Sweeping The Nation — A new weekly post for this summer where we guide you through the sets you should be seeing at British festivals the following weekend. Please note that a) we cannot be held responsible for clashes and b) we haven't heard and judged every band here, m... more info

Nialler9 — Finally, after all the hullabaloo, the Electric Picnic 10th lineup is with us: Bjork, Fatboy Slim, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, David Byrne And St.Vincent, Eels, Noah &The Whale, Johnny Marr, Disclosure, Ocean Colour Scene, Hurts, Mick Flannery, ... more info

Impose Magazine — Photographer Kate Davis traveled to Boise, ID to attend the second annual Treefort Music Festival. Over the course of four days (March 21st through 24th), she caught performances from Dan Deacon, Yacht, THEESatsifaction, YACHT, Social Studies, Naomi ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Last month, KEXP, STG, and Starbucks hosted the 5th edition of the Little Big Show at the Neptune Theater to benefit Youth In Focus, an after-school program that gives students an opportunity to develop positive identity, social skills, and voice thr... more info

So Much Silence — It’s been a long time - too long - since I’ve mentioned Mazarin’s name on this blog. To be exact, it’s been more than six years. That was in November 2006, when Mazarin was forced to retire its name because of a cease and desist order by an a... more info

The Bay Bridged — In some ways, pairing The Walkmen with Father John Misty is the perfect bill, as both acts have a similar two-bottles-of-wine flavor to them. From Joshua Tillman’s (aka Father John) gyrating hips, which call to mind a hippie impersonation of Mick J... more info

KEXP Seattle — STG, KEXP, and Starbucks came together to put on the 5th edition of the Little Big Show benefit concert series on Sunday night, where The Walkmen and Father John Misty brought down the house at the Neptune with two rousing sets to benefit Youth In Fo... more info

Prefix — Photo gallery of The Walkmen, Father John Misty @ Roseland, Portland (January 26, 2013) Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/the-walkmen-father-john-misty-roseland-portland-pi/ more info

LargeHeartedBoy — George Saunders talks to the Austin American-Statesman about his new short story collection Tenth of December. "Fun is an aspect of fiction that often gets undersold," says Saunders, talking about craft over the telephone, from his car, in a parking.... more info

The Bay Bridged — The new record from Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, We the Common, comes out on February 5th, 2013 via Ribbon Music, recorded at Tiny Telephone and produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky). Since the ... more info