The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — It's amazing how much busier I am during the holidays than I am during the regular part of the year. Here's a quick list of what's to come.Here are The 11 Most Anticipated Albums of 2009 (Jan-Mar):1. Spoon - Transference (Jan. 19)2. Vampire Weeken... more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about new beginnings. As you stagger home from welcoming in 2010, we want your pick of songs about the morning afterHa-ppy Noo Year! My best wishes to you in 2010 written in my best New York gangster accent.This week's topic is, I a... more info

Said the Gramophone — Woodpigeon - "Music Belongs To Those Who Make It". This is, I presume, a song about the music business's empty suits. (And not, I hope, the biz's bloggers.) But Mark Hamilton's artistic license, his sticking guns, aren't represented in roaring shou... more info

NME — Texan band set for shows in both January and March more info

Rolling Stone — Hanson have announced a five-night residency at New York’s Gramercy Theater in April 2010, where the brothers will alternately perform one of their five albums in its entirety, including their upcoming new LP. Plus, Yeasayer set out in support of t... more info

Nialler9 — Texas’ Midlake released a limited 500-run 12″ this week. Serving as a double-taster of their forthcoming third album The Courage Of Others (out February 1st) and a teaser of what to expect from their Valentine’s Night gig in Vicar Street, The... more info

BBC 6 Music — The band tell 6 Music they scraped a whole album before they were happy more info

Stereogum — Midlake really did it this time. It's not to say the Dentonites spent every last second of the past three years working exclusively on their long anticipated followup to 2006's Trials Of Van Occupanther -- drummer McKenzie Smith's done time with S... more info

8/1 — Midlake, yenisi The Courage Of Others ile dönüyorMP3: Midlake - Rulers Ruling All Things MP3: Midlake - Acts of Man more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Two anonysmus sources were cool enough to link me to two leaked Midlake songs! The songs are both new from their upcoming 2010 album The Courage Of Others. The songs are “Acts Of Man” & “Rulers Ruling All Things”. They are both pretty songs t... more info