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

Altsounds — NXNE announces 14 incredible concerts in Toronto this summer. The festival kicks off on June 14 and runs until June 20, 2010. Tickets are now available online at NXNE 2010 | June 14 – 20 | TORONTO CANADA (http://www.nxne.com). Presented by Virg... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — It's one of the most beautiful and iconic settings for a summer series in the city: at the perch of the Sepulveda Pass, overlooking Los Angeles to the east, the Pacific to the west, the traffic on the 405 to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Fucked Up - Here Lies Are (MP3) Fucked Up @ MWTX in Austin (more by Andrew Frisicano) Lineups for Brooklyn's Northside Festival are coming together-- and some of the bigger shows (that aren't at Music Hall) are going to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "Like last year, everything will be taking place in Williamsburg and Greenpoint because walking long distances is a drag when there are bands to see and beer to drink, we mean seriously. Us here at The L Magazine will be... more info