melophobe — After wrapping up a solo album as Maximum Balloon, playing and producing for TV On the Radio and producing for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Foals (I know, I know, stop name dropping already), Dave Sitek has moved on to use his creative energies writing an... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The website puts musicians in control of digital sales and online merchandising. It isn't ready to rival iTunes, but it is growing in popularity. The website puts musicians in control of digital sales and online merchandising. It isn't ready to rival... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — After six years, a handful of albums and one censorship controversy, Amanda Palmer wanted a way to call her own shots after splitting with Roadrunner Records in April. After she claimed the label sought to cut or alter shots of... more info

Music For Ants — As is our holiday tradition, my family and I have been jamming to Sufjan’s Songs for Christmas. Fortunately for us, we’ve been treated with a new Christmas EP: Gloria! Songs For Christmas, Vol. 6 which features Aaron and Bryce Dressner of The Nat... more info

Guardian Music — 24 December: And so we reach the end. For our final audio advent calendar entry Domino has put together several hours of festive favourites. Happy Christmas!We finish our audio advent calendar with four hours of Christmas music chosen by Domino to g... more info

Music for Robots — Christmas music. Megafaun - I Saw Three Ships. Despite my excitement in the previous post, I have not done my musical job this Christmas season. I've listened to A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector a handful of times, and tried to keep up... more info

melophobe — Day two of musical gifts and I still got presents waiting in my bag! Hopefully you enjoyed part one of my gift-giving and are here to receive the second portion of holiday bounty that I have been reserving just for you. So never mind the bows and wra... more info

Abeano — LA Aggro rap-collective Odd Future’s Christmas song isn’t much like Beach House , Kanye or Sufjan Stevens’ festive efforts. As raw (“Boy minus father equals boy minus heart”) as it is fucking hilarious (“Crazy mother fuckers in... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — I don’t know about you, but I’m not really one for Christmas music. Sure it’s fine on Christmas Day and Eve, but hearing Jingle Bells in November is just overkill. I do like when musicians give exciting takes on these songs though. Sufjan Steve... more info

Guardian Music — A Christmas treat from Tracey Thorn, whose album Love and Its Opposite blew us away this yearHere's Tracey Thorn covering Sufjan Stevens's Sister Winter (you can hear the original here). Enjoy it on our stream or download it with additional Christmas... more info