Guardian Music — Last time was all about misheard lyrics. This week, we're heading down the local. Get your orders in ...Depending on your inclination, last week's shift of topic showed either remarkably quick thinking on my part or disgraceful policy-making on the h... more info

Guardian Music — This week, you weighed in with your favourite mondegreens – misheard lyrics that may or may not improve the original"Bye bye love, bye bye happy nurse, hello lonely nurse"; "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"; "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie/ Put your hands ... more info

Pitchfork — On debut EP The Years, the young Guelph, Ontario duo Memoryhouse layer reverb over wistful, bittersweet hooks and minimal drum machine tics like a more fresh-faced Beach House. Evan Abeele, a student of classical music, originally intended Memoryhous... more info

The Music Fix — News Flash: Shoegaze a go-goAs one of the major players in the UK's original shoegaze scene, Cranes were one of the first rock bands to put the seaside town of Portsmouth on the musical map (it says here!). With parallels drawn with Cocteau Twins an... more info

Guardian Music — The Sigur Rós frontman tries something a little different at lastThe world divides into two kinds of people: those who believe you can divide the world into spurious, discrete camps, and those who do not. For the sake of argument, though, let's pr... more info

Guardian Music — (Rocket Girl)The German electronic musician and producer has been in demand since blending 1990s-style shoegaze with a dash of minimal electronica on albums like 2007's Goodbye. His tracks have turned up on computer games and car ads; two of his reco... more info

Guardian Music — First started as a so-called test lab, 4AD produced Cocteau Twins and the Pixies - it was a breeding ground for goth, pan-continental post-rock and much more besidesIn 1980, 4AD set out to supplant the nihilism of punk with an atmospheric, esoteric n... more info

Pitchfork — The uber-cool Cologne dance label Kompakt has announced that they will be distributing the new label Tri Angle, run by Robin Carolan, a writer for the British music blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats. The label will devote itself to a genre of music so new th... more info

Guardian Music — Inspired by hip-hop's screwed brigade, drag's heavy atmospherics and tormented outlook are pure musical entropyWhen Salem first stepped from the shadows in late 2007, people had fun describing their creepy and creeping sound: screwgaze, cave crunk, g... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I'm conciosus that more people have discovered TVV over the past 12 months or so than ever before, and it's a very fair bet that not many go back too far in the archives, especially as the mp3s attached to the writing have long been made unavailable... more info