Rollo & Grady — Sharon Jones SXSW added several more heavyweight acts to the festival lineup. New additions include Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, jj, The xx, The Very Best, Spoon, and Mayer Hawthorne & The County. MP3: Greyboy Ft. Sharon Jones – Got To Be A Lov... more info

Stereogum — Spoon do a smooth down-tempo and echoing take on the British proto-goth punks 1979 Machine Gun Etiquette opener/all-around beloved anthem "Love Song" for Starbucks' newest Sweatheart compilation. It's the third volume of the series and also finds... more info

My Old Kentucky — Pitchfork posted a slew of great videos from this past Saturday's Haiti benefit in Brooklyn, hosted by Justin Vernon, of Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, of Spoon, comedian Zach Galifianakis, and Shara Worden, of My Brightest Diamond, among other... more info

The Playlist — Catching up on a few things...The poster for Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" surfaced. It shows a very photoshopped/heavily airbrushed Ewan McGregor and the ghostly face of Pierce Brosnan, get it? Seriously, this is one of the worst posters we've... more info

The Independent — On Monday, the most blogged artists of the moment according to The Hype Machine are Swedish pop group jj, Texas band Spoon, and South London group The xx. Also making the top ten are Brooklyn indie rock band Grizzly Bear and British singer/songwrite... more info

Rolling Stone — • Hope for Haiti Now: The RS Live Blog • Watch Bruce, Madonna, More Haiti Songs • Beck, Will Ferrell Join Conan for “Free Bird” • John Mayer in His Own Words: Q&A • Steven Tyler Karaokes Aerosmith at Cali Pub • Ozzy on Return of Ozzfe... more info

Rolling Stone — It took Spoon nearly a decade of thankless touring to break out of small clubs, but on Thursday night, they happily returned to one, stomping through old favorites (”Cherry Bomb,” “Fitted Shirt”) and most of their new album, Transference, for... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — I had a good response from my fans picking up the Spoon album this week. You can still get it from my Amazon store although the $3.99 offer has ended.So, as promised, I'm posting Spoon's very rare "Get Nice." A bonus CD of demos included on some co... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words by BBG, photos by Meghan McInnes Spoon you rock rocked Mercury Lounge tonite and I thank you for it - [noise64]If you got in line early yesterday afternoon (as early as 1PM from some reports), or were one of... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — It's that time of the year again, when all my Bonnaroo brethren are anxiously awaiting for the official lineup to be announced. The Roo crew usually release the lineup the first week of February, so it's only natural that the rumors and leaky lineup... more info