Altsounds — Today, record label Blue Horizon announced it has signed Austin-based psychedelic rock band, The Black Angels. The Black Angels third album, and first release on Blue Horizon, is the highly anticipated Phosphene Dream, which is set for release on ... more info

Stereogum — Early BTW Black Angels’ third album, Phosphene Dream, will be their first for revived label Blue Horizon (it’s the label that released Fleetwood Mac’s debut album). Other changes for the band: They recorded outside of their hometown of Austin, ... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Club-night and label Sonic Cathedral is the focus of today's Daily Download as we check out what they have to offer. First up, 'The Psychedelic Sounds Of Sonic Cathedral' is a tribute to musical pioneer Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators. The... more info

MTV.com News — Previously announced artists include Vampire Weekend, Muse, Beck and the Dead Weather.By James Montgomery Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in "Eclipse" Photo: Summit Entertainment We already knew about Muse, and, then, throughout the da... more info

L.A. Times - News — Federal and state agents arrested 27 people Wednesday in an operation targeting an Ontario street gang with alleged ties to the Mexican Mafia, prosecutors said. The suspects are accused of drug trafficking, racketeering and other violent crimes for t... more info

Stereogum — The chiming, upbeat psychedelia of “Natural Selection,” UNKLE’s collaboration with onetime BTW Black Angels, contrasts with “Caged Bird,” an especially sinister Where Did The Night Fall track. Celebration’s Katrina Ford ably handles the v... more info

Pitchfork — -- On June 7, the British label Sonic Cathedral will release The Psychedelic Sounds of the Sonic Cathedral, a tribute album to Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators. It features Roky songs interpreted by My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields (joi... more info

Pitchfork — Golden Filter photo by Will Deitz -- Voluspa, the debut album from New York disco duo the Golden Filter, will soon be out on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, Brille will release it on April 26, and it's due June 15 in the U.S. Hear their track ... more info

Rollo & Grady — Recommended SXSW 2010 Shows Band of Horses – Fri, March 19th – 855pm @ Central Presbyterian Church (200 E. 8th St.) Black Angels – Saturday, March 20th – 1am @ Galaxy Room (508 E. 6th St.) The Black Angels – Bloodhounds On My Trail Black ... more info

Pitchfork — It seems like only yesterday we were enjoying the Austin sun while taking in too much BBQ and trying to catch dozens (hundreds?) of the world's finest and/or most breathlessly hyped new bands. But that was an entire year ago. Which can only mean one ... more info