Sky News — Top European football club Real Madrid has unveiled plans to spend $1bn (£630m) to build a lavish resort island in the United Arab Emirates, complete with luxury hotels, marina and amusement park. more info

ContactMusic — Actress Elizabeth Olsen recently obtained her real estate licence for extra income to help put herself through college The break-out star and younger sister to designer twins Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen has dreamed of gracing the big screen ever since... more info

Guardian Music — New York-based indie-rock band Real Estate visit the Guardian studio to play an exclusive live version of their single 'It's Real', taken from their second studio album DaysBen KapeAndy GallagherEkaterina OchagaviaElliot Smith more info

Stereogum — PO PO was once a trio of Pakistani brothers from Philly who recalled “the Germs or Black Lips or various strains of garage punk” on first blush, long ago at Bowery, opening for Wavves and Real Estate. Over the ensuing three years, PO PO has decre... more info

Stereogum — The comedian Chris Gethard, most recently known around these parts as an illiterate, felonious Real Estate street teamer, hosts an absurd and delightful variety show called The Chris Gethard Show. Most recently, TCGS spiked its “absurd and delightf... more info

KEXP Seattle — If you listened to Dylan Baldi’s Cloud Nothings project a year ago, you wouldn’t have predicted anything like Attack on Memory. Back then, Cloud Nothings was an indie rock/alt-punk infusion, mixing rich, upbeat guitar lines from the likes of earl... more info

Stereogum — London band “Weird Dreams” practice a certain loose, homespun form of guitar-centric indie-pop, like Real Estate if they had some Buzzcocks sharpness somewhere in their DNA. (Not a lot, though.) Their debut album Choreography is coming out soon, ... more info

Stereogum — For Record Store Day (April 21), Domino and Ribbon will put out the multi-media Smugglers Way Flexi-Disc Zine, a release that combines a 24-page zine with five flexi discs of unreleased material by the likes of Real Estate, Dirty Projectors, Cass McC... more info

Stereogum — Well, this is pretty sweet. Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk was the party responsible for bringing singer-songwriter Damien Jurado to Sub Pop way the hell back in the late ’90s. And now Enigk has recorded a smoothly pretty version of Ju... more info

Stereogum — Real Estate’s single for “Easy” is coming out this spring, and they recently took that release’s B-side, “Exactly Nothing,” to Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 Radio studio for a live performance. Head to Listen Before You Buy to hear “Exactly... more info