Altsounds — Liberation Music is excited to announce that **Liam Finn** will return to Australia this August to support the release of his highly anticipated new album, **FOMO**. New single **Cold Feet** which just scored **Single Of The Week **in **Beat M... more info

Altsounds — FOMO, Liam Finn's eagerly anticipated second LP has been announced for release on July 4th through Transgressive Records. Ahead of its release, Liam has made a track from the album - 'The Struggle' - available to download for free from his official ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Intriguer is the sixth studio album by alternative pop group Crowded House, released on 13 June 2010. It is the band's followup to the group's 2007 reunion album Time on Earth, and the first to feature all four current band members, including multi... more info

DrownedInSound — Oxfordshire's Truck has been a steady stalwart of the indie music festival scene for a long time now. And rightly so. The organisers of the Steventon-based event have just added a few more names to the 2011 edition, too. Read the full story on ... more info

5 Acts — The Luyas and Liam Finn are playing Red Palace in DC on Wednesday night. Win a pair of tickets by sending me a message at 5actsblog at gmail dot com (use the subject "Too Beautiful To Work"). I'll pick a winner at random at 1:00 pm ET the day of the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Liam Finn "Liam Finn, son of Crowded House frontman Neil Finn, played the Lustre Pearl stage in the gorgeous Waterfront District [during SXSW], a full band backing his passion-rock exhibition. Accenting the end of several of his tracks by attacking..... more info

Altsounds — Last October, The Luyas put together a multi-media experience at Pop Montreal. They transformed the space at Red Bird studios using lighting and sculpture into an entirely new psychedelic world to house their musical performance. Takeaway Show'... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Kurt Christensen "Let's get one thing straight: Crowded House isn't a one-hit wonder. Sure, the Australian band is known by '80s music fans for its 1987 hit "Don't Dream It's Over" (and maybe the subsequent "Something So Strong"),... more info

Altsounds — The mutant love child of southern hemisphere it-kids *Liam Finn*, *Lawrence Arabia*, *Eliza-Jane Barnes*, *Connan Mockasin* and *Seamus Ebbs*, BARB is what happens when five passionately creative friends lock themselves in a world-class studio f... more info

Stereogum — “Leo”’s the opening track from BARB’s self-titled debut. The drums are pleasingly high in the mix — like when Brian Chippendale got tribal with Björk and Antony. You’d think it’s because the quintet features frantic one-man NZ BTW Liam... more info