8/1 — MP3: Cat Power - The GreatestMP3: Grizzly Bear - Knife/Heartbeats [Grizzly Bear vs. The Knife by PARRKA] MP3: Camera Obscura – French NavyMP3: The RadÄ°o Dept - David MP3: The Mary Onettes - Puzzles MP3: Matmos - Rainbow FlagMP3: The Big... more info

Guardian Music — Last week you suggested songs about coming home. Now we want to hear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Candle you handle it?What with everybody coming back from holiday, last week's task of choosing songs about coming home turned ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — strahinja said...PATTI SMITH – Easter (1978)SONGS OF THE ROLLING STONES: All Blues’d Up (This Ain’t No Tribute Series) (2002)BRYAN FERRY – These Foolish Things (1973)CHER – All I Really Want to Do / The Sonny Side O... more info

Rawkblog — If John Vanderslice hadn’t once told me that “guitars and marijuana love each other,” I would’ve described Midlake’s The Trials of Van Occupanther as ol’ JV smoking a few bowls and throwing on his Time-Life: AM... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — Episode 43 of The Mix Tape Podcast is now available for download!The front two this week are filled with Calvin Harris, who makes a welcome return with a some strung-out disco/trance called 'I'm Not Alone', and Kid Cudi who gets the Kanye treatment w... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — From the burgeoning sea of remixes that fail to leave a lasting impression, two musical magicians emerge - Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve. Erol Alkan (Producer of Late Of The Pier's Fantasy Black Channel and Mystery Jet's Twenty One) and Richard Norris d... more info

Stereogum — Almost two years after the release of Marry Me, St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, is back with her sophomore album this May: It's called Actor and she co-produced it with the pAper chAse's John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Thermals, Smog, Polyphonic Spree... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 79: Jean Michel Bernard - Gene... more info

Stereogum — We rarely conduct interviews at Stereogum. Bands inevitably answer the same questions over and over again, and that's no fun for anyone. But if we could catch our favorite musicians between album promo cycles, they might have new insights to share, w... more info

Twangville — Dallas Texas doesn’t get near the acclaim or pub that its more trendy neighbor to the south gets in Austin. In fact, Denton Texas seems to get more love than Dallas, thanks to the emergence of indie faves Doug Burr, St. Vincent & Midlake. The New... more info