Pitchfork - Tours — 06-04 Athens, Greece - Sync Festival06-06 Paris, France - Villette Sonique Fest06-11 Rijeka, Croatia - Hartera Festival06-16 Lisbon, Portugal - The Lux06-18 La Coruna, Spain - Sonar Fest 06-19 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar Fest 07-02 Arendal, Norway - Hov... more info

Altsounds — On 23 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment release the “Acoustic & Electric Live” Blu-ray by The Pixies [Cat. No. ERBRD5063]. This is the first Pixies release on Blu-ray and features extensive bonus features. The Pixies are one ... more info

Pitchfork — Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival kicked off its first day with sets from Broken Social Scene, Pavement, the xx, Titus Andronicus, the Books, Fuck Buttons, Moderat, and more, as we reported yesterday. On Day Two, things got... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Eirik Lande Memorial Day weekend is here in just a few hours, which means summer unofficially starts right about now. Among many other awesome things, that means we're now heading straight into summer festival season. If you've got the t... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — So this is it? This is what we've been waiting three years for? In a rather lackadaisical and unexciting move compared to the viral campaign that brought us Noreen Bauble and 1-866-NEON-BIBLE, Arcade Fire announced their new album The Suburbs via a... more info

Totally Fuzzy — -nits- said... floetry-floetic (2002) not only was i blown away by the debut album of marsha 'the songstress' ambrosius and natalie 'the floacist' stewart, aka floetry, i was knocked senseless and left breathless when i had the pleasure of seeing the... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Yukon is the brainchild of Dutch producer, arranger, composer and bass player Hans Weekhout scored a big hit in the Nineties as Capricorn with 20Hz. His arranging and producing skills didn't go unnoticed and he worked with Prince and Falco. With an... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Earlier this month, we gave you the heads up on Surfer Blood's pigfuck side project Weird Wives. The band just posted their third EP on their blog, and the two-song "release" boasts improved fidelity and Pixies-ish hooks not too dissimilar to the dud... more info

XLR8R — If you happen to be in Europe, it would probably be a smart idea to head to Barcelona next weekend for the Primavera Sound festival. Along with big names like The Pixies and Lee "Scratch" Perry, the festival is also hosting some XLR8R favorites like ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Pinhead said... Red Red Wine On A Sunday #31 - Buck Hill Here's the Playlist: King Of The Surf Guitar, Dick Dale, King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale And His Del-Tones Miserlou, Agent Orange, Living In Darkness Summer Fun, The Barracudas,... more info