MTV.com News — Indie band tops Eminem and last week's #1, Avenged Sevenfold.By James Montgomery The Arcade Fire's Win Butler Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images It's been an oddly major year for indie artists. Back in January, Vampire Weekend made histor... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Here's another batch of the ten best MP3 downloads on the web this week - download and enjoy! 1. Antony and the Johnsons – ‘Thank You For Your Love’ Antony and the Johnsons are releasing a five-track EP titled ‘Thank You For Your Love’ on ... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Exclusive Sony With his pensive expression and calm demeanor, Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton), is certainly more mouse than danger. This is not to say that he's meek -- he's just incredibly quiet and surprisingly cautious, despite all o... more info

NME - The Video Blog — The warm cider has been drunk, the tents have been packed away and the wellies have been dusted off. Glastonbury 2010 has finished, relive the weekend now with our video round-up. NME caught half of Vampire Weekend backstage to chat about their Euro... more info

Pitchfork — Photos by Emmett Malloy, from the 180° South soundtrack recording sessions James Mercer is the frontman of the Shins and Broken Bells. Broken Bells released an album earlier this year, the Shins just released a cover of the Squeeze song "Goodbye G... more info

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