A Deeper Shade of Soul — Talking Heads seem to be in the air these days. Whether in their obvious influence in bands like Vampire Weekend, or David Byrne’s continuing influence as both musician and thinker, their legacy continues to resonate even more powerfully with... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Free MP3 of the Day, New Music Artist: Miike Snow Songs: 'Animal'Album: 'Animal' [iTunes]Sounds Like: Vampire Weekend, Passion PitDownload: 'Animal' (MP3)[Get Winamp] [Download Help] Next MP3 more info

JamBase — By: Dennis Cook The full title of this release offers some tantalizing hints at the contents long before you hear a plinkin' note: The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (released February 3 on Paw Tracks). As one might expe... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — Episode 42 of The Mix Tape Podcast is now available for download!Junior Boys open things up this week with more from their increasingly mesmerising third LP Begone Dull Care. Then comes a minimal remix from Estate of Bam Bam Brother by Madrid, that s... more info

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