Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the recently-added Phoenix / Passion Pit show at Central Park Summerstage. Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Rodrigo y Gabriela show happening at Terminal 5. Tickets are on sale for the... more info

My Old Kentucky — Cymbals Eat Guitars are providing all sorts of fabulous free content for you lately. They just gave away a free mp3 download of a new song, and now, thanks to Louis Sparre, The Cutting Room Studios & KEXP, here is a great in-studio video performance... more info

Stereogum — This performance of "Wind Phoenix" for KEXP, from Staten Island upstarts Cymbals Eat Guitars' buzzed about debut LP Why There Are Mountains, does well to capture their progress as a live band: the moments where the horizon-busting guitars and fluid, ... more info

Rolling Stone — Adam Goldberg is painfully aware of the disadvantage facing actors who try their hand at music. For every success like Jared Leto’s 30 Seconds to Mars or Zooey Deschanel’s She & Him, there’s Russell Crowe’s 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and Joaquin P... more info

Culture Bully — The group delighted their growing Twin Cities fan base this week by playing a very sold out 80 minute show to a highly appreciative audience at a sweltering Varsity Theater. The set, bookended by the two songs that are helping them reach this new aud... more info

VH1 News — "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" earned $55 million on its opening day Wednesday, surpassing previous record-holder "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." more info

Live Daily — Lyle Lovett [ tickets ] has tacked more dates onto his summer run with his Large Band and added an acoustic fall outing alongside John Hiatt to the end of the schedule. The award-winning singer/songwriter will kick off the return to the road with ... more info

Battery In your Leg — When I used to DJ every week at a dirty club in central Phoenix, there was this nice old gal who’d be there from around 8PM-10PM, just sitting around the bar and shooting the breeze with the bartenders & locals. She was a little rough, with a smoke... more info

NME — Bands will play LA’s Greek Theatre on September 16 more info

Altsounds — MySpace Music is pleased to announce an upcoming Secret Show featuring Phoenix and Amazing Baby at The Record Bar in Kansas City, MO, on Wednesday, June 24. The Secret Show performance will be held exclusively for MySpace users, who were notified via... more info