Rollo & Grady — Sub Pop is offering a free 25-song digital sampler (click here). Some of the artists on the sampler include – Nirvana, The Dutchess and the Duke, Dum Dum Girls, Vetiver, Grand Archives, Flight of The Conchords, Ben Sollee, and Beach House. The site... more info

The Independent — On Thursday, the most blogged artists of the moment according to music blog aggregator The Hype Machine were Swedish pop group jj, Texas band Spoon, and New York rock group Vampire Weekend. Other bands making the list include American indie duo Beac... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming the new Beach House album, Teen Dream (out January 26th), in its entirety. NPR is also streaming the new Charlotte Gainsbourg album (co-written with Beck), IRM (out January 26th). The Guardian Books Blog compares apocalyptic literatu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Small Black - Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix) (MP3) Washed Out/Ernest Greene... [January 26th] sees the release of a SMALL BLACK / WASHED OUT split 7"! Unless you've been living under a rock/don't know what the internet is (that's... more info

Stereogum — If you're already a fan, you've heard the dusky Baltimore dream-pop duo's magnificently lush third full-length, but it's never too late to experience their Teen Dream, currently streaming at NPR. more info

Live Daily — Jay-Z, Muse and the Gorillaz top the roster of acts for the 11th annual Coachella [ tickets ] Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will take over Indio, CA's Empire Polo Field April 16-18. As tipped by LiveDaily's Backline earlier this month, Pave... more info

MTV.com News — Pavement, Faith No More, Thom Yorke, Vampire Weekend also on the bill.By James Montgomery Jay-Z Photo: Raymond Boyd/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images Coachella has always been seen as the least traditional of the big U.S. music festival... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Beach House's devastating new full-length, Teen Dream, comes out next week on Sub Pop. It's been quite a while since we've felt this immediately affected/enthralled by an album -- Person Pitch comes to mind -- and the incredibly nuanced, heartachingl... more info

Guardian Music — Find out why the world and his wife (ie quite a few bloggers) are getting excited about the new Beach House albumEveryone, it seems, is talking about the new Beach House album. And everyone, it seems, is saying very nice things. The Baltimore duo rel... more info

NME — Listen to the album in full exclusively on NME.COM more info