Gorilla vs. Bear — Another great clip from Yours Truly, featuring a song from the Morning Benders' forthcoming LP, Big Echo (which was co-produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor). "Excuses" is the album's brilliant opening track, and this soaring "Wall of Sound" perfor... more info

Quick Before It Melts — With only four songs on their debut EP, Guelph Ontario’s Memoryhouse have been attracting a lot of attention south of the border from some of your go-to blogs of indiedom.  Most likely, they’ve been attracted to the duo’s stately cover of Gr... more info

XLR8R — The recordings for Jamie Lidell's forthcoming third album, Compass, started down in Los Angeles while he was working with Beck on the artist's Record Club project (essentially a group of musicians coming together for an impromptu covering o... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Who were far from the only rock band to take part in Super Bowl Sunday. Acts such as the Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear were featured in advertisements debuting during the big game. Caught by surprise, however, were the... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — First in a new thing I'm going to do, rounding up the days goings on in a few handy links. Hopefully this way I won't miss much of what is going on but won't have to spin a full post out of tiny internet morsels. Here goes nothing...Liam Gallagher ha... more info

NME — Wilco and Gonzales also appear on 'Compass' more info

Stereogum — Yep, that was "Two Weeks" you heard during the ad where Stevie Wonder hard-knock punched Tracy Morgan, Slug Bug style. But who were the old dudes covering the CSI theme at halftime? Check the Grizz and Arcade Fire spots ads at Videogum. more info

Stereogum — Last time we saw Jamie Lidell, he was helping Beck (and Feist, some Wilco folks) reinterpret Skip Spence's Oar. The favor's been returned: Beck, Feist, and Pat Sansone of Wilco show up on Lidell's third full-length Compass. In fact, the way it's s... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I'm not really sure there is another television event where the commercials get more hype than the actual main attraction, save for the Super Bowl of course. Although I feel like the humorous and memorable commercials aren't as frequent as they used... more info

The Culture Of Me — Godspeed! more info