers Band with Hour Glass, t... more info