Stereogum — Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos tackles Smashing Pumpkins melancholy, melodramatic “Tonight, Tonight” for Levi’s Pioneer series. Previously we heard Dirty Projectors cover Dylan, and The Shins do Squeeze’s “Goodbye Girl.” Sign up with L... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThere are, no doubt, more screamingly obvious band misnomers (the Pop Group perhaps take the top spot with their post-punk racket), but the collaboration between Gnarls Barkley wunder-producer Danger Mouse and James Mercer ... more info

Pitchfork — Photos by Emmett Malloy, from recording sessions for the 180° South soundtrack MP3: Ugly Casanova: "Here's to Now" Back in 2002, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock released Sharpen Your Teeth, the one and only album from his Ugly Casano... more info

DrownedInSound — You may have noticed a little less news than usual this week. There is very good reason for this and that's because our news editor was off drinking Viking lager on a press junket in Iceland. Here's a little round-up of the bits of 'news' from the we... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Broken Bells will play a one off gig later this month for Richard Thompson’s Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre.  The duo - James Mercer from The Shins and multi instrumentalist... more info

MTV.com News — Portland band pays homage to British new-wave act as part of denim company's revival series.By Matt Harper James Mercer Photo: MTV News The Shins may have taken a break while frontman James Mercer works on Broken Bells, his side project wit... more info

VH1 News — The Shins cover British New Wave band Squeeze's '70s single "Goodbye Girl" for Levi's Pioneer Sessions 2010 Revival Recordings. The denim company recruited a dozen musical acts to re-craft songs influential to them. more info

DrownedInSound — Single Of The Week! Everything Everything - ‘Schoolin’ (Geffen) One of the things I like most about The Shins, is their knack in pitching lyrics on the right side of impenetrability. For it seems to me the best lyrics – the ones that compe... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Levi’s Pioneer Sessions just released a new free cover by The Shins. They covered the Squeeze song “Goodbye Girl”. James Mercer’s vocals are a perfect fit for this song, and they effectively make the song sound like it’s a Shins original. T... more info

Pitchfork — From the Pharcyde's "Drop" to Rancid's "Salvation", great music videos are bursts of sound and vision that leave an indelible impression. Director's Cut is a Pitchfork News feature in which we chat with music video directors about their creations. ... more info