Gigwise — Band announce 10-date jaunt... more info

Pitchfork — WHAT: NXNEWHEN: June 14-20WHERE: Toronto, OntarioWHO: Iggy and the Stooges, De Le Soul, Mudhoney, Les Savy Fav, Japandroids, HEALTH, Surfer Blood, Cold Cave, Wavves, the Raveonettes, Man or Astro-Man?, Zola Jesus, Best Coast, X, Warpaint, Avi Buf... more info

Allmusic Blog — 1991 may have been the Year Punk Broke but 1992 was the year the '90s truly began. Nevermind Nirvana, there was an explosion of alt-rock classics, beginning with a clutch of grunge classics from Seattle -- the aftershocks of Nirvana's success being P... more info

Altsounds — NXNE announces 14 incredible concerts in Toronto this summer. The festival kicks off on June 14 and runs until June 20, 2010. Tickets are now available online at NXNE 2010 | June 14 – 20 | TORONTO CANADA (http://www.nxne.com). Presented by Virg... more info

All About Jazz — There are no chairs to sit in when you listen to music at the Crocodile. An open floor has always worked best for the kind of music and audiences the famous rock club is known for. Since opening in 1991 the Belltown club closed late in 2007 and reop... more info

Pitchfork — Record Store Day, your opportunity to cop tons of exclusive music from your local independent retailer, will arrive on April 17 this year. Sub Pop has announced a whole mess of RSD releases. We've already reported that about Beach House's Zebra EP... more info

Stereogum — Velvet Davenport are an interestingly weirdo, backward-glancing psychedelic Minneapolis sextet who, judging from their bloody Happy Ending album art, don't mind conjuring the Dwarves and/or Mudhoney even though sonically they're more in line with war... more info

Guardian Music — Forget Lily, Pixie and Florence, this year's Brits should be about Male BondingReading the Brit awards nominations is a depressing affair. The major labels and their well-documented fiscal failings have served up another year's worth of vacuous, real... more info

Guardian Music — The makers of Rock Band have launched an online store, allowing any act to upload videogame versions of their songs – providing they can afford itFrom Belle and Sebastian to Micachu and the Shapes, any artist can now upload their songs into th... more info

Guardian Music — The label that gave us grunge is now releasing music from west Africa. But for a generation raised on the Afrobeat stylings of Vampire Weekend, this may not be as strange as it soundsIt may never entirely shake its reputation as home of lumberjack sh... more info