Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Haunted Hearts: DeeDee & Brandon Haunted Hearts, aka Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls and Brandon of Crocodiles, released their debut album, Initiation, last year. A labor of love (and concept album about S&M) for this real-life... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Late last year, Azar Swan released their second album, And Blow Us a Kiss, which adds some serious Kate Bush vibes to the duo's electro-goth-tribal MO. You can stream the whole album below. The vinyl version of... more info

Stereogum — Night Terrors Of 1927, the synthpop duo of Rilo Kiley/The Elected’s Blake Sennett and the Honorary Title’s Jarrod Gorbel, released their awesome, Killers-meets-Postal Service single “When You Were Mine” last fall. Now that their debut album E... more info

Stereogum — The former Pains Of Being Pure At Heart drummer Kurt Feldman just produced Dum Dum Girls’ holiday single “On Christmas.” Feldman also leads Ice Choir, the synthpop quartet whose 2012 debut album Afar continues to sound pretty great. And Ice Cho... more info

Stereogum — If there’s any such thing as a not-great Christmas-themed synthpop song, I haven’t heard it. For whatever reason, Christmas and synthpop bring out the bittersweet best in each other. Dum Dum Girls aren’t usually a synthpop band, but they try th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Deer Tick @ Forest Hills Stadium in September (more by PSquared) Deer Tick, IamSu! and Dum Dum Girls are part of a free new holiday EP being released by Converse Rubber Tracks titled Noise To The World 2. It's being... more info

MTV.co.uk News — The rock ‘n’ roll frontwoman has a message for her fellow AllSaints campaign stars… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Zombie Dum Dum Girls @ Brooklyn Bowl (via @donstahl / @soundbitesnyc) Dum Dum Girls played a Devil's Night show at Brooklyn Bowl last night (10/31) and, as a band that clearly enjoys Halloween, Dee Dee, Jules, Sandy and Malia played... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Liturgy at Pitchfork Fest 2012 (more by James Richards IV) Dum Dum Girls at Burger A-Go-Go 2014 (more by Debi Del Grande) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Austin Kleon shared a "manifesto for reading." Stream the trailer for the documentary R.E.M. by MTV. Vita.mn interviewed Dee Dee Penny of Dum Dum Girls. Poet Billy Collins shared his love for Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" at the... more info