Sweeping The Nation — Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but whe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Justin Townes Earle, Burna Boy, The Original Misfits, The Psychedelic Furs/James, Carly Rae Jepsen, Riceboy Sleeps, Los Campesinos!, and more tour-related news. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Having celebrated their 10th anniversary on tour last fall, Los Campesinos will be back in the US to play Chicago, Cleveland, Brooklyn and Austin in July. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Ten years after their release, Hold On Now, Youngster and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed serve as a sort of time capsule of break ups, band t-shirts, and faded Polaroids; live, Los Campesinos! sound just as resonant and vital as ever. Continue readi... more info

Stereogum — When British indie collective Los Campesinos! announced a reissue campaign and North American tour for their first two albums -- the brilliant one-two punch of Hold On Now, Youngster... and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, which both saw release in 2... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman's 50th anniversary performance of The Byrds' 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' Subhumans, Khruangin, Sheer Mag, Jonathan Richman, Lebowskifest, Windhand, WWPJ, Kali Uchis, Of Montreal, Goblin 'Suspiria' and mo... more info

Consequence of Sound — They'll be joined byexciting, female-fronted upstarts Illuminati Hotties and Adult Mom. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tiny Engines bands Illuminati Hotties and Adult Mom will support. Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — 10 Jane Weaver - Modern KosmologyWeaver's ninth album is the one on which she hits full stride, a kind of retro-futurist analogue motorik that's as happy to drift as charge, hypnotic and uncomfortable in equal measure to sound like it's n... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Looks like we made it to the end. We close with ten years ago, another of those years right at the end of this survey in which it's driven more by what STN was writing about at the time then what else was happening as the alternative rapidly segr... more info