Pitchfork — Last year, the mega-popular Twilight franchise included some of indie rock's big dogs on the New Moon soundtrack: Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear and Beach House, a Bon Iver/St. Vincent collab, and on down the line. Well, the trend continues on the soundtra... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Oh how I would love to be the fattest man at a music festival, so fat that it's hard to tell whether I'm face up or face down when I recline in the grass. As you can tell, today's kind of a slow day so far (although we do have a brand new podcast th... more info

Stereogum — After Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, and Grizzly Bear & Beach House made soundtracks to multi-million dollar hormonal-teenage-vampires-in-love franchises a safe place for indie artists to premiere their wares, you had to figure more folks from S... more info

Pitchfork — Front page photo by Lindsay Rome On the title track from his new album Compass (listen here), soul singer Jamie Lidell sounds worn. His voice is noticeably scratchier than on anything from his two previous solo albums, 2005's future-funk expo Multipl... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 06-08 San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord06-09 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland06-13 Denver, CO - Walnut Room06-15 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall06-16 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo06-17 Montreal, Quebec - Club Lambi06-20 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Waterfront *... more info

Guardian Music — The summer's top musical gatherings where you can experience the great outdoors, curse the rain, dance all day and enjoy an Angolan vegan-fusion barbecueAll Tomorrow's PartiesThe music festival season kicks off this weekend with an antidote to mud an... more info

Pitchfork — With rents and crowding and subway service interruptions, living in New York City can be a massive pain in the ass. But one of the great reasons to live in the city is the wealth of outdoor concerts that come to town every year-- and a lot of them ar... more info

Pitchfork — Click here to find a "aleatory and combinatory remix" of Grizzly Bear's "Foreground" by France's Phoenix. But this "remix" isn't a traditional redo as much as it's two YouTubes side by side-- one of "Foreground" and one of a selection from Brian Eno'... more info

Nialler9 — Archive 2003 – 2006, a collection of unreleased songs from Department of Eagles will be released in mid-July. Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Fred Nicolaus make up the group who released the gorgeous In Ear Park in 2008. Listen to a song f... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — There are certain places around the globe that, when funds permit, I'm hopping on the next flight out to go visit. While my list only seems to be getting longer as time passes (no thanks to the MAP installments), New Zealand has certainly been a mai... more info