Guardian Music — The new wave of vaguely miserable, web-friendly music for loners proves its makers need some sunshine and vitamin CAs the recent end-of-year and ones-to-watch lists have shown, the personnel may change but there's always a sense of déjà vu: there a... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — NME's Leonie Cooper reviews this week's singles, featuring Pulled Apart By Horses, James Blake and The Ting Tings Pulled Apart By Horses [...] Read more! more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Vaccines @ Escape to NY 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Speaking of even more bands that NME loves, The Vaccines, who are twitter friends with Howler, and part of the recently announced Coachella lineup, just announced a NYC... more info

Stereogum — The Brit Awards are the UK’s annual equivalent to the Grammys, and our British friends have a way of making their award-nominations lists look just slightly cooler than ours. And this year’s list of nominees, which was just announced, is positive... more info

Guardian Music — Full list of all the artists nominated in categories for this year's awardsBritish male solo artistEd Sheeran (Atlantic Records/Warner Music)James Blake (Polydor/Universal Music)James Morrison (Island/Universal Music)Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird... more info

Guardian Music — With a compelling backstory that might even be true, Willis Earl Beal is hollering the blues so well XL has snapped him upHometown: Chicago.The lineup: Willis Earl Beal (voice, instruments).The background: Willis Earl Beal is the male answer to Cold ... more info

Guardian Music — Here are the 10 contenders for one of British pop's 50 most covetable awards. But who is your favourite?Once again, it's time for the Guardian first album award, our prize for the best British debut of last year. The 10 contenders from 2011 take in d... more info

Rollo & Grady — Image edited by Ben Kramer Yesterday we posted our annual feature in which our favorite artists list their top albums of 2011. Today we’ve enlisted some of our favorite music bloggers, music supervisors, comedians, DJs, journalists, and various ind... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher James Blake at MHOW in October (more by Amanda Hatfield) The 22nd Annual Benefit Concert for Tibet House US is taking place this year at Carnegie Hall on February 13. Philip Glass, who is the artistic director... more info

Discobelle.net — New Yorker turned Angelino Gina Turner transforms the James Blake track “The Willhelm’s Scream” into a moody techhouse stomper. more info