Guardian Music — Forget Lily, Pixie and Florence, this year's Brits should be about Male BondingReading the Brit awards nominations is a depressing affair. The major labels and their well-documented fiscal failings have served up another year's worth of vacuous, real... more info

MTV.com News — Hope for Haiti Now album is #2 after selling more than 300,000 copies total.By Gil Kaufman Lady Antebellum's Need You Now Photo: Capitol Grammy-winning country act Lady Antebellum released their second album, Need You Now, at just the r... more info

Allmusic Blog — Motion City Soundtrack’s new album My Dinosaur Life could be called punk-pop. It could be called emo-pop. It could be called emo-punk-pop with rainbow sprinkles. How about we just call it awesome pop music filled with huge sunshine-y hooks, punchy ... more info

MTV.com News — 'We decided it's time to get back in the studio and do what we do,' he tells MTV News.By James Montgomery, with reporting by Larry Carroll Blink-182's Mark Hoppus Photo: Ethan Miller/ Getty Images Mark Hoppus has heard all the talk about t... more info

Detroit Free Press — MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK: After a trio of albums for Epitaph Records, this Minneapolis quintet made its big-label debut with last week's Columbia release "My Dinosaur Life," a Mark Hoppus-produced record that's piling up dazzling reviews for... more info

Guardian Music — Don't pay any attention to their name – these north London newbies are not yuck at all, they're pretty good, sounding like a shoegazey Sonic YouthHometown: London.The lineup: Jonny (drums), Daniel (vocals, rhythm guitar), Max (lead guitar), Ma... more info

Detroit Free Press — After a trio of albums for Epitaph Records, this Minneapolis quintet made its big-label debut with last week's Columbia release "My Dinosaur Life," a Mark Hoppus-produced record that's piling up dazzling reviews for its blast of infectious... more info

ContactMusic — DINOSAUR JR. frontman J. MASCIS has formed a new supergroup with members of WITCH and COBRA VERDE.Sweet Apple was inspired by former Cobra Verde star John... more info

Chorus.fm — According to Hits Daily Double, *Motion City Soundtrack (http://absolutepunk.net/motioncitysoundtrack)* is on pace (http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=93171) to sell between 28-32K copies of My Dinosaur Life in ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Absofacto: "The Breath and the Bell" [mp3] other Absofacto posts at Largehearted Boy Brian Jonestown Massacre: "Let's Go F**king Mental" [mp3] from Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? other Brian Jonestown Massacre posts at ... more info