Abeano — ‘Something Good Can Work’ is the first single proper from Two Door Cinema Club. A three piece from Bangor, Northern Ireland, they manage to meld the best bits of Postal Service and some Vampire Weekend influenced guitar into one of the first... more info

Stereogum — Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, aka Bloodshy & Avant, have joined forces with Fires of Rome/Downtown's in-house producer Andrew Wyatt to form the band Miike Snow. Their self-titled debut's not out until 6/9 (Downtown), in th... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Clash of the Cover SongsThe Rules for Battle: Each week, we pit versions of the same song by two different artists in a head-to-head death match for musical supremacy. (Sometimes it will be the original recording vs. a cover version; oth... more info

Pitchfork — Time for another tobacco ad-related indie rock controversy! Remember when Rolling Stone and Camel featured a whole gang of bands in their "Indie Rock Universe" fold-out advertisement, pissing some bands off to the point where Fucked Up and Xiu Xiu ... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Tonight is the annual industry back scratch awards known to bored ITV viewers as 'The Brits'. James Cordon and Mat Horne are presenting with Kylie Minogue involved somehwhere along the line. You can see the nominees here. Performances are due from La... more info

Idolator — Continuum's 33 1/3 series, in which a book is given over to an appraisal of an album, once again opened the floor for proposals last year, and the publishers got 597 of 'em in response. And our peanut gallery discussed what they wanted to pitch, and... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Free MP3 of the DaySpinner.com: Artist: Abe Vigoda Songs: 'Don't Lie' Album: 'Reviver' [iTunes] Sounds Like: No Age, Vampire Weekend Download: 'Don't Lie' (MP3) [Get Winamp] [Download Help] Next MP3... Read more more info

Guardian Music — More likely to be caught in bed with a Goethe than a groupie, today's bands are bigger bookworms than at any time since Cabaret Voltaire and Killing An Arab. "Boy meets girl" just doesn't cut the mustard and the album charts resemble the first-year r... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin "It's been 10 years since Tibet was the hot issue in the rock community, but some stars still carry the torch. One of the biggest forums for this activism is the annual Tibet House benefit in... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin "It's been 10 years since Tibet was the hot issue in the rock community, but some stars still carry the torch. One of the biggest forums for this activism is the annual Tibet House benefit in... more info