Guardian Music — Rita Ora, On tourAs anyone aware of that little-known recording artist Rihanna will already know, Jay-Z sets the bar quite high when it comes to choosing a protege. Their backgrounds are very different (Rita Ora comes from the former Yugoslavia and w... more info

Nialler9 — Today’s new additions to Electric Picnic. Kimbra Cold Specks Of Monsters & Men Lianne La Havas Perfume Genius Richie Hawtin Mark Lanegan Lee “Scratch Perry” & Max Romeo God Is An Astronaut Jeffrey Lewis David Kitt Plays ‘The Big Romance’ �... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Festival 2012 happens all day 4/28 & 4/29 at the Lexington Ave Armory in NYC. The Klein Award is being presented to Gary Panter. The afterparty which is also a Harvey Pekar's... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The ongoing wave of folk-textured songwriting has produced more than its fair share of anaemic, dungaree-clad wannabes. Tom Williams & The Boat are not amongst them. Hailing from Tunbridge Wells, the band's music has plenty of acoustic whims bu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jeffrey Lewis @ Space Ducks party (more by Greg Cristman) Jeffrey Lewis, who is on tour and opened for Pulp on April 11th, was added as the special guest to the Gary Lucas show happening at Joe's Pub on April... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Before heading to Coachella, Jarvis Cocker's band Pulp headlines Radio City Music Hall two nights in a row next wee week - on April 10th with Chormatics and April 11th with Jeffrey Lewis. Meanwhile, Jarvis is already in NYC... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jeffrey Lewis @ BV-SXSW DJ-Space Ducks show (more by Ryan Barkan) Jeffrey Lewis reports:Jeffrey Lewis & his band The Junkyard will open for Pulp at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan on Wednesday, April 11. This mark Jeffrey Lewis &... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — East Village native Jeffrey Lewis is one of underground folk's success stories — and with the unlikely weapon of a wobbly, underdog voice that could almost belong to Peanuts' Charlie Brown. The singer and illustrator, who recently released his sixt... more info

DrownedInSound — Today is Black Friday. I'm not sure why that's significant to those of us who aren't in the the United States but hell, people are going on about it everywhere this week. Or so it seems. Anyway, a couple of things which are ostensibly "for Black Frid... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Christian Science Monitor interviews Jeffrey Eugenides about his new novel, The Marriage Plot. What is the reason for putting so much literary theory at the start of your new novel? There was a lot of literary theory in my... more info