Stereogum — The Austin band Heartless Bastards makes a gigantic, wide-open sort of road-trip rock, and their 2009 album The Mountain was an absolute gem. The band returns early next year with a new album called Arrow, which they recorded with Spoon’s Jim Eno. ... more info

Guardian Music — Tramway, GlasgowPass the Spoon is a daft and instantly lovable collaboration between cartoonist David Shrigley, composer David Fennessy and director Nicholas Bone. The posters promised a "sort-of opera" about cookery; what transpired was a zany, warm... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin Spoon @ Fun Fun Fun Fest Spoon had nothing to promote and no surplus of new songs to unveil. This was just an Austin band -- Austin's biggest indie band ever -- playing an Austin festival... more info

Stereogum — At some point next year, Craig Finn, the splenetically wordy and generally joyous frontman of the Hold Steady, will release a solo album under his own name. Finn recorded it earlier this year in Austin, with Spoon collaborator Mike McCarthy producing... more info

Guardian Music — David Shrigley on his tattoo-crazy fans and his latest work – an operatic faux MasterChef"It's weird, really weird actually," says David Shrigley, sitting in his studio at home in Glasgow. The 43-year-old artist is attempting to explain a recent tr... more info

Here Comes The Flood — The Luz de Vida compilation album, out now on Fort Lowell Records, is touching remembrance for the victims of the January 8th shootings in Tucson, AZ. When the calls were made to artists to contribute a song, response was huge. Since it was origina... more info

Powerpopulist — Hiyas.We're excited about the below and thank the thoughty bloggers for hosting/posting.Marshall Crenshaw - Cynical Girl - Teenage Kicks - our favorite by MCSoft Boys - Queen Of Eyes - For The Sake Of The SongNashville Ramblers - The Trains - Requiem... more info

Guardian Music — (dBpm)Jeff Tweedy's Chicago band have made a mockery of their initial pigeonholing as alt.country. On their eighth album, the typically unpredictable primary influences seem to be Nick Lowe's spiky new wave and the multitracked Beatles of Abbey Road.... more info

Altsounds — Spoon Records and Mute announce the release of the 40th anniversary edition of the classic Can album Tago Mago on November 15, 2011. The new edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971... more info

Impose Magazine — In cooperation with Spoon Records, the historical home for all things Can, Mute Records will reissue the 1971 karut-rock masterpiece Tago Mago, along with a bonus disc of previously unreleased live tracks from 1972. Released with the original UK c... more info