My Old Kentucky — I have fallen in love with this track from The Delta Mirror, the latest signee to Lefse Records - home of Neon Indian, A Grave With No Name and Tape Deck Mountain. The project consists of Los Angeles-based Craig Gordon and David Bolt. Their forthco... more info

Guardian Music — (Polydor)Ryan Tedder, singer and driving force of Denver's OneRepublic, already has a busy career writing for others (he's the one to blame for Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love), which has eclipsed his own band's achievements. Despite their 2007 soft-rock... more info

Panda Toes — I'm well aware that the vast majority of this world's inhabitants live for the Grindin chart, so it's my great pleasure to give y'all our Best of 2009 chart. And, as you might expect, every last song on the list is spectacular in every sense of the w... more info

Stereogum — The lovable pop of Love Is Not Pop may have been somewhat overlooked this year, although El Perro Del Mar's got fans in high places helping to rectify the situation with folks from Beirut, Fuck Buttons, and Arcade Fire singling out Sarah Assbring's s... more info

8/1 — 1 - Brett Anderson – Wilderness2 - Patrick Wolf – Bachelor3 - PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By4 - Bat For Lashes - Two Suns5 - Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light6 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers7 - Richard Hawley - Tr... more info

Shark Party, CA — All right, you know the drill - 50 best songs of 2009, with one song per album (or else there'd be a hell of a lot less diversity here). Open the links in a new tab to find what I think are the best versions of each track on the net. Now let t... more info

NME — Devendra Banhart and Fuck Buttons also play in Minehead more info

8/1 — 50 Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose 49 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 48 Atlas Sound Logos 47 Telepathe - Dance Mother46 Gallows - Grey Britain45 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter44 Oneida - Rated O43 Franz Ferdinand - T... more info

Pitchfork - TV — Videographers capture the noise warriors live at a recent show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. more info

My Old Kentucky — This is another one of those bands, like say Fuck Buttons, that it has taken me quite a while to warm up to. But, I have! I caught Times New Viking down at Fun Fun Fun Fest, this year, and had a lot fun during the live set. TNV released a new vide... more info