L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — When it comes to venues around Austin, Texas, few can be as unforgiving as the large outdoor gravel bucket that is the barbecue joint/amphitheater Stubb's. Just Wednesday night, the first evening of South by Southwest showcases, the hotly tipped new.... more info

Culture Bully — Video footage of a CBC Q TV performance of "And This is What We Call Progress" by the Besnard Lakes. more info

Rolling Stone — Leading this week’s pack of New Reviews is The Big To-Do, the latest album from Athens, Georgia Southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers. The LP is the Truckers’ first proper studio album since 2008’s Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, and finds Pa... more info

The Yellow Stereo — With so many high-profile albums out this week (and this month for that matter), it once again makes for an increasingly difficult task of figuring out what to spend your hard-earned cash on. First off is Broken Bells, the highly anticipated collabor... more info

Song, by Toad — I don’t know if it’s supposed to be taken this way, but this record is great fun.  The otherwordly falsetto vocals and slightly over the top guitar melodrama just give it an air of exuberance. It also seems to have the right balance between se... more info

Quick Before It Melts — In sitting down to prepare this review, I heard the news that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide, which is why I’ve been drawn to the parallels between this album (in both name and tone) and that of Linkous’ last project, his collabor... more info

Popdose — I wish that record companies, publicists, and critics for that matter, would kick the habit of feeling the need to describe artists in terms of other artists in their press releases and reviews. This is especially true when, as if often the case, the... more info

DrownedInSound — They sound ready to blanket the entire world in their shadow. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Live Daily — Indie-rockers The Besnard Lakes [ tickets ] will launch a spring headlining tour to support their forthcoming studio album, "The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night." Before the trek gets underway with an April 27 date in Minneapolis, the Canadian... more info

Altsounds — If you've been paying attention to your internet, you should have an inkling that The Besnard Lakes is going to *reign down holy horse fire* upon the record players of the world with their March 9th (8th in the UK) release, *The Besnard Lakes Are the... more info