Big Stereo — When you wake up and realize you are the last person on earth, “Ultra Violence and Beethoven” might be the optimal choice for your personal soundtrack. There’s a new world/new birth feeling to this one. Baby Monster makes me think of the beginn... more info

Stereogum — Following his excursion into Downtown NYC via Velvet Underground & Nico , Beck takes his Record Club to Montreal with a track-by-track smothering covering of Songs Of Leonard Cohen. As we mentioned when we posted "Suzanne," he's joined by "Devend... more info

8/1 — 150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days144 - Robert Wyatt Co... more info

Pasta Primavera — New York’s Amazing Baby first tugged my ears when they opened for MGMT a ways back.  They sent over a few demos (that were sweet), but somehow I never posted on them (A TRAVESTY!).  Well they have since released an album, Rewild, which you ca... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Phish.com It’s tradition for Phish to cover another artist’s classic album in its entirety on Halloween — and for fans to furiously debate which LP the band will choose in the weeks before the big show. This year, the Vermont quartet is ... more info

Rock Sellout —    The Pro(g)hibition There is only one creature out there more obsessively passionate, fiendishly dedicated and flamboyantly expressive than a Muse fan and that’s haters of Muse and their fans.  I guess this is inevitable from two perspectives... more info

The Playlist — A Ray Tintori-directed video for the Boy Crisis single "Dressed to Digress" has surfaced on YouTube, and features the dance-rock hipster absurdists bopping around with some '80s-tastic babes, dancing while skydiving, and combining the walk-next-to-sl... more info

Chorus.fm — *MGMT* (http://www.myspace.com/mgmt) was recently on Yo Gabba Gabba. Video in the replies. Submitted by deeze more info

Stereogum — Last year we told you MGMT were set to appear on season two of Nickelodeon's Yo Gabba Gabba! as space Vikings performing a song called "Art Is Everywhere." We weren't lying, but it took some time to track down the footage via an obscurely tagged Y... more info

Guardian Music — With his effervescent and gloriously sun-drenched songs, bedroom boffin Washed Out perfectly captures the evocative new wave of surf rockHometown: Perry, Georgia. The lineup: Ernest Greene (vocals, computers). The background: There has been a steady ... more info