Aquarium Drunkard — (Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) It’s science: We live in the Age of the Sad Song. Bright melodies, major chords, and “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah-isms” are greeted with suspicion by our ... more info

DrownedInSound — Dept. of Disappearance is a good album that makes for a pleasing listen, despite its lack of ambition. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Consequence of Sound — Wait, didn't Grandaddy break up? Yes and no. more info

ContactMusic — Jason Aldean is already sitting pretty at the top of the country music singles charts, with ‘Take A Little Ride’ and this week, he’s looking to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Band of Horses at Central Park last month (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Band of Horses released their new album, Mirage Rock, last month (9/18) and celebrated it in NYC with a release show at House of Vans, soon after... more info

Guardian Music — (Epitaph)Since dissolving Grandaddy in 2006, Jason Lytle has been living in the mountains of Montana "recording nerd-style, geeked out in the house with the headphones on". His music has always been a strange combination of grandeur and humility, it... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Reuters reports that a museum devoted to pop group ABBA will open in Stockholm in 2013. The New Yorker and Telegraph profile author Hilary Mantel. NPR is streaming the new Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) album, Dept. of Disappearance (out October... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The former Grandaddy singer's songs are as sweetly sad as they are comical, and as intimate as they are epic. Lytle simply tells stories — mostly fictional tales that offer listeners little moments of fantastical escape or quiet reflection. ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Grandaddy at Outside Lands - 8/12/12 (via Jessica S.) Grandaddy, who reissued their first three albums on vinyl in 2011, fully reformed this year and kicked off with a reunion show at the intimate Partisan in Merced, CA under the... more info

Consequence of Sound — Lytle plugs the instruments in. more info