Ryan's Smashing Life — PICK IT UP - ROCK FOR A CAUSE: Musicians are working together these days performing some pretty sensational songs for Dark Was The Night a new benefit albums for the Red Hot organization (an international charity dedicated to raising money and awaren... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Here's February's edition of the Music Alliance Pact. For those of you who don't know about MAP, it's a collection of music blogs from around the world who band together once a month to shed light on up-and-comers from their home countries. It's so... more info

Guardian Music — When I interviewed Bono in Dublin back in January, as part of my marathon tracking of the new U2 album, No Line On the Horizon, for Sunday's Observer Music Monthly, he described it as "essentially a big fat rock album". The most dramatic exception is... more info

Stereogum — A ways back I did a post about the Welcome Wagon's cover of the Smiths' "Half A Person" from their debut album Welcome To The Welcome Wagon. The band's essentially the betrothed duo of Reverend Thomas Vito and Monique Aiuto, but Sufjan Stevens produc... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Chum BucketSantogold officially changed her name to Santigold. Please take a moment to update your iPod. [Brooklyn Vegan]Bruce Springsteen speaks out about his now-infamous Super Bowl slide. [Rolling Stone]Someone pretending to be MS... more info

Buzzgrinder — A few Christmases back, folk wunderkind Sufjan Stevens thought up the idea for the Xmas Song Xchange Contest. People would send Sufjan holiday songs they wrote, and Sufjan would return the favor by giving a winner of his choosing the rights to a holi... more info

Music For Ants — Brooklyn artists continue to dominate 2009 for me the latest example being Here We Go Magic, the moniker for singer/songwriter, Luke Temple.  I’m not sure why I’ve gone this long without hearing about this guy, especially since Sufjan Stevens ... more info

Pitchfork — Back in 2007, Sufjan Stevens conducted "The Great Sufjan Song Xmas Xchange," in which the singer-songwriter asked fans to send him holiday tunes. The person behind the best entry would win the rights to an exclusive Sufjan Christmas track, while Sufj... more info

8/1 — I die 4 youMP3: Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti) - Blood Pt. 2 [removed @ request] more info

Sixeyes — Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, and several more who sit a rung below on this particular musical ladder now have to make room to welcome William Fitzsimmons to the upper rungs, rungs which lead into the quiet introspective sky of this musical realm. Fit... more info