Brooklyn Vegan — (photo via @lightintheattic) Tickets for The Swellers' last NYC show at The Studio at Webster Hall go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Xiu Xiu and Yvette show at Glasslands go on sale today at 10 AM.... more info

NME — The band will release their fifth LP on October 27 more info

NME — The band's fifth LP follows last year's 'Dear Miss Lonelyhearts' more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The L.A.-via-Long Beach rock band Cold War Kids always tried to find poetry in their noisy, sad blues-punk. For four albums, they made harrowing little vignettes of doomed relationships spiked with soul-man vocal yelps and lonely reverb. more info

Time — Get ready to make a long trek to Washington state this summer, because the Sasquatch! music festival has announced its lineup and it’s an unusually strong line-up. Soundgarden, Outkast, Kraftwerk and the National are all on the bill for the 2014 Sa... more info

Time — Madonna will introduce persecuted Russian art collective Pussy Riot when they make their first U.S. appearance at a concert in New York City on Feb. 5. The original Material Girl will introduce Masha and Nadya (full names, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhd... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Imagine Dragons, the Flaming Lips, Cold War Kids and Colbie Caillat are among eight acts confirmed to play a new-generation Human Rights Concert benefiting Amnesty International on Feb. 5 at the Barclays Center in New York. more info

Consequence of Sound — Featuring a lost and lonely man-pig. more info

Chorus.fm — Head to the replies to watch *Cold War Kids* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/coldwarkids)' music video for "Tuxedos." more info

Topix — Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life - especially that wall above the register, where they keep the serious stuff. more info