NME — Manager Tom Sarig in dispute over headhunter fee more info

NME — Birthday set from 1997 also includes a spot from Robert Smith more info

Gigwise — 'Birthday Celebration - Live in NYC 1997'... more info

Stereogum — In a photo spread titled “Ballad Of A Thin Man” and subtitled “Godfathers Of Glam” and basically boiling down to “Someone Old, Something New,” this Sunday’s T Mag juxtaposed the exquisitely preserved mortal coils of a few elder rock god... more info

NME — Lou Reed and Patti Smith also confirmed for Kent event more info

Gigwise — Festival announces more acts... more info

Guardian Music — With a new outlook, new drummer and some nice new shirts, Noah and the Whale are ready to meet the world head on. But their penchant for self-doubt hasn't left them entirely'What's that line?" Charlie Fink frowns. "'She was 15 years old and she'd ne... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako February Stone curators Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson played their own show at the venue on 2/15. Buke and Gass opened the night with four songs, and then later joined Lou and Laurie during their set... more info

Impose Magazine — We approved of the trio from south Indiana when they dropped their debut single back in September. Enter the follow-up. Apache Dropout's self-titled LP is a half-hour of southern fried dialects babbling out hazy proto-punk, utterly blazed boogie down... more info

NME — Artist follows in footsteps of Jarvis Cocker and Lou Reed more info