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

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are now on pre-sale for the Spoon/Deerhunter tour/show @ Radio City.... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — “Mean Red Spider” is the b-side for Transference’s lead single, “Written In Reverse”. For me it was slightly more accessible at first than Transference was. With that said, I am still digging my teeth in Transference (which you can stream a... more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Michael Jackson, Ting Tings • Cowell Leaving Idol for U.S. X Factor • Fresh Hendrix Releases, Reissues Set for ‘10 • James Taylor, Carole King Team for Tour • Blink-182 Capturing Recording Sessions in Doc • Clapton Set fo... more info