Rock Sellout — In celebration of Merge Records 20th anniversary, author John Cook (with the assistance of Merge founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance) will release the book Our Noise: The Story Of Merge Records on September 15th. The book chronicles the devel... more info

My Old Kentucky — The White Rabbits, from Brooklyn via Missouri, really impressed me with their debut LP, Fort Nightly in 2007. Fort Nightly's The Plot and Navy Wives were easily two of my favorite songs that year. With a bit more pressure on their sophomore release... more info

Allmusic Blog — 2002 didn't suffer from quite the case of multiple personalities that 2001 did, but the changing of the musical guard was almost as apparent. While vets like Beck, Jurassic 5, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Flaming Lips, and Wilco turned in some of the best... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this morning it was Kate from Toronto on the Broken Social Scene beat. Here, a reader named Renee witnessed new Spoon during the band's three-night stand at Stubb's (7/9-11) and thought to forward the details (thanks, readers). The new son... more info

Pasta Primavera — So surprise surprise Spoon is back with a new song/EP Got Nuffin.  While I’m a complete adoring Spoon fan, it seems “Got Nuffin” is a bit of a let down.  It’s okay…actually it’s pretty good…but from them I was expecting more becau... more info

Rolling Stone — • Jackson Browne Blends Classics, New Tunes in Montreal • Inside the Michael Jackson Memorial Issue • Jackson’s Death May Be Homicide, LAPD Says • Perez Hilton Confirms Warner Music Imprint • Leonard Cohen Asks for “Hallelujah” Break ... more info

Rolling Stone — It was a sweltering 97 degrees last night when Spoon took the stage at Stubb’s in Austin for round one of SpoonX3, an All Tomorrow’s Parties-type fest with Spoon as both headliner and opening-band curator back-to-back-to-back nights. It was a mer... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Decider Austin interviews Spoon frontman Britt Daniel. The Guardian reports that Playboy has acquired serial rights to Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. Chicago Journal previews this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. More "be... more info

Perez Hilton — Squinty eyes? Check. Finger in the mouth? Check. Lindsanity has such range! Was the notorious hard-pAArtier trying to seduce the camera in the Mr. Skin photo booth at the Silver Spoon Malibu Beach House last weekend??? Is it even working???? Hell n... more info

Rollo & Grady — Dan Auerbach Here are our favorite 20 tracks for the first half of 2009. 1.) Heartless Bastards - The Mountain 2.) Spoon - Got Nuffin 3.) The Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight 4.) Telekinesis! - Coast Of Carolina 5.) Dan Auerbach - Trouble... more info