Detroit Free Press — If you're looking for some of the best in artfully gloomy indie-rock, then choose the National, whose doleful but compelling fifth album "High Violet" (*** out of four stars, out Tuesday on 4AD) is perfect for introspective shoe-gazers. Baritone... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Move over wolves, crystals, girls and bears. Caves are cool now. Following in the footsteps of cave granddaddies Cave-In (who recently reunited to cash in on the cave phenomenon) and Nick Cave, there seems to be a sudden influx... more info

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Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonLou Reed has promised "a night of deep noise" based around Metal Machine Music, the notorious hour of howling feedback that nearly killed his career stone dead on its release in 1975. Whatever that means, the assembled audi... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Kylie Minogue is a world-wide phenomena.There can't be any long-time indie-disco kid who hasn't fallen for her charms over the years. If nothing else, nobody can deny that Can't Get You Out Of My Head is a stunning pop record that is a very close cou... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonUnlike his near-contemporary Nick Cave, Triffids frontman David McComb never gained more than a cult following. Perhaps he died too young, at 36, from drug-related complications following a car accident. That was in 1999, as the world... more info

Guardian Music — Could Snoo-Bo be the ultimate daft duet?For those of you who quite like Susan Boyle but feel she has always been slightly lacking when it comes to documenting homies, bitches and how it feels to get high on some "bubonic chronic", good news. Accordin... more info

DrownedInSound — You should have noticed that on our front page there is a trio of reviews of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds records, they being Henry's Dream, Tender Prey and The Good Son, along with a photo of Imelda Marcos. That's because they've been remastered and re... more info

DrownedInSound — Having de-camped to Buenos Aires, and taken on Neil Young’s producer (David Briggs), The Bad Seeds could have been succumbing to rock-star cliché, but Cave found all new inspiration in the favelas, where the local buskers played a kind of s... more info

DrownedInSound — It’s not easy being good, but on this album at least, Cave and the Bad Seeds make it sound almost as alluring as being bad. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info