Pitchfork — Earlier this year, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James (or, as he prefers to be known these days, Yim Yames) produced Dear Companion, a collaborative album from fellow Kentucky singer-songwriters Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore. The album raised ... more info

Guardian Music — The most influential song of 2010? Don't Stop Believin'? Tik Tok? Bad Romance? Er, no, it's 10cc's I'm Not In LoveAs editor of the Encyclopedia Of Popular Music, Colin Larkin is a man who knows more about pop than anyone has any need to. And, on page... more info

MTV.com News — 'It was really cool to feel the emotions of someone else,' frontwoman says of connecting to Kristen Stewart's character.By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer Metric's Emily Haines Photo: MTV News It's not exactly breaking news w... more info

Stereogum — After Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, and Grizzly Bear & Beach House made soundtracks to multi-million dollar hormonal-teenage-vampires-in-love franchises a safe place for indie artists to premiere their wares, you had to figure more folks from S... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Lambchop's Kurt Wagner talks to the Chicago Sun-Times about the John Prine tribute album, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, which features Bon Iver, Josh Ritter, the Drive-By Truckers and others covering the singer-songwriter.. The ... more info

Some Velvet Blog — Denton, Texas singer-songwriter Doug Burr is bringing new ideas to the "tradition" of the singer-songwriter. Like Tweedy, Ray LaMontagne, Jim James, Conor, Bon Iver, Josh Ritter and The Low Anthem's Ben Knox Miller, Burr may draw on the past yet he c... more info

Guardian Music — You'll never drop a hipster faux-pas again with Tony Naylor's pronunciation primerBack in ye olden days of TV and radio, everyone knew how to pronounce bands' names. We had DJs, presenters and – for problematic monikers – the BBC pronun... more info

Pasta Primavera — Minneapolis duo Peter Wolf Crier and their debut album Inter-Be made their way onto my ipod a few weeks ago and its been REALLY hard to stop playing this album (sorry for the overplay workmates). Remember that first time you heard Sea Wolf or The Dod... more info

Guardian Music — (Righteous Babe)Hitherto a deft but minor songwriter, Anaïs Mitchell arrives in major style with this "folk opera", an inspired retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Depression-era America. It really is an opera, with the cream of A... more info

Pitchfork — Tom Krell leads a double life. During the day, he's a research fellow currently translating a book of "post-Kantian philosophy" in Cologne, Germany. But after work he's making narcotized, below-fi R&B as How to Dress Well. In October of last year, Kr... more info