DrownedInSound — You may have noticed a little less news than usual this week. There is very good reason for this and that's because our news editor was off drinking Viking lager on a press junket in Iceland. Here's a little round-up of the bits of 'news' from the we... more info

The Quietus — Root For Ruin set for September release more info

Gigwise — LP is set to drop in September... more info

NME — 'Root For Ruin' is due out on September 13 more info

Pitchfork — Theatrical Brooklyn spazzes Les Savy Fav still bring their brain-melting live shows to stages around the world on the regular, but the band hasn't released a studio album since 2007's Let's Stay Friends. On September 14, the band will release Root... more info

Pitchfork — -- "Radio Happy Hour", a New York variety show, is celebrating its first birthday with a free mixtape of performances from the show. It features the Hold Steady, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Cursive, Tapes n' Tapes, and Andrew W.K., among othe... more info

Guardian Music — All the news that's fit to link•Is that Barack Obama at 1.01 in the video for Tag Team's Whoomph There It Is? (via Gawker)•Good news alert: a new Les Savy Fav album may be on its way (via DiS)•This clip features Perez Hilton, a sample of both D... more info

Pitchfork — From September 2, 2010 through February 6, 2011, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina hosts a new exhibition called "The Record", which aims to "explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary ... more info

DrownedInSound — It was 2007, we had a Labour government and Twitter hadn't fully taken hold of the nation's consciousness just yet. That was when Les Savy Fav released their most recent album, Let's Stay Friends, but the good news today is that there's a new one on ... more info

NME — Band recording in New York with producer Chris Zane more info