Live Daily — Jay-Z, Muse and the Gorillaz top the roster of acts for the 11th annual Coachella [ tickets ] Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will take over Indio, CA's Empire Polo Field April 16-18. As tipped by LiveDaily's Backline earlier this month, Pave... more info

Live Daily — Experimental indie-rockers Liars [ tickets ] have set up a short spring tour in support of their forthcoming fifth studio album, "Sisterworld," which is set for release in March. The well-traveled band--which currently calls Los Angeles home but h... more info

MTV.com News — Beck, Pixies, Deerhunter pay tribute to the late upstart, who died Wednesday at the age of 29.By Kyle Anderson Jay Reatard plays the Riot Fest in 2008 Photo: Daniel Boczarski/ Redferns Jay Reatard (real name Jeremy Lee Lindsey Jr.) may not... more info

Silent Uproar — Spoon will release Transference on January 19th via Merge Records. The Texas quartet has announced a supporting North American tour in March and April. Atlanta's Deerhunter will support on all dates. [mergerecords.com] more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Deerhunter @ Outside Lands 2009 (more by Chris Graham) Radio City is not the only show Deerhunter is playing with Spoon. All dates below...... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 03-17 Austin, TX - Stubbs %03-18 New Orleans, LA - Republic %03-19 Birmingham, AL - Workplay Soundstage %03-20 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle %03-22 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club %03-23 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club %03-24 Richmond, VA - The National %03-26 New ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Spoon @ Prospect Park 2008 (more by Chris La Putt) Spoon's new album, Transference, is out January 19th on Merge. The entire album is now streaming at NPR who are also hosting the band at SXSW this year...- For the... more info

NME — Deerhunter and Alan Vega also among artists asked to 'reinterpret' songs more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — You might remember Colin Caufield, aka Young Man, from his YouTube covers of indie darlings Deerhunter (posted on the their blog) Animal Collective, Beach House, and some band called the Beatles. He also writes his own songs, and a few of them are up... more info

Guardian Music — How can you not love a man with a nightclub called Everybody's Beautiful in his basement in Ibiza?As another set of end of decade statistics gets released there's another angry mob ready to aim a heavy boot at the door of popular culture. Sadly they'... more info