Nialler9 — Sleigh Bells. Love ‘em. Here’s a recording from them playing Primavera Sound this year. Hey, it’s Friday. Via Some Kind of Awesome. Photo via Flickr. more info

Tastes Like Caramel — I don’t know about everyone else (nor do I care frankly) but I had an amazing time over the weekend at HARD NYC on Governors Island. It was an extremely hot summer day but that did not hinder my cousin and I from venturing out to Governor’s Islan... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Woah, DZ’s “Gebbie Street” sound like a mix of Death From Above 1979 & Sleigh Bells. Basically it’s balls of the wall rock and roll that is meant to be played loud with spilled beers on the floor and loads of sweaty people going apeshit in a ... more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn’s Theophilus London is playing M.I.A.’s Hard Fest this weekend, played last CMJ with Sleigh Bells, and is otherwise keeping cool while keeping cool company. Add this guest appearance on Dave Sitek’s Maximum Balloon album to his list of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by dailybeatz, words by Andrew Frisicano Hopefully all goes well with the HARD NYC show at Governors Island's South Island Field this Saturday (7/24). The show, which still has tickets on sale, will be happening despite the cancellation of... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — At Exclaim!, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Edgar Wright and Kevin Drew talk about the music of the Scott Pilgrim movie. The Millions examines "the Vonnegut effect" (the need to read everything by the American author). Sleigh Bells' Derek Miller talks to... more info

MTV.com News — 'We put both events together to make one large event,' Gary Richards tells MTV News of joining forces for Hard Summer.By James Montgomery M.I.A. Photo: Roger Kisby/ Getty Images Earlier this week, when the M.I.A.-headlined Hard L.A. concert... more info

Detroit Free Press — The good-natured surfer-singer remains a dependable live draw, this time arriving with tunes from his chart-topping new album "To the Sea." more info

MTV.com News — Cancellation comes in wake of recent suspected-overdose death of 15-year-old at Electric Daisy Carnival.By Gil Kaufman M.I.A. Photo: Roger Kisby/ Getty Images Citing security concerns, the promoters behind the upcoming M.I.A.-headlined Hard... more info

Guardian Music — DIY is now a way to allow a more intimate relationship with a increasingly fickle audience in the context of a shrinking record industryThe drum pattern that opens the Ronettes' Be My Baby was once the most thrilling sound in pop. Now, used in tens, ... more info