Guardian Music — Your chance to hear Spoon's seventh album before anyone elseIn last week's Film & Music, the Guardian heaped praise upon Spoon's seventh album, saying that the Austin alt-rockers "reshuffle their pack so skilfully that the same cards – guitar,... more info

5 Acts — Memoryhouse - To The Lighthouse (MillionYoung Remix)Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (The Teenagers Remix)Architecture In Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind (Hot Chip Remix)Wave Machines - Keep The Lights On (Home Video Remix)Spoon - Don't You Evah ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jay Reatard leaving the Wired Store seconds after playing (more by Tim Griffin) Tickets are still on AmEx presale and "Internet Presale" (password = HESPOON) for the Spoon/Deerhunter show at Radio City Music Hall. They go on general sale Saturday... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — It’s Friday so that means tickets are going on sale! Lots of bands have new albums coming out, so that means they are going on tour: Kings of Convenience, Midlake, Yoko Ono’s We Are Plastic Ono Band, Spoon, Shearwater, The Thermals, and many more... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are still on AmEx presale and "Internet Presale" (password = HESPOON) for the Spoon/Deerhunter show at Radio City Music Hall. They go on general sale Saturday at 10am. Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Rodrigo y Gabriela... more info

Guardian Music — (Anti-)John Peel's description of the Fall - "always different, always the same" - might equally apply to the Austin, Texas band Spoon, who have made it to seven albums without any significant variation in high quality. Leader Britt Daniel is a maste... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon) for the Spoon/Deerhunter show at Radio City Music Hall. Little Dragon is playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 25th. Tickets are on sale (@ noon). The Morning Benders are playing Mercury... more info

Stereogum — It was way back in June that Spoon released Got Nuffin, a brief collection that gave us our first taste of Transference via the dusky, percussive rocker that gave the EP its name. A couple of weeks later we heard a live take of "Is Love Forever?. At ... more info

Silent Uproar — Spoon will release Transference on January 19th via Merge Records. The Texas quartet has announced a supporting North American tour in March and April. Atlanta's Deerhunter will support on all dates. [mergerecords.com] more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Britt Daniel of Spoon will be delivering a solo acoustic performance at Sound Fix Records in Williamsburg on Saturday, January 23rd (time TBD). That's four days after Spoon's new album, Transference, is released by Merge who by the way... more info