Pitchfork — This December, long-silent Canadian instrumental churn-rock titans Godspeed You! Black Emperor will return, curating and headlining ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas festival, which comes to Minehead, England December 3-5. Today, the ATP folks annou... more info

Guardian Music — These New York punkers may have a rubbish name but with tracks like Underage Drink Forever and Puke Song what do you expect?There's a new band in New York City. Of course, there are a lot of new bands in New York City, but a good chunk of them belong... more info

Pitchfork — -- Every year, The Village Voice (full disclosure: my old employer), hands out the Obie Awards, recognizing achievement in off-Broadway theater. This year, Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merrit won an Obie for the music and lyrics he wrote for th... more info

Guardian Music — (DFA/EMI)The sleeve notes to Big Black's astonishing 1987 album Songs About Fucking may be among the most entertaining in rock history. Amid frontman Steve Albini's descriptions of his songs' charming subject matter – including the Columbian neckti... more info

XLR8R — Last summer, Soundscreen Design debuted The Artist Music Journal, a limited-run book series. read more more info

Stereogum — Then years ago Sebastian Blanck co-founded the aggressively experimental noise outfit Black Dice, along with brothers Eric and Bjorn Copeland and Hisham Bharoocha. Blanck and Bharoocha moved on: Hisham once a member of Lightning Bolt, later launching... more info

Guardian Music — The new album from the Television Personalities songsmith confirms that he is the poet laureate of working-class LondonSometimes pop music surprises me. Who would have thought MGMT were big Television Personalities fans? I was shocked to see they had... more info

Pitchfork — -- Shout! Factory is set to re-release the currently out-of-print classic punk rock films Rock 'N' Roll High School (starring the Ramones) and Suburbia on DVD May 4. -- Members of Double Dagger, Black Dice, Soft Circle, and Lungfish contribute to Sou... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Sebastian Blanck is a singer-songwriter/accomplished painter from NYC. He is releasing his debut album, Alibi Coast, on Rare Book Room Records on June 22nd. Sebastian actually used to be a member in Black Dice ten years ago. Don’t let that fool you... more info

Pitchfork - TV — — This video from Black Dice's Copeland looks like what would happen if your television ate mushrooms. more info