Live Daily — Sonic Youth [ tickets ] has added an additional leg of Western US dates to its itinerary this fall as the band continues to support its latest studio release, "The Eternal." The seven-city slate picks up where the band's current trek--which contin... more info

Persona Sauna — NPR listeners came out of the woodwork to cast their votes for the year's best music thus far, and Animal Collective took the top spots in both Best Album and Best Song.Best Singles of 2009 (so far)1. "My Girls" Animal Collective2. "Two Weeks" Grizz... more info

Stereogum — This past weekend, Seattle roped off a couple of blocks on Pike Street to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, inviting everyone from Sonic Youth to Micachu to Jesus Lizard to help fill out a strong roster of artists. And Speaking of Yow's iconic ba... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Merce Cunningham @ BAM w/ Dance Company & Sonic Youth (more by Stephanie Berger) Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater, died... more info

Culture Bully — Photo and video coverage of Sonic Youth at Minneapolis' First Avenue (07/21/2009). more info

Totally Fuzzy — Willard said...JOE GALLANT & ILLUMINATI The Blues For Allah Project (1996)Live, big band Grateful Dead. Bizarre reading of the Dead classic. Includes some Dead members. Listen BEFORE you download at...NEVER GET OUT OF THE BOAThttp://nevergetoutoftheb... more info

JamBase — BJÖRK'S MULTI-MEDIA VOLTAIC OUT ON NONESUCH RECORDS Björk Björk's Voltaic, a very special DVD/CD/VINYL recording, was released in the U.S. earlier this month by Nonesuch Records, full track listings are below. Voltaic i... more info

Allmusic Blog — 2002 didn't suffer from quite the case of multiple personalities that 2001 did, but the changing of the musical guard was almost as apparent. While vets like Beck, Jurassic 5, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Flaming Lips, and Wilco turned in some of the best... more info

Stereogum — The noise wrangler and sometime pop balladeer who brought Wilco and Sonic Youth to new creative peaks before decamping to Japan returns to song-based solo material with Visitors (Drag City, 9/8). Last year he promised "pretty much everyone is going t... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman talk to the New York Press about their collaborative book, Who Killed Amanda Palmer. “I loved the idea that somebody had been taking photos of herself dead in different places for 14 years.There was a... more info