Brooklyn Vegan — Sharon at LPR in October (more by Toby Tenenbaum) As mentioned, Sharon Van Etten signed to Jagaguwar and will release her next album with them in early 2012, which Aaron Dessner (of The National) is producing. A release date still... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater and Minus Story affiliate (BTW Class of ‘08) multi-instrumental singer/songwriter Jordan Geiger has made a second collection of songs under his Hospital Ships moniker, titled Lonely Twin and due this summer. “Reprise” is one if its e... more info

Altsounds — *This Will Destroy You predictably crushed SXSW with their monumental, instrumental, cinematic rock, as shown in the video (http://girlieaction.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d59aca4aeedaab429816159e&id=3d3cdfe0cc&e=45457d5adb) of them playing t... more info

kata rokkar... — Oakland/Berkeley trio Hetch Hetchy (Yosemite, anyone?) sounds a bit like their listed influences, but not as much as I would have thought considering they list a large variety of droning instrumental bands. The music they perform on the October 2010 ... more info

Chorus.fm — Watch (http://www.avclub.com/articles/shearwater-covers-randy-newman,48701/) Jonathan Meiburg *(Shearwater* (http://www.myspace.com/shearwater)) cover *Randy Newman*'s "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)" here. If you're a fan of the band and liv... more info

DrownedInSound — Listen to this week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring a whole lot from our end of year content and more, including LCD Soundsystem, Shearwater, Gang Of Four, Deftones, Joy Division, Dirty Projectors and, of course, more. Read the full story on... more info

Stereogum — We put the third album from Baltimore duo Wye Oak on our honorable mention list of most anticipated releases of 2011. Some other details to help that anticipation: Though they’ve handled production themselves in the past, Wye Oak brought in enginee... more info

Guardian Music — Songs that find a special way to say goodbye and leave their best until lastMomentous times on the Readers Recommend blog this week as the faithful gathered to wave off Paul MacInnes with the eminently suitable subject of songs with famous last words... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Shearwater (more by Chris Graham) Shearwater are multitaskin'. The band is currently on tour with Damien Jurado (hopefully following Thor's guidelines) but managed to squeeze out a new album of quirky instrumentals entitled Shearwater is Enron via th... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian reports that Pulp will reunite for live dates in 2011. The Daily Beast lists the politicians who have sold the most books. Shearwater has a new instrumental album, Shearwater Is Enron available at Bandcamp. The band's drummer Thor... more info