Pitchfork — This year's Pitchfork Music Festival comes to Chicago's Union Park July 16-18, and the lineup is already ridiculously stacked: Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Raekwon, and plenty more. And now it's time to fi... more info

Mercury News, California — Beach House, the hot indie band, is on the cutting edge. more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Baltimore slowcore duo Wye Oak have followed up last year's The Knot with a new EP, My Neighbor/My Creator, available now on tour and digitally from Merge's website (the record will be released April 20 through other digital outlets, and in physical ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Brian Reilly "GIRLS doesn't yet have the power to sell-out Webster Hall, a feat fellow indie giants BEACH HOUSE accomplished in days. But it sure as shit looked like they sold that bitch out, the last row's backs... more info

Pitchfork — On debut EP The Years, the young Guelph, Ontario duo Memoryhouse layer reverb over wistful, bittersweet hooks and minimal drum machine tics like a more fresh-faced Beach House. Evan Abeele, a student of classical music, originally intended Memoryhous... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 03-30 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House #04-01 Pontiac, MI - Pike Room #04-02 Chicago, IL - Metro #04-03 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater #04-04 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center #04-05 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room #04-06 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Saloon #0... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 04-22 Richmond, VA - The National04-23 Richmond, VA - The National05-05 London, England - Electric Ballroom 05-06 London, England - Royal Albert Hall 05-07 Paris, France - Le Zenith *05-08 Berlin, Germany - Huxley's Neue Welt05-09 Berlin, Germany - A... more info

DrownedInSound — Beach House and Django Django win the red rosettes this week, while some predictably harsh words are doled out to Scouting For Girls and any band who decide to ruin Animal Collective's 'My Girls'. Is this what the end of the world sounds like? Don't... more info

Guardian Music — Gorillaz hit London (29-30 Apr, Roundhouse, NW1, livenation.co.uk) with guests including Bashy, De La Soul, Kano and Little Dragon and Mos Def …Air, Florence + The Machine, Mystery Jets, Noah And The Whale, the Temper Trap and the xx are among ... more info

NME Radio — Thanks partly (mainly) to an LCD Soundsystem exclusive last week there was a distinct rise in the amount of listens to the show, so thanks to anyone who checked it out, commented and passed on links or recommendations to others*. Extra special th... more info