WFMU's Beware of the Blog — (Primavera photos courtesy Shannon McLean) In getting WFMU over to Barcelona for the Primavera Sound broadcasts in 2009 and 2010, we've sort of come to recognize that there are a lot of elements at work in deciding whether or not... more info

Pitchfork — WHAT: Twilight Concert SeriesWHEN: July 8 - August 26WHERE: Salt Lake City, UTWHO: Modest Mouse, Big Boi, She & Him, the New Pornographers, Beirut, Girl Talk, Dum Dum Girls, Memory Tapes, Avi Buffalo, Twin Sister, the Dodos, Jamie Lidell, Sharon J... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Todd Cole Thus far, the Los Angeles dream-punk duo No Age has only released one proper studio album. We here at Pitchfork gave that album, Nouns, a 9.2 and named it our #3 album of 2008. So news of a new No Age album is a big deal around t... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-03 Calgary, Alberta - Royal Canadian Legion #1 07-31 London, England - Field Day Festival 08-04 St. Petersburg, Russia - Tanci 08-06 Moscow, Russia - Solyanka 08-08 Myslowice, Poland - OFF Festival 09-11 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival ... more info

Mercury News, California — After a lengthy retirement from the music scene, Pavement is back '” and bigger than ever. more info

Pitchfork — Jenny and Johnny, the duo of Rilo Kiley leader Jenny Lewis and her singing-songwriting boyfriend Johnathan Rice, are getting ready to drop debut album I'm Having Fun Now. Lewis' Twitter suggests that the LP will hit the streets on August 31, thoug... more info

Pitchfork — In a recent Pitchfork interview, funny guy David Cross talked about the similarities between musicians and comedians: "There's quite an overlap between musicians who have an affection towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being in a band,"... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Williamsburg Waterfront - June 20, 2010 (pic by Eric Polow) Band of Horses had a busy weekend: Friday night they played Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, Saturday they opened for Broken Social Scene and Pavement on Toronto Island, and... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano As the sun hid its face behind the island's ring of trees, Pavement took to a Toronto stage for the first time in a decade. The crowd was a little diminished at this point. Presumably, Toronto didn't... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "With a horn section behind the already several-member group, Broken Social Scene began with 'World Sick' off their new album Forgiveness Rock Record and then 'Stars And Sons,' the latter with fans clapping repeatedly on cue as six guitarists jammed.... more info