My Old Kentucky — (photo cred : Hugh Twyman)Sure, Meeting of Important People may be a presumptuous name for a band of Pittsburgh upstarts, but take a listen — these gents pack in pop hooks like they've been doing it for years. And, to some degree, they have; s... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Megaphonic Thrift (Myspace) Hometown: Norway Album: A Thousand Years of Deconstruction (Buy) Label: Spoon Train Audio, Deadly Records, Sounds Gold The Megaphonic Thrift – Acid Blues Bookmark It Hide Sites more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Housing Works is hosting a little celebration for Merge Records‘ new book Our Noise. There will be readings from the book and music, of course: Merge Records founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance will appear to celebrate the release of Our Nois... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — To mark the 40th anniversary of 'Flying Circus,' the five living original members reminisce. In 1969, five young British comedians and one young American anima... more info

Culture Bully — After all of the great albums the band has released the one that finds its way back to my stereo most often is 2002's Kill the Moonlight. more info

Rawkblog — Thom Yorke photo by David Greenwald New Music: Spoon’s a cappella “The Ghost Of You Lingers“; a stoner-rock jam from Ned Collette; a belated review of Dirty Projector’s stunning Bitte Orca. Interviews: I sat down with the cast of Where the Wi... more info

Rawkblog — Photo by David Greenwald Just in time for Halloween, Spoon has released an interesting outtake for us — the a cappella version of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga’s strangest song, “The Ghost Of You Lingers.” Hearing the faded vocals reverberate without that d... more info

Obscure Sound — Identifying the differences between concise indie-rock and avant-garde developments are more complex than analyzing track’s duration and selection of instrumentation. There are supremely talented musicians in each spectrum, with their method of cho... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Sleeping States certainly had a lot of buzz back in 2006. He had it for about one day, November 22, 2006, when IGIF, Stereogum, Said the Gramophone and countless other blogs picked up the track "Rivers" from Grizzly Bear's blog (this, along with his... more info

Stereogum — SCORE! 20 Years Of Merge Records: THE REMIXES! features Caribou, Four Tet, Xiu Xiu, Mark Robinson, the Blow, and others tackling classic and current Mergers. It's out 11/17 as a CD/download and is currently streaming for a limited time at Merge. more info