411 Mania — Thoughts on the Tyondai Braxton and The XX albums, Deerhunter and Oneida live. Plus, news on the new Built To Spill record, new Atlas Sound music, a new R.E.M. live collection, Patrick Wolf apologies, a new album from Do Make Say Think, a gigantic M... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis The Seaport Music Festival may have had it's last show of the season when School of Seven Bells and The XX played last Friday, but there's one more Seaport Music show happening: famously cantankerous rock legend John... more info

8/1 — best new actMP3: The XX - Crystalised more info

Guardian Music — The ghosts of pop stars past and present can be heard in this week's brilliant batch of tunesCalvin Harris – Ready for the WeekendThe adoration of the Bebo generation seems to have gone to this usually self-deprecating singer's head. Having dr... more info

Stereogum — The hotly tipped, self-titled debut from London rockers the XX is out next week on Rough Trade, but you can stream it in full now on NME.com. more info

My Old Kentucky — Radiohead released a new track titled Harry Patch (In Memory Of). According to Dead Air Space, the song is dedicated to the memory of Harry Patch, the last living UK veteran of World War I. Patch, a former plumber who fought at the battle of Passche... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — As synonymous with organisational problems as anything else Field Day has struggled in the two years since its birth. Any worries of a repeat of the Great Toilet Wait of 2008 were soon allayed this year as an abundance of portaloos were dotted around... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The XX, four young, sullen-faced youths dressed in black, have that alluring band-as-a-gang aura about them. They spent their youth at south-west London's Elliott School (fellow alumni: Four Tet, Burial and Hot Chip) obsessively tinkering with instru... more info