Stereogum — In January, Brooklyn Academy of Music announced that it would host a spring festival curated by the National’s Bryce and Aaron Dessner, and today that event, called Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (a reference to this Whitman poem), announced it’s full l... more info

Guardian Music — The Sheffield duo have left twee behind. Would you believe they're now rocking out, relatively speakingNearly every review of Slow Club's first album, Yeah, So, referred to the Sheffield duo as twee. For their follow-up – last year's excellent Para... more info

Stereogum — Name: The Walkmen Progress Report: Band gets to work with Phil Ek on forthcoming studio album. Aside from taking a victory lap around North America to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, mem... more info

Stereogum — The 11th annual Sasquatch! Music Festival returns to The Gorge in George, WA this Memorial Day Weekend (5/25-5/28) with a lineup featuring headliners Jack White, Beck, and Bon Iver. Also on board: the Shins, Girl Talk, Portlandia Live, Feist, St. Vin... more info

Guardian Music — This three-piece rock band from Dublin will shiver your timbers with their primeval sound and on-stage pirate banterHometown: Dublin.The lineup: Mark Austin (vocals, guitar), Tom Cosgrave (bass, backing vocals), Shane Kinsella (drums, backing vocals)... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The Walkmen have long employed mood and atmosphere into their sound as if they were a sixth member; as such they deftly capture the bittersweet, slightly inebriated, tone of “the holidays.” The below is their own take on the festivities courtesy ... more info

Guardian Music — Swaggering Irish rock band with songs to back up the attitude. Last single, Black Keys, could point you in the right directionWho are they?A Dublin three-piece, comprising Mark Austin, the "spiv with a six-string razor", Shane Kinsella with "sidebur... more info

Stereogum — Recently, Insound announced its Delicious Design League Project where they commissioned the Chicago design firm Delicious Design League to create their own band t-shirts for Best Coast, the Walkmen, the Antlers, Smith Westerns and Washed Out. And now... more info

Altsounds — Following numerous European jaunts, tours with *The Walkmen, The Decemberists* and *Okkervil River*, playing for *Wills & Kate* on their recent trip to Canada, award nominations and appearances at *Glastonbury* and *End of the Road*, *Dan Mangan* has... more info

Guardian Music — The music and clubbing scene in Vegas attracts the world's very biggest names to its dive bars, outrageous clubs and chillaxin' venues, say Chuckmonster and Spencer Patterson• As featured in our Las Vegas city guideThe Joint at the Hard Rock HotelW... more info