Guardian Music — Every track on the New York noise rockers' new album, The Eternal, provides a nod towards artists they admire and a portal to an underground wonderworldIn the early 1980s NME featured a column called Portrait of the Artist as a Consumer. Every week a... more info

8/1 — 8.5/1070'ler, 80,90'lar ellerinde piç olmuÅŸ. 2000'lere en demir geçiÅŸlerle eklemlemiÅŸler. The Horrors imaj mı, yanılsa mı diyalektiÄŸini yok ediyor. MaÅŸallah. Portishead adamı Geoff Barrow'un prodüktörlüğÃ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Sonic Youth - The Eternal (montage) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: So Percussion - "June"(MP3) DOWNLOAD: So Percussion performing Steve Reich's "Drumming, Part Three" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: So Percussion - "Melody Competition" (MP3) DOWNLOAD:... more info

Ryan's Smashing Life — SOLD OUT EVENING: The fact that nary a ticket is available for a Glasvegas show is as predictable as bad news on the front page these days ... Well tonight's musical escape at the Paradise in Boston is completely sold out. Glasvegas (who are touring ... more info

Rolling Stone — As we count the days until the June 9th release of Sonic Youth’s The Eternal (more on that album in our Spring Album Preview), this week we flash back to 1991, when the antics of donkey-voiced reporter Nardwuar the Human Serviette push the band to ... more info

8/1 — 8.7/10White Chalk'ta beyaz tebeÅŸirden kara tahtaya deÄŸdirdiÄŸi her bıçak darbesi en bilge ve çıplak PJ Harvey'di kuÅŸkusuz. Albüm kapağında kat kat giyinse de -genelde çıplak hatta memeleri dışarda göste... more info

Altsounds — Letter from Adam Duritz on OpenDNS (http://www.countingcrows.com) March 2009 Dear Fans, Eighteen years ago, when Counting Crows signed our first record contract, we were an unknown band signed to DGC, the cool indie-flavored boutique label of Geffe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Sonic Youth - The Eternal (montage) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: David Byrne & Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine (MP3) Dan Deacon fans @ the 2008 Bang on a Can Marathon (more by Leia Jospe) On April 2nd, 2009,... more info

NME — Artists including Graham Coxon, Franz Ferdinand, The Stooges, Sonic Youth and Tom Waits are offering rare or unreleased material as part of this year's Record Store Day. more info

Allmusic Blog — Sonic Youth and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones have collaborated on a composition for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Titled “Nearly Ninety,” the piece features contributions from mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi and will debut at... more info