Indie Selections For Your Erections — Wow, first week of August! Even though I threw together this playlist relatively quickly the previous night, I think this show turned out really well. It consists of three main blocks: a female vocalist blo... more info

Impose Magazine — People treat bands like The Clean, The Chills, and Tall Dwarfs with a reverence normally reserved for the divine. Drop the term 'Kiwi rock' into any music discussion, and watch everyone around you begin to glow. The label that has defined this sound ... more info

Indie Selections For Your Erections — This week’s show was extra long, given that I filled in for the DJ with the show after me. Four hours in a radio station is a long time! Thus this week is cut into two different blocks, as one four hour mp3 is a bit insane. I played a bit m... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jay Carney ...and he likes Hendrix and knows his facts too. Check out this video (via).... more info

Music For Ants — I was lucky enough to see Guided By Voices near the beginning of their reunion tour last year and I greatly enjoyed myself, so I was delighted to have the chance to watch them one more time as they near end of their “classic line-up” shows. The O... more info

Impose Magazine — Pitchfork's annual music festival took place this past weekend in Chicago. Here are pics from Friday, July 15 with the usual suspects like Animal Collective, Guided By Voices, and James Blake. See more images from this post. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo Neko Case Bob Pollard of Guided By Voices James Blake The 2011 Pitchfork Festival continues through Sunday at Union Park in Chicago. Some of it is streaming online. A set of pictures from Friday continues below...... more info

Altsounds — *Novella* are London-based Sophy Hollington, Hollie Warren and Suki Sou. They met in Brighton and formed the band in February 2010 after they all moved up to the capital. After spending months in each other's bedrooms writing and listening to bands l... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Guided By Voices at McCarren Park (more by Tamara Porras) After resurrecting Guided By Voices last year, it seems that Robert Pollard is putting them back to bed, and soon.According to a statement by Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — At The L Magazine, musicians explain why Guided By Voices still matter. Guernica interviews Lynne Tillman about her new short story collection Someday This Will Be Funny. The online list of 2011 summer reading lists has been updated with Jezebel's... more info