Pitchfork - Forkcast — Only a few days until Rising English punk band Male Bonding's full-length debut, Nothing Hurts, drops on Sub Pop. We've already given you a taste of the album through the noisily yearning "Year's Not Long" (which also scored a BNM over at the Play... more info

Radio Exile — On this week’s Dirty Laundry TV, Malia chats it up with UK “noise pop makers”, Male Bonding. The band dishes on their Vivian Girl connection, signing to Sub Pop and going deaf, so be sure to pick up their new album (Nothing Hurts) on May 11th ... more info

DrownedInSound — As you may have noticed, we like not insights into the minds of music makers but to hear more about the lives and times. Tour diaries, photo-diaries and all tha' is all well and good but call us 'old skool' but we love letters and postcards from band... more info

NME - Festivals — It’s 9pm on Saturday night and I’m in dingy Dingwalls, all geared up for one of the most-hyped draws of the Camden Crawl: Best Coast. After months of reading they’re going to save the solar system with their 60s garage rock I’m expecting some... more info

The Music Fix — They bag Blood Red Shoes tour too! more info

Altsounds — Nothing Hurts is the Sub Pop debut and first full-length for London-based trio Male Bonding. Scheduled for release on 10th May 2010, the album was recorded in the fall of 2009 in New York and was mixed and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sou... more info

Guardian Music — With songs that last less than three minutes, this London trio prove that succinct doesn't suckHometown: London.The lineup: John Arthur Webb (guitar, vocals), Kevin Hendrick (vocals, bass), Robin Silas Christian (drums).The background: Length isn't e... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Matthew Field -- The upcoming Hollywood Bowl schedule is getting ridiculous. Along with the previously announced Pavement/Sonic Youth/No Age gig September 30, they've got Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, and Girls down for Sept. 18,  Vampire Weeken... more info

Pitchfork — What: The Great EscapeWhen: May 13-15Where: Brighton, EnglandWho: Broken Social Scene, Wild Beasts, the Big Pink, the Walkmen, These New Puritans, Surfer Blood, Here We Go Magic, Morning Benders, John Talabot, Sleigh Bells, the Fiery Furnaces, Warpai... more info

Stereogum — The buzzing, dusky “Pay For Me” comes from Dum Dum Girls’ Record Store Day split with labelmates, London trio Male Bonding. Right, it’s “pay” not “pray.” Either way, it fits well with I Will Be’s outlaw themes and leather jackets. L... more info