The Lipster — Starring Thurston Moore, BYOP and the Ramones, Junior Senior, Roseanne Barr, Lil Kim, Madonna, the MTV Awardzzz and MIA's lack of retirement... more info

Stereogum — Kevin Shields wasn't the only one doing interviews at ATP. After his Don't Look Back set, looking back on Psychic Hearts , Thurston Moore sat with a Rolling Stone film crew to offer his thoughts on the ATP Festival past and present. Predictable top... more info

Pitchfork — Uptown and downtown are about to collide in a fantastically awesome way. In a video interview with RollingStone.com taped over the weekend at ATP NY, Sonic Youth guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore revealed that he is collaborating with Jemina Pearl, f... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — In the mid-'70s, the punk sound sprang forth in the seedy downtown New York dives CBGB and Max's Kansas City, the fetid spawning ground of the cream of the crud, including the Ramones and Suicide and the Voidoids and Wayne... more info

Idolator — From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the critical reaction to TV On The Radio's new album, Dear Science, which comes out in the US tomorr... more info

Detroit Free Press — On record, French Kicks' silken, highbrow indie pop often verges on gorgeous; onstage, the music gets kicked up with an extra punch of energy. The New York band hits Pontiac as part of a quick North American dash in advance of its new "Covers" E... more info

Stereogum — French Kicks released Swimming, fronted by the dreamy ("post-punk for cocktail hour," we called it) "Abandon" and some coffee-fresh cover art, back in May. The New York quartet are heading on tour to support said collection, but are also offering up... more info

A Deeper Shade of Soul — Nowadays, it’s taken for granted that we live in an era of “niche.” We have several-hundred cable channels, YouTube, websites to appeal to anyone’s deepest interests and literally an infinite amount of entertainment and inf... more info

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