Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG In the live interview that took place before Hellride East (aka J.Mascis and Murph of Dinosaur Jr, and the guest of honor for the evening Mike Watt) hit the stage, Watt told rock critic Byron Coley about his... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — On Record Store Day 2012, Times pop music critic Randall Roberts waited in the line at Vacation Vinyl to score music by Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr., Lee Hazlewood, Circle and others. more info

Guardian Music — There's a sun-kissed, slothful energy to this one-man band's infectious music that evokes the sound of late-70s power popHometown: Worcester.The lineup: Shaun Hencher (vocals, instruments), plus live band.The background: On Friday, we interviewed New... more info

Totally Fuzzy — A couple years ago, Built To Spill bassist Brett Nelson launched the Electronic Anthology Project, a passion project that reimagined Built To Spill’s songs through the aesthetic of New Wave bands like Talk Talk and Men Without Hats. The record con... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Flavorwire creates a literary mixtape for To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch. Classics Rock! lists tributes by musicians to author Harry Crews. ToneDeaf interviews Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and Folk Implosion. The Foster's Daily Democra... more info

Guardian Music — A Vancounver-based blogger writes about 'a life in love with music'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Mikala Taylor and my site's called BackstageRider.Where are you based?Vancouver, Canada but I have a lot of readers in the US and the UK.De... more info

Guardian Music — Koko, LondonNow that every MacBook is an Abbey Road studio you can destroy with one fumbled Frappuccino, it can seem as though 87% of Americans have become frazzled troubadours knocking out no-fi fuzz-folk albums in the hope of bagging the ultimate U... more info

Guardian Music — Each week we invite a reader to tell us about the songs they've been listening to recentlyEach week we'll be inviting a reader to share with us a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. This week it's Thomas Doyle. If you like the cut o... more info

Guardian Music — Our indie professor is so indie she signed up for a holiday on a boat with Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Weezer. And she's such a professor, she wrote an end-of-term report about it ...One of the things I love about a destination festival is that it takes... more info

Guardian Music — It's easy to assume Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe are a couple, such is the implied intimacy of their debut albumHometown: London.The lineup: Kacey Underwood (guitar, vocals) and Alice Costelloe (vocals, guitar).The background: Another day, ano... more info