LargeHeartedBoy — Erlend Oye of Kings of Convenience talks to PopMatters about the band's new album, Declaration of Dependence. The A.V. Club interviews Chuck Klosterman about his new essay collection, Eating the Dinosaur. The Louisville Courier-Journal examines the g... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Wall Street Journal reviews Chuck Klosterman's new essay collection, Eating the Dinosaur. Another media critic, Neil Postman, once argued—in the title of one of his books—that we are "amusing ourselves to death." But Mr. Klosterman'... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — My first drink of CMJ came around 12:30pm yesterday when I snuck over to Pianos for one of their free margaritas. Pianos was playing host to my friends The Music Sluts, and let me tell you those two are much better at coaxing free booze out of places... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 10-31 Philadelphia, PA - Brooke's Juke Joint #11-15 Detroit, MI - PJ's Lager House 11-18 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue ^11-19 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom ^11-22 Cleveland, OH - Beachland01-21 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre ^01-2... more info

The Music Fix — News: After the success of their Spring tour with A Place To Bury Strangers and recent shows supporting Dinosaur Jr on a run of UK/European dates, mind-blowing psych-rock five piece Dead Confederate have announced a UK release for their incredible de... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Doug Martsch is either a very patient man or a perfectionist who can't let go of his songs. The new Built To Spill album There Is No Enemy took three-and-a-half years. He kept rewriting the lyrics, tried another guitar lick, yet another, decided to... more info

Guardian Music — In this week's podcast we head for the States. Actually, we don't. TheMusic Weekly private jet has been impounded. Instead, we made the States come to us. That's just how we roll. First up we have Lou Barlow, the man who founded Dinosaur Jr, then Seb... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Talk Normal photos by Lori Baily Thurston "goes acoustic" @ United Palace Theater in July (more by Bao Nguyen) Sonic Youth will follow up their currently-sold-out November 21st Terminal 5 show (with Dinosaur Jr. and Cold Cave) with a pair... more info

NME Radio — Do you drink too much caffeine? Looking for a suitable alternative to double strength Americano? Then I'd like to personally recommend starting a brand new show on a different radio station on a miserable Monday morning in October. At about 10.10am ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Antony @ Apollo Theater in 2008 (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Atlantic Antic * Lucinda Williams @ Irving Plaza * NY Burlesque Fest @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Dinosaur Jr @ Northern Lights in Clifton... more info