Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Real Estate - Beach Comber (MP3) Real Estate @ Market Hotel (more by Leia Jospe) So we asked a load of NYC-area bands to tell us how their 2009 went, via a handy questionnaire... New Jersey's... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The year is winding down as December begins to fade away along with the rest of 2009. I am going to use a lot of my free time during winter break to catch up on albums and figure out what my best of albums of 2009 are! I’ve been digging my teeth in... more info

Rawkblog — Jams: Pants Yell!’s excellent Received Pronunciation; Miranda Lambert’s Revolution; Darlings’ Yeah I Know, Real Estate’s self-titled debut and The Clientele’s Bonfires on the Heath. Film & TV: Deeper Into Movies with Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up i... more info

Pitchfork - TV — Smith Westerns, Real Estate, and Delorean star in this overview of the recent P4k-curated event courtesy of . more info

Chorus.fm — I've had quite an obsession this past year with discovering early post-hardcore bands. I'm not speaking of the obvious influences of Jawbox, Sunny Day Real Estate and Jawbreaker - ones I am already familiar with - no, I'm speaking more along the line... more info

Stereogum — Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker and his Freaks (including Real Estaters Matt Mondanile and Martin Courtney) just released their hazy Crazy Horse-flavored self-titled debut on Underwater Peoples. In this week's Drop we we talk with Bleeker about l... more info

Rawkblog — As a lifelong Southern Californian, it’s hard not to link songs about surf with the Pacific coast — but Real Estate’s “Beachcomber” shies away from the sun for a jangly trip to the Jersey shore (though not, for better or worse, Jersey Shore... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Leia Jospe DOWNLOAD: Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid (MP3) (via) Woods "Saturday Night Live" has drawn praise for an episode (hosted by the "Gossip Girl" star Blake Lively) that opened with a satire on Michaele and Tareq... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Out of the strange magic world that seems to be the Ridgewood/Glen Rock area of New Jersey (think VivGrrlz, Titus Andronicus, Real Estate, Liquor Store, Ducktails, Fluffy Lumbers, and Frat Dad), comes a newish project that is really making me... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — The Art Museums are the latest signees to Woodsist (home to Real Estate, Woods, Ganglians, Blank Dogs), and while we don't know much about these guys, they do have a forthcoming LP, Rough Frame, on the way, and the Kinks-y jangle of "Sculpture Garden... more info