Kings of A&R — Having just finished touring with Eric Benét and Marsha Ambrosius on the M.E. Tour, rising pop artist Jessica Jolia released Want You that comes off the upcoming album Hearts & Daggers. Citing Stevie Wonder, Prince, Chaka Khan, Miles Davis as influ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — So now we've covered the best tracks of the year so far on a month by month basis, let's move on to the longform stuff. Feel free to remind us of these come the end of the year when something else from these six months overtakes the lot. Algi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Spiral Stairs new album, Doris and The Daggers, is out today (3/24). While his old band Pavement was never much for emotions, this is easily Spiral's most heart-on-sleeve record -- with songs on love, parenthood, death, and other relatable issue... more info

Stereogum — Spiral Stairs, better known to many of us as Pavement co-founder Scott Kannenberg, is getting ready to release the new solo album Doris & The Daggers. We've already posted two of its songs: "Dundee Man" and "Dance (Cry Wolf)," the latter of which fea... more info

Obscure Sound — On the moving opening track off their new album Leaving Town, “Disease”, Swedish acoustic rock/experimental pop group IVANNA shine a spotlight on the spirited and soaring vocals of Ludvig Sersam, as well as their exotic and moving acoustic-minded... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — 'Doris and the Daggers' features appearances by Matt Berninger of The National, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Justin Peroff, as well as Kelley Stoltz and Shudder To Think's Adam Wade. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Spiral Stairs -- aka Pavement cofounder Scott Kannberg -- is releasing his first solo album since 2009's The Real Feel. It's called Doris & The Daggers, and per Pitchfork it features a number of guests including the National's Matt Berninger, Broken ... more info

Pop Crunch — China’s culture and America’s culture are about as far removed from each other as it’s possible to be. Yet, both nations have at least one thing in common – beautiful women. In fact, it’s fair to say that there are a huge number of Chinese ... more info

Stereogum — From “Black Soap” to “White Noise,” the songs we’ve heard from shoegazey NYC pop-rock duo Ex Cops’ new album Daggers have been very promising. Now’s our chance to check out the whole thing (which was executive produced by Billy Corgan a... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — For years, mainland China has thrown the big-budget movies of its most-heralded directors into the Oscars' foreign-language film race. Zhang Yimou, known for "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers," has had seven shots at the Academy Award as China's re... more info