Stereogum — Over a career that's seen him evolve from outsider musician to outlandishly infectious personality, Andrew W.K. has covered his pop cultural bases: writing and producing his way through a master list of musical genres, appearing on talk shows and ... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — Squeezing as many songs as possible into 80 minutes in order to summarise the best of a whole year of music is a pretty daunting task involving tough decisions and regrettably obligatory omissions. But after much deliberation, here are my favourite t... more info

JamBase — BEATLES AND KILLERS AND LIPSTICK WEARING MIDDLE-AGE MEN! Jack White - The Raconteurs :: Coachella 2008 by F. Reda Headliners Paul McCartney, The Killers and The Cure are among the 130-plus acts set for the tenth Coachella Music Festival at the b... more info

Stereogum — On the eve of a trip to Australia, Dean and Randy from No Age threw a matinee house party at scene institution the Smell, inviting six bands and a sold-out crowd to come over for some blissed out punk and noise and pancakes. Figuring this lineup w... more info

Stereogum — There's no shortage of Blake Schwarzenbach respect around here, so when we found out the man's new band with Aaron Cometbus and Daniela Sea (of L Word fame) were playing a few shows in L.A. we tried to atone for missing that one show out East by send... more info

Pitchfork — Toyota Yaris and Urban Outfitters may be running the Free Yr Radio campaign due to a good-hearted commitment to underground radio, or they may just be doing it to look cool. OK, whatever, maybe they just want to look cool. But when those two giganti... more info

Pitchfork — The L.A. spazz-punk invasion is not over. No Age buddies Abe Vigoda got a whole lot done last year: They dropped debut album Skeleton, they toured hard, and they made the all-important Diplo connection. And they're still barreling forward. On Februar... more info

MTV.com News — Britney? RPattz? Charlize? Find out what our favorite news segments of the year really are.By Garth Bardsley Charlize Theron Photo: MTV News Spend any time on this site and you'll see that certain names keep popping up: Britney, Robert Pat... more info

Rolling Stone — You’ve read Rolling Stone’s lists of the top albums and singles of the year — but how did the folks who work at RS rank their personal favorites? Here’s editor Kevin O’Donnell’s year-end lists: Albums of the Year No Age - Nouns Ra Ra Riot... more info

DrownedInSound — As part of our year-end round-up we've asked some musicians to tell us what their favourite five albums of 2008 are. Not just any ol' music makers, mind. We've spoken to the creators of some of our albums of this year, as well as some fresh-faced fol... more info