Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on American Express pre-sale (@ 11am) for the Sonic Youth & Dinosaur Jr. show happening at Terminal 5 on November 21st. General sale starts Friday at noon. Tickets for the Decemberists show at Terminal 5 do the same... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on American Express pre-sale (@ 11am) for the Sonic Youth & Dinosaur Jr show happening at Terminal 5 on November 21st. General sale starts Friday at noon. Tickets for the Decemberists show at Terminal 5 do the same... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Decemberists @ Newport Folk Festival 8/1 (more by Jim Brueckner) "The Decemberists have gotten muscular lately, too. The onetime bookish Smiths acolytes have lately discovered the wonders of prog. On [the first day of Lollapalooza 2009] they performe... more info

Buffalo News, New York — Western New York had something for everyone across its music stages Thursday night. more info

Chorus.fm — In case you haven't come across it, NPR has a host of streaming live sets for stream (http://www.npr.org/music/newportfolk/index2.html) from the Folk at Newport festival earlier this month. Sets available come from artists including *The Avett Broth... more info

JamBase — By: Mike Bookey Dusty Rhodes and the River Band by Brent Murrell Getting hit by a pickup truck is a categorically bad thing. That's just a rule of life, physics and motor vehicle safety. However, if it weren't for an absent-minded driver tha... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Chris Funk of the Decemberists talks to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the band's evolving sound. "I think we've just become more confident as a band. The more you work at it and the longer you stay with it, you progress... more info

Culture Bully — The Decemberists will return to the Twin Cities this October as part of a 19 date fall tour. more info

Live Daily — Fans turned out in wet-weather gear and painted faces to the tune of approximately 70,000 for a rainy Day 1 of Lollapalooza 2009. The lineup on Friday (8/7) featured headliners Depeche Mode [ tickets ]. Other artists on the bill included Of Montre... more info

Rolling Stone — “The thing about rain,” said Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon midway through his band’s Friday afternoon Lollapalooza set, “It kinda tells you what a city’s made of.” If Fallon’s theory is correct, the people of Chicago — and eve... more info