ContactMusic — The 2012 festival season is gearing up already with many festivals announcing their line-ups now well in advance of the summer in order to maximise on tickets sales The Bonnaroo festival has been taking place in Manchester Tennessee since 2002 and th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Though the Bonnaroo lineup won't be announced until later today (via Spotify), Knoxville.com has supposedly leaked some of it via a photo gallery which includes Beach Boys, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Phish, Foster the People, Alice Cooper, Ludacris, Black ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Congratulations to Bon Iver for winning two Grammys last night for New Artist and Alternative Album! While this year’s nominees included a healthy dose of KEXP favorites — Fleet Foxes, The Decemberists, The Black Keys, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie,... more info

Perez Hilton — The Foo Fighters are sweeping the Grammys this year! With four wins under their belt before the official show even start, the band beat out Coldplay, The Decemberists, Mumford & Sons, and Radiohead for the title of Best Rock Performance for their sin... more info

Guardian Music — With their Bach encores and Radiohead covers, Punch Brothers aren't your average bluegrass bandBefore Punch Brothers' show at west London's Bush Hall last month, I saw a young man turn to his friend at the bar and ask: "What are you supposed to drink... more info

Topix — Look at the five 54th Grammy Awards nominees for both rock performance and rock song and it's easy to envision an afternoon stroll through some enchanted forest: "Walk" by the Foo Fighters is competing against "Down by the Water" by the Decemberists,... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Times pop music critic Randall Roberts parses the confusing nominations among the Grammy rock acts, including Coldplay, Radiohead, Mastodon, Mumford & Sons and others. more info

Guardian Music — (Nonesuch)Last month, this outrageously virtuosic and experimental bluegrass-pop-jazz band from New York turned up at a small London venue and gave what will surely be one of the most memorable concerts of the year. Now the five-piece Punch Brothers ... more info

Guardian Music — Format, Pet Shop Boys' new B-sides collection, shows how clever artists can make pop gold from a single's flipsideThe one-word titles of Pet Shop Boys albums always repay a second look and so it proves with Format, the name of their second volume of ... more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn quintet Here We Go Magic hooked up with perennial Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on their new album A Different Ship, which comes out this spring. Below, check out the album’s tracklist and the jumpy, jittery “Make Up Your Mind,” the... more info