Rollo & Grady — 1. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois 2. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 3. Arcade Fire: Funeral 4. Radiohead: Kid A 5. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning 6. The White Stripes: Elephant 7. Gillian Welch: Time (the Revelator) 8. OutKast: Stanko... more info

Rock Sellout — pictured above: a misdemeanor (photo credit) I always stop to look at the posters for upcoming events that are on telephone poles. When I went to the record store a couple of weeks ago I saw a poster for The Sounds. 'The Sounds!' I thought, 'I used ... more info

Stereogum — Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back. It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Dav... more info

Rolling Stone — Peter Gabriel’s first new album in seven years will be an orchestral spring 2010 “song swap” called Scratch My Back where he and other big-name collaborators reinterpret each others’ songs, according to the Guardian. His collaborator John Met... more info

NME — 'Scratch My Back' is expected in early 2010 more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Since releasing Twilight of the Innocents back in 2007, the Irish trio known as Ash has turned away from the conventional recording of albums to focus instead on releasing steady singles on their own schedule. This led t... more info

Pasta Primavera — San Fran’s Ring Trick, producer of perhaps one of  my favorite Radiohead remixes, is being quite the ambitious musician this month by posting a demo a day on his tumblr blog.  If you’re in the mood for some solid electronics song sketches t... more info

Guardian Music — For his first LP in seven years, the former Genesis frontman will 'radically reinterpret' songs by Radiohead, Arcade Fire and Bon IverPeter Gabriel is release an orchestral covers album, his first LP in seven years. Scratch My Back is a "song swap", ... more info

Live Daily — British alt-rockers Band of Skulls will return to the US next month to put in additional roadwork behind the band's March debut, "Baby Darling Doll Face Honey." The trio--Russell Marsden (guitar/vocals), Emma Richardson (bass/vocals) and Matt Hayw... more info

Guardian Music — When Sufjan Stevens was asked to write a symphony for New York, he turned to a hated freeway for inspiration. The musician tells Andrew Purcell whyThe Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a miserable stretch of road. The BQE, as New ­ Yorkers call it, ha... more info