Big Apple Music Scene — These shows are on sale NOW: 3/30 - DD/MM/YYYY / WAVVES - Mercury Lounge Tickets 4/8 - THE ALTERNATE ROUTES - Mercury Lounge Tickets 4/16 - THE WALKMEN with Beach House - Webster Hall Tickets 5/13 - WYE OAK / POMEGRANATES - Mercury Lounge Tickets ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Beach House @ MHOW (more by Zach Stern) WAVVES has added a 3rd NYC show to his previously-announced itinerary. The new date is March 30th at Mercury Lounge with DD/MM/YYYY and Vampire Hands. Tickets are on sale. The other NYC... more info

Stereogum — The Baltimore duo did a slow and non-Queen-like cover of Queen's "Play The Game" for Dark Was The Night . It was left off the compilation proper because of licensing issues, though it can be had as a bonus track when you purchase the collection via ... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — The best from around the blogs all in one post...An early recording of The Beatles “Revolution 1” leaks…Phoenix releases “1901” the first single of their new LP Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix…1901 - Phoenix / YSIMGMT sue... more info

8/1 — Beach House yepyeni bir Queen cover'ı ile geri döndü. Play The Game adlı ÅŸarkı ayrıca Dark Was the Night adlı yardım albümüne bonus olarak eklendi. MP3: Beach House - Play The Game more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Beach House's hazy and haunting cover of Queen's "Play the Game" was inexplicably left off of the physical release of the recent Dark Was The Night charity compilation, only to be later tacked on as an "album only" bonus track that can only be had at... more info

My Old Kentucky — Daniel Bejar (of Destroyer), Four Tet, Extra Golden, Death Vessel and Dan Friel, the front man of Parts & Labor, will all play WIUX's Culture Shock this year. The fest will take place on April 18th in Dunn Meadow. Early reports had Deerhunter playi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear return May 25th with a new album Veckatimest (pronounced veck-ah-tim-est) , the follow up to the 2006's critically adored 'Yellow House'. Featuring contributions from Beach House's Victoria Legrand and... more info

Pitchfork — -- Kelly Groucutt, bassist for ELO during their 1970s heyday, died of a heard attack on February 19, according to his official site. Groucutt was a core member of the group from 1974-1983-- that's his jaunty line on "Mr. Blue Sky". The AP reports th... more info

JamBase — FIRST FULL-LENGTH IN THREE YEARS OUT IN MAY Grizzly Bear will release Veckatimest on May 26 on Warp Records. The title, pronounced "VECK ah TIMM est," is taken from a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Massachusetts. Some of new songs w... more info