Culture Bully — Ke$ha announces Beastie Boys cover, Jack White & Wanda Jackson do the Late Show, new music from Blastoids, D. Watusi & JEFF the Brotherhood, and bunch of Nashville concert updates including news on Sharon Van Etten, Ted Leo, the Kills & Interpol. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Make Major Moves interviews singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten. NPR reviews (and excerpts from) Colm Toibin's new story collection, The Empty Family. Drowned in Sound interviews Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch about his new book, The Celestial C... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Little Scream "The Heron and the Fox" (MP3) Sharon Van Etten at Bowery Ballroom (more by Jessica Amaya) Sharon Van Etten just headlined Bowery Ballroom recently and will return to play another hometown show at the about-equally-sized Music ... more info

The CatBirdSeat — Every year, our friends at the Bend, OR Bulletin put together a 2-”disc” wrap-up compilation of the previous year’s music– one disc filled with local Pacific NW artists, and one with a wide national set. This year’s collection will get you... more info

Stereogum — Sharon Van Etten is, according to Pitchfork, working on recording the followup to Epic with The National’s Aaron Dessner. That’s good news. The album sessions have to fit in between her tour for Epic, which included a stop at the Bowery Ballroom ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Jessica Amaya Though I only personally caught Sharon Van Etten due to dinner plans that went longer than expected (everyone was raving about opener The War on Drugs though), I can say that Saturday night's show at Bowery... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sharon Van Etten @ High Violet Annex (more by David Andrako) today in NYC * Winter Jazz Fest * Lucia Pulido @ Barbes * Los Texmaniacs @ Barbes * Bettye LaVette @ Joe's Pub * Patton Oswalt @ Caroline's *... more info

Altsounds — *Sharon Van Etten* wrapped up 2010 with a bow by appearing on more best-of and year-end lists than we could count, including those from SPIN, NPR's All Song's Considered... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Yellow Ostrich - Love More (Sharon Van Etten) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sharon Van Etten - Love More (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sharon Van Etten - Don't Do It (MP3) Sharon Van Etten @ Bruar Falls (more by Jessica Amaya) Above you can... more info

KEXP Seattle — Emerging through an entirely too crowded genre of indie singer-songwriters, Sharon Van Etten meandered into our studios, and maybe in the process, into your hearts. The Brooklyn-based Van Etten conjures up simple, wide-eyed tunes in the vein of local... more info