NME — Lou Barlow, Chairlift are also on bill for festival more info

Totally Fuzzy — Paul McClelland said...Paul McClelland- "Songs from the Little Pad"From the home studio upstairs in a corner of a room, comes a combination of original music and cover songs with a summer theme to get us thru the hot months ahead. Some of the cover s... more info

Guardian Music — And that's not all. Faith No More's Mike Patton, Spiritualized's Jason Pierce and Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes complete a grizzly, gravel-voiced lineupThe production duo Soulsavers have announced their third album – and yet another team-up w... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — via Whitey Sterling. more info

Guardian Music — From punk fanzine to alt-rock institution, the story of this Chicago indie powerhouse is not just of one record label, but of American underground music of the last three decadesAlternative rock may forever be associated with Nirvana and their early-... more info

Guardian Music — Founded by Califonian punks Dead Kennedys, this indie bastion has braved backlashes and court cases to survive under the sole ownership of their outspoken frontman Jello BiafraEric Reed Boucher renamed himself Jello Biafra in 1978 because he "liked t... more info

Pitchfork — You know, if Trent Reznor was going to go through all the trouble to link up with Jane's Addiction for an alt-rock veterans' tour, would it really have been that much trouble to turn it into a full-blown Lollapalooza '91 reunion? Is Ice-T's acting ... more info

Pitchfork — You know, if Trent Reznor was going to go through all the trouble to link up with Jane's Addiction for an alt-rock veterans' tour, would it really have been that much trouble to turn it into a full-blown Lollapalooza '91 reunion? Is ... more info

Pitchfork — It's a very, very sad day for indie rock. One of America's foremost independent record labels, Touch and Go Records, has announced that they will no longer release new music. They have also shuttered their distribution arm, which manufactured and bro... more info

Stereogum — A post by Brent DiCrescenzo over at Time Out Chicago's Blog seems to confirm rumors we've been hearing this week that the longstanding, highly influential Chicago label Touch & Go is closing up shop. Nothing 100% confirmed, but as DiCrescenzo note... more info