Guardian Music — (Polydor)Among the ranks of platinum-selling singer-songwriters whose music ends up wafting around commercial breaks and dinner parties alike, Leslie Feist cuts a unique figure. Her music has been used to flog everything from Silentnight mattresses t... more info

Impose Magazine — Green Label Sound's Darren Williams, better known as Star Slinger, has released his first "official" single. First single? How is that just now happening for such a successful hip-hop artist and producer? Well, Williams has been mixing and remixi... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew talks to the Daily Texan and Pitchfork about the band's hiatus. Marjane Satrapi talks to the National Post about the live action film adapted from her graphic novel Chicken with Plums. Paste lists 15 novels... more info

Impose Magazine — FYF Fest took place in LA's State Historic Park on Saturday, September 3. Our photographer captured great sets from Broken Social Scene, Cults, Cold War Kids, The Head & The Heart, Japandroids, Pink Mountaintops, and Yacht. See more images fro... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield The strong double bill that can be abbreviated as TVOTR/BSS hit WW in Brooklyn last night (9/8). More pictures from the show and both setlists, below...... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Broken Social Scene @ FYF Fest on Saturday (more by Nathanael Turner) today in NYC * Fashion's Night Out * Das Racist @ UCB East * Andy Statman @ Barbes * The Dolphin @ The Stone * Biz Markie (DJ)... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Nathanael Turner Descendents Punk rock long ago transcended class, age, gender and ethnicity to become a signifier not necessarily of outward rebellion but of the symbolic, crazy-on-the-inside variety. That sense of internal defiance contin... more info

Guardian Music — The first single from the Canadian singer's fourth album, Metals, is a slow-burning, jazzy numberIt's been four years since Feist's commercial breakthrough with her third album, The Reminder, a relatively low-key LP that was sent stratospheric when s... more info

Stereogum — This week we’ve got new videos from Hooray For Earth, Broken Social Scene, Tyler, The Creator, and White Lies. I included the Calling All Cars and Border Surrender videos because they both featured long slow-motion foot chases but the latter video ... more info

Stereogum — Bijou Phillips stars in this surprisingly graphic video for Broken Social Scene’s “Sweetest Kill,” where the actress hacks apart the body of her former lover. It’s kinda like that opening Rick Ross’s scene in “Monster,” except the actua... more info