Guardian Music — Gorillaz and Thom Yorke closed California's Coachella festival though some stranded British acts were unable to appearGorillaz and Thom Yorke brought California's Coachella festival to a close last night, despite travel chaos caused by the cloud of v... more info

Guardian Music — Cult video-maker Chris Cunningham unveils his ambitious live show to Sean O'HaganChris Cunningham is almost 40 but he looks uncannily like a teenager. He is tall and stick-thin, with the unhealthy pallor of a bedroom recluse. In the squat-like sittin... more info

Rolling Stone — In its final week on the Web, the Rock Daily blog went out with a bang as we checked out four awesome Coachella warm-up reunion shows: Pavement’s first U.S. reunion concert, Faith No More’s powerhouse gig at San Fran’s Warfield, the return of P... more info

Pitchfork — Fire up your wallets: tomorrow, April 17, is Record Store Day, the holiday that helps keep the independent vinyl emporiums of the world in business. As in years past, scores of bands and labels are helping out, sending exclusive material to indie sto... more info

Stereogum — Last night Pavement readied themselves for Coachella, playing their first U.S. reunion-tour show, a 31-song set at the Fox Theater in  Ponoma, CA. The Middle East opened, but people were there for Malkmus & Co. (People like Britt Daniel, Rob Pope,... more info

Rolling Stone — “I’d say it’s nice to be back,” remarked Bob Nastanovich not long into Pavement’s show last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California. “But I’ve never fucking been here before!” True enough, Bo... more info

Stereogum — Last night, Late Night vets Spoon delivered two Transference tracks to Jimmy Kimmel. Their recent tourmate Bradford Cox sat in on guitar (and guest smiles) for “Who Makes Your Money,” but exited the stage for the “Is Love Forever?” web exclus... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — In a way, the worst thing that could have been happened to a shaggy dog crew like Pavement was to be crowned as legends. The forever unfazed five-piece have been kicking around the bloated corpse of rock star idolism since... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "One of the best pavement concerts ever... At the fox in pomona... 30 songs u missed it..." - SANDY EGGO "2 encores, ALL of Slanted (pretty much), and new lyrics to The Hexx." - Karina Longworth "Sorry Coachella. Pavement played... more info

All About Jazz — SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GIGAN-TA-FEST STARTS TOMORROW! With the mass migration to Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, CA already in full swing, we thought we'd offer up some recommendations amongst the rich assortment at this year's Coachella Music Festival (... more info