Guardian Music — The singer on posing naked, growing a beard, and why Germans don't recognise the sound of a ukeleleHow long have you had a beard?A few months. I stopped shaving and discovered I was more popular. Maybe people can't see my ordinary, rather dour facial... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Toots & the Maytals are returning to Brooklyn Bowl on 3/25 and 3/27. Tickets, at the links, on sale at noon. Yelawolf is playing Brooklyn Bowl on 3/13. Tickets on sale at noon. Tickets go on AmEx presale at noon... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Devotchka @ Metro in Chicago in January (more by Bed Rodig) The accidentally revealed it on the intitial tour announcement, so we always figured there would be two, but now the 2nd is annnounced too:"The Magnetic Fields have added a... more info

DrownedInSound — Back in December The Magnetic Fields announced the release of a new record, called _Love At The Bottom Of The Sea _ and out on March 5 through Domino. One of the tracks on the album is 'Andrew in Drag' and now there's a video for it, being the first ... more info

Stereogum — The Magnetic Fields’ latest single “Andrew In Drag” has been praised as a return to the form of the vintage Magnetic Fields through it’s more acoustic, synth-heavy arrangements (but don’t worry, too much. Stephin’s still doing the oddball... more info

Impose Magazine — Next Thursday, indie videogame collective Babycastles is showing the world Space Cruiser, a game built by Ivan Safrin for 200 people to play simultaneously within the Hayden Planetarium in New York's Museum of Natural History. Greg Fox (Impose... more info

Guardian Music — Jamie Byng of publisher Canongate and Richard Russell of XL Recordings talk to Alexis Petridis about the life and work of Gil Scott-Heron. Both men collaborated with him on his final works – his album I'm New Here and forthcoming memoir The Last Ho... more info

Chorus.fm — *The Magnetic Fields* (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Magnetic-Fields/105637969468778) have released (http://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/the-magnetic-fields-andrew-in) a new song titled "Andrew in Drag," from their upcoming album Love at the Botto... more info

Stereogum — A little while ago, Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields announced that they’d put out their tenth LP, Love At The Bottom Of The Sea. Merritt also promised a return to the more acoustic, synth-heavy arrangements of yore, which he backs up on the... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, Franz Ferdinand released the Covers Record Store Day EP, which features a whole mess of other artists taking on Franz tunes. One of those artists was LCD Soundsystem, whose version of “Live Alone” now has a video. Another was M... more info