Pitchfork — The 2009 SXSW Music Festival, going down March 18-22 in Austin, Texas announced its first round of bands last week, and now they've expanded that lineup to the point where it now takes like half an hour just to read the names of all the bands partici... more info

Pitchfork — The 2009 SXSW Music Festival, going down March 18-22 in Austin, Texas announced its first round of bands last week, and now they've expanded that lineup to the point where it now takes like half an hour just to read the names of all the bands pa... more info

JamBase — Dark Was The Night (A Red Hot compilation) out February 17 on 4AD Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17, 2009. It's comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double CD/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the ... more info

My Old Kentucky — Papercuts' Can't Go Back was one of MOKB's favorite albums of 2007. San Franciscan Jason Quever's project gained much positive attention last year when he toured with Grizzly Bear, and now he returns this April 14th with You Can Have What You Want. ... more info

Clickmusic — The Brooklyn band to follow up their 2006 album 'Yellow House' this May. more info

Pasta Primavera — Before I start this thing off let me just say that I hate making lists.  I’m more of a pile person.  So you won’t see any numbers in the list of albums, rather my top five followed by my other favorites.  So here it goes. Nada Surf... more info

My Old Kentucky — Sure, there are a lot of obvious records and and artists to look forward to in 2009, but who are the ones that are going to come out of nowhere and knock your socks off? Yeah, normally you might just need to check Gorilla Vs. Bear religiously to fin... more info

Pitchfork — Vinyl records-- I hear they're really coming back! And this little tidbit certainly won't hurt the ongoing wax revival: Animal Collective have announced that they'll issue their highly anticipated banger Merriweather Post Pavilion on 180 gram gatefol... more info

Stereogum — Everyone's sorry! Enough already, we know. A byproduct of leak culture is the inevitable fallout from policing intellectual property rights. This can be interesting. But as suggested by both Avey Tare and State.ie in this new interview, the Web Sher... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — So I probably should've mentioned this last week, but our weekly GvsB SiriusXM radio show is now on Thursdays at noon + midnight EST, instead of Mondays. We weren't canceled, but thanks for all of your concern. The amazing Hipster Runoff radio progr... more info