Pitchfork — Goodbye Girl (Squeeze Cover) The Levi's Pioneer Sessions online series has given us free mp3s of people like Dirty Projectors, She & Him, and Nas covering classic songs. And today, Levi's is offering the world the Shins' cover of Squeeze's ne... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Amd said... INTROS QUIZ - 1985 edition Intros of 20 hits from 1985, for you to guess or know. http://www.halfhearteddude.com Sir Charlie Palmer said... Fold Your Hand Child, You Walk Like A Peasant – Belle & Sebastian Natural Light – Eric Bibb ... more info

411 Mania — Danger Mouse and the Shins' James Mercer score big cameo for new Bells video... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Shins' James Mercer talks to the Boston Globe about Broken Bells, his collaboration with Danger Mouse. The Daily Echo profiles Martin Baum, who translates the works of Dickens into youth vernacular. One of literature’s most famous opening sente... more info

Altsounds — *Flaming Lips / Field Music / Sleepy Sun / The Specials / Broken Bells * *Flaming Lips - *Wayne Coyne and co bring technicolor live show to Øya *Broken Bells - *the much talked about collaboration between Dangermouse and James Mercer of T... more info

Pitchfork — Levi's is doing a web series called the Pioneer Sessions in which artists cover songs that inspired their sound. Then they give away an MP3 of the redo. Not a bad deal. First, Nas took on Slick Rick's "Hey Young World" and now She & Him do the classi... more info

Pitchfork — A while back, we clued you in to the soundtrack to Chris Malloy's documentary about Patagonia, 180° South, featuring new compositions from Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock's solo project Ugly Casanova and James Mercer of the Shins and Broken Bells. T... more info

Pitchfork — Broken Bells, the duo of Danger Mouse and Shins frontman James Mercer, have scored quite a coup for their forthcoming video for "The Ghost Inside". Entertainment Weekly reports that actress Christina Hendricks, who plays Joan Holloway on "Mad Men" a... more info

Pitchfork — Denim institution Levi's has launched a series of free downloads called Levi's Pioneer Sessions. This one's got a simple concept: Current artists covering older songs. The first download in the series is up now, and it's Nas doing his take on Sli... more info

The Playlist — Some more soundtrack news today that has nothing to do with "Sex And The City 2."Indie heavyweights James Mercer (The Shins, Broken Bells) and Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) have lent their considerably talented hands to the soundtrack of documentary "18... more info