Here Comes The Flood — The Sweet Serenades are a duo from Stockholm, Sweden, playing garage rock songs with a melodic twist. Their album Balcony Cigarettes will sit comfortably next to The Fratellis, The Shirts and The Strokes. Singer Mathias Näslund has the cool del... more info

AngryApe — According to frontman Julian Casablancas more info

Guardian Music — The frontman of the New York indie darlings says their forthcoming LP will combine the sound of Thin Lizzy with a-haThe Strokes have already written most of their fourth album, according to Julian Casablancas. Three years since their last record, the... more info

Live Daily — Freak-folk singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart [ tickets ] will play a few dates in the Northeast and upper Midwest this fall after releasing his latest studio effort. The eight-city outing gets underway Nov. 16 in Chicago, and includes stops in Bo... more info

8/1 — 150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days144 - Robert Wyatt Co... more info

Culture Bully — Is This It set a clear template for straightforward and accessible rock records in the Aughts that many tried to replicate, but few were ever able to match (including the Strokes themselves). more info

NME — 'Phrazes For The Young' is set for release in October more info

Soul Sides — Nostalgia 77 feat. Alice Russell: 7 Nation ArmyThe Hot 8 Brass Band: Sexual Healing (Re-Edit)Both from Tru Thoughts Covers (Tru Thoughts, 2009)My first encounter with Tru Thoughts probably came via the Nostalgia 77, back in 2004 when I first wrote ab... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "Little Joy is a Brazilian/American rock band formed in 2007 by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante and The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Amarante and Moretti met in 2006, at a festival in Lisbon where both their bands were performing,... more info

The Quietus — The Strokes singer posts track on MySpace more info