Stereogum — The noise wrangler and sometime pop balladeer who brought Wilco and Sonic Youth to new creative peaks before decamping to Japan returns to song-based solo material with Visitors (Drag City, 9/8). Last year he promised "pretty much everyone is going t... more info

Detroit Free Press — LOS ANGELES -- Visitors to the Getty Center art complex, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains. The fire was 90% contained late Wednes... more info

L.A. Times - News — Visitors at the Getty Museum and Mount St. Mary's College are ushered from the facilities. The apparent accidental blaze shut down part of Sepulveda Boulevard and two 405 offramps. ... more info

L.A. Times - News — Visitors say the arduous climb to the top, closed since the Sept. 11 attacks, is worth it. Officials say the reopening represents a new American era. For the f... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Last night the Arctic Monkeys kicked off their european festival summer tour in Poland. At the Open’er festival they played 4 songs off of Humbug: Crying Lightning, Pretty Visitors, Potion Approaching, and Secret Door. Thankfully someone decided to... more info

All About Jazz — Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz (allaboutjazz.com) reached a record high traffic day on Wednesday, July 1st reaching 102,570 visitors. As reported by AWStats Advertise at AAJ! Start your ad campaign at AllAboutJazz.com and reach the largest coll... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — While reading various forums I found out that the band had put a video up showing about 30 seconds of the band playing “Pretty Visitors”. The sound of it was kinda muffled, but that was ok since we already have heard it from them on live vids. To... more info

JamBase — EXTENSIVE WEB OVERHAUL TO FEATURE DEBUT OF RECORD CLUB Beck & Friends Form Music Club To Re-Record Entire Albums In One-Day Sessions and Post a Track a Week Beck Beck.com will be undergoing an extensive overhaul in the next month. It will f... more info

All About Jazz — Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz (allaboutjazz.com) reached a record high traffic day on Tuesday, June 9th reaching 91,484 visitors. As reported by AWStats Advertise at AAJ! Start your ad campaign at AllAboutJazz.com and reach the largest collect... more info

Guardian Music — It's called Humbug – but what does it all mean, maan?Arctic Monkeys titles have always prompted a bit of speculation. When they first arrived, they were happy to tell us that whatever we said they were, that's what they were not. Which was wei... more info