Stereogum — Next year, on March 28th and 29th, Burger Records will host their fourth annual Burgerama Festival in Santa Ana, California. The lineup this year is massive for what was once a fairly local and unknown cassette label: Weezer, Ariel Pink, Ty Segall, F... more info

Stereogum — SXSW has announced the second round of artists that will be making their way to Austin in March. The list includes Twin Shadow (who revealed he would be playing the festival earlier this month), Gang Of Four, Father, Lydia Ainsworth, King Tuff, Surfe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis the current Gang of Four Last time UK post punk band Gang of Four, came through NYC (2011, when they released the not-bad-at-all new album, Content), they were back down to just singer Jon King and guitarist Andy... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — I don’t want to talk about the Mekons. There are plenty of hardcore devotees out there who will be more than eager to tell you everything: how the Mekons are possibly the most prolific college radio act ever, how they started as snotty-nosed art st... more info

NME — Bands including Sky Larkin, Esper Scout, Love Buzzard and Cattle have contributed to the release more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Menace Beach are from Leeds, the same English City that that also birthed Hookworms and Eagulls (and Gang of Four and Sisters of Mercy). Named after an old NES game, the band's sound owes a little to... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The start of a very occasional series takes as its key point the obvious and undeniable fact that the list of NME covers on Wikipedia is the very best page on the internet. But why stop there? Why can't we chart the whole of pop culture by rise a... more info

Topix — Behold the merger of rock & roll and skateboarding culture! Behold an essential link in Austin's punk rock timeline! Behold the license to "go start your own band" without Xeroxing the Ramones! "Punk funk" was already airborne when the Big Boys cut t... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here. The Leeds-based melodic punk band Eagulls are not the sort of group that seems to be comfortable inside the corporate shit-show of SXSW. (Revisit their handwritten ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Off the post-punk group's forthcoming EP. more info