Big Apple Music Scene — This weekend has some great artists doing DJ sets. The one and only Mark Ronson is DJing the Boys & Girls Holiday Party. It’s happening at Webster Hall tonight (Friday) at 10 pm. $10 advance tickets are here. Also tonight (Friday), Neon Indian, wh... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — On sale now: Ludacris at The Apollo on December 28. Tickets Julian Casablancas has added a second show at Terminal 5 on January 15. Tickets Timbaland at Irving Plaza on January 20. Tickets Handsome Furs at Maxwell’s on January 20. Tickets We Are S... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Neon Indian @ Mercury Lounge (more by Erez Avissar) Neon Indian finished their three-night NYC run with a show at Brooklyn Bowl last night (12/17). Toro y Moi didn't open that show like he did at the two previous gigs... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week we took a magnifying glass to Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009. Most of those songs appeared on albums, which leads us to the site's Top 50 Albums Of 2009. For starters, metal creeps in via Baroness and Sunn O))), but not Mastod... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by Erez Avissar Going by phone/digital camera clips I'd seen online, I wasn't expecting what I got from Neon Indian Tuesday night. This genre called "chillwave" seemed to me all but doomed to ever really work well... more info

Shark Party, CA — All right, you know the drill - 50 best songs of 2009, with one song per album (or else there'd be a hell of a lot less diversity here). Open the links in a new tab to find what I think are the best versions of each track on the net. Now let t... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Monday: The Slits, The Sundelles, + Sisters @ Highline Ballroom 7pm $15 [tix]Amid all the hoopla surrounding the reunions of bands like Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, The Vaselines, Mission of Burma, etc., etc., some of reunions have been los... more info

XLR8R — The eclectic sounds of Toro Y Moi will bring the heat to some select eastern cities, starting tonight in Philadelphia. Perhaps the most highly anticipated dates, though, are back-to-back nights at New York's Mercury Lounge with XLR8R favorites ... more info

Guardian Music — This west Londoner is the latest 'chillwave' ambassador, creating music that is wistful, danceable and utterly irresistibleHometown: Acton, west London.The lineup: Bullion (music).The background: Most scenes or movements are location-specific. One th... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I got a chance to check out the "Brooklyn-via-Providence" electronic duo Javelin twice in November-- the first with The Very Best in Boston's tiny Great Scott venue and the second at a RISD/BrownU show in Providence with Yeasayer. The show with TVB ... more info