Stereogum — Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff. Makes sense: Those genres and/or sensibilities can result in great... more info

Stereogum — The German ambient pop crew's "Come In," not a Palace Brothers cover, offers an intimate, warmly downcast entreaty over metallic percussion, electronic beats, and strings. Hear it at HypeM. (It's also available on a City Slang 7" b/w Grizzly Bear's "... more info

Allmusic Blog — Appropriately for the final year of the decade, 2009 seemed to be the 2000s in microcosm. Every trend of the past 10 years surfaced over the past 12 months: dance divas with irresistible singles mingled with the electro-pop and art-punk vanguard with... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP hits stores tomorrow, and along with an import Grizzly Bear vinyl single, While You Wait for the Others, will be my only new release purchase as I focus on completing my holiday gift... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP hits stores tomorrow, and along with an import Grizzly Bear vinyl single, While You Wait for the Others, will be my only new release purchase as I focus on completing my holiday gift... more info

The Yellow Stereo — With many musicians/bands (Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Broken Social Scene to name a few) providing music to films recently, it would come as almost no surprise that a trend is starting to begin, or continue rather, of these high-profile collabora... more info

Guardian Music — The leaders of America's underground scene end the year with a dose of panpipes and a nod to the Grateful Dead, writes Kitty EmpireLady Gaga dominated pop's spotlit uplands in 2009. Having released her Fame album in January, she ended the year with e... more info

The Playlist — Not a first look exactly (the image made the rounds when the festival was announced), but the Sundance Film Festival preview for Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine" starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams has an interesting soundtrack connection ... more info

Rawkblog — Go vote! Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Phoenix are in a dead heat for, well, everything. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — NPR and Stereogum both posted results of listener/reader polls. At Stereogum the contest is known as the Gummy Awards (an annual event). NPR titles it, "All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009". Both lists rank "Best... more info