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
Silent Uproar — Team Love, the record label founded by Conor Oberst back in 2003, has established The Team Love Library. According to the label: "each month (or so) we’ll be rotating the Library’s selections, featuring different Team Love albums as... more info
Pitchfork — The eagerly anticipated compilation Dark Was the Night, curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National to benefit the Red Hot Organization, has now completed its all-star lineup, and man, is it impressive.
As previously reported, Dark Was the Nig... more info
Pitchfork — The eagerly anticipated compilation Dark Was the Night, curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National to benefit the Red Hot Organization, has now completed its all-star lineup, and man, is it impressive.
As previously reported, Dark Was the Nig... more info
Buzzgrinder — :: Conor Oberst recently sat down with NPR for a Q&A session. I didn't listen, but I'm assuming it's about playing vapid music, what's it's like to be overrated, hair care and making melodramatic teenage girls swoon. You know, that old horse. [link, ... more info
Paste Magazine — Upon perusing the list of
"T"-named blogs
participating in
NaBloPoMo
today, I was struck by the number of titles that, purposefully or not, seemed ripped right from the back of a Bright Eyes album cover. Indeed, in Conor Oberst's ten years as Bri... more info
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