Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Bao Nguyen The nominees for this year's MTV Video Music Awards Breakthrough Video are Anjulie, Bat For Lashes ("Daniel"), Chairlift, Cold War Kids, Death Cab For Cutie, Gnarls Barkley, Major Lazer, Matt and Kim, Passion Pit, and Yeah... more info

The Playlist — When the nominees for the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards we released earlier this week, we were impressed. And mostly because they finally brought back our favorite category, the Breakthrough Video Award which in years past lauded great video filmmakers... more info

JamBase — NEW YORK HOMECOMING IN NOVEMBER Brand New Brand New have announced the release of their new full-length album, Daisy, out September 22 on the band's own Procrastinate Music Traitors, in partnership with DGC/Interscope. The band also announced a ... more info

The Yellow Stereo — This is another prime example of completely missing out on an album, only to discover it through the Daily Graboid.  While putting it together, I came across the song “Arrows” from Reverie Sound Revue, a lovely quintet out of Calgary, Alberta,... more info

JamBase — Images by: Chad Smith Rothbury Music Festival :: 07.02.09 :: Rothbury, MI Billy Nershi Toubab Krewe Quannum Allstars Kid Cudi Cold War Kids Lotus Future Rock Future Rock The Disco Biscuits The Disc... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Kudos to Florence and the Machine for keeping the buzz blisterin' leading up to her debut LP Lungs (releasing next week). Aside from releasing an EP and garnering loads of attention, her skill of creating solid covers has done wonders to keep her na... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — The following feature, memorable to some and completely new to others, started as a way to fuse separate areas of interest into one enjoyable post. It's been exactly a year since I let History Mixery go dormant, but 365 days and two academic semeste... more info

JamBase — Lollapalooza Has Announced Set Times Stage Conflicts Included The Chicago festival has announced the set times of their festival (STS9 gets a 4-5 p.m. slot...wtf?) prompting attendees to ponder which bands they'll be able to catch and who they'll... more info

Rolling Stone — Who: A Brooklyn-based quintet who broke out at this year’s SXSW on the strength of their free debut EP The Infinite Fucking Cross who have since gone on to open for Cold War Kids and MGMT. Bummed with their jobs working as ringtone designers, Will ... more info

The Yellow Stereo — Gorilla vs Bear posted this track from Memory Tapes, which according to the blog is a merging of both Weird Tapes + Memory Cassette — the latter of which, if you remember, I mentioned here and absolutely loved.  The mystery of the identity of th... more info