JamBase — BEATLES AND KILLERS AND LIPSTICK WEARING MIDDLE-AGE MEN! Jack White - The Raconteurs :: Coachella 2008 by F. Reda Headliners Paul McCartney, The Killers and The Cure are among the 130-plus acts set for the tenth Coachella Music Festival at the b... more info

Silent Uproar — Conor Oberst has announced a handful of April dates in continued support of last year's self-titled solo album. more info

NME — Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band have announced a limited number of shows, scheduled to kick off April 9 in his home town of Omaha, NE. more info

NME — Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band have announced a limited number of shows, scheduled to kick off April 9 in his home town of Omaha, NE. more info

JamBase — Dark Was The Night (A Red Hot compilation) out February 17 on 4AD Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17, 2009. It's comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double CD/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the ... more info

NME — Merge Records, home to bands including Arcade Fire, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Buzzcocks and Dinosaur Jr, have announced that it is putting on a five-day music festival to celebrate its 20th anniversary. more info

NME — Merge Records, home to bands including Arcade Fire, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Buzzcocks and Dinosaur Jr, have announced that it is putting on a five-day music festival to celebrate its 20th anniversary. more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Tonight may be like any other night with a drink in your hand, gossip to chatter, and friends by your side. Yet tonight something different is going down, literally a giant crystal ball in Times Square, but more specifically the end of the year 2008... more info

JamBase — The last thing we do every year is our annual Best Of list. It's not only our way of reviewing the most gratifying sounds of the past 12 months, but we inevitably always get turned on to something that slipped past our radar. By gathering favorite ... more info

Rolling Stone — You’ve read Rolling Stone’s lists of the top albums and singles of the year — but how did the folks who work at RS rank their personal favorites? Here’s editor Michael Endelman’s year-end list: Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend My Morning Ja... more info