Chicago Tribune — Vivian Girls played their songs quickly, and their set Sunday came and went quickly too: a fast, furious, 40-minute flurry of caffeinated tunes delivered to a one-third full house at Empty Bottle. And while the show was brief, it packed enough pep an... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Leia Jospe "Hey everyone! We just started the first leg of our crazy nine week tour (which ends in NYC on Halloween). These next few weeks we will be joined by our brothers, the Beets, on what we've... more info

Pasta Primavera — Tonight in DC Free Energy, a band everyone seems to be talking about, plays the Black Cat with Bear In Heaven and Buildings while Plastiscines, Skeet Skeet, Cobra Starship, and Friday Night Boys play the Rock and Roll Hotel.  Up north in Philadelp... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Vivian Girls @ Whitney in July (more by Anna Scialli) NIN @ Webster Hall the other day (more by Bao Nguyen) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Team Genius @ Monkey Town * Nine Inch Nails, The Horrors @... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Monday: Goes Cube @ Lit 8:30pm $6Here it is folks the unofficial last week of summer! Time to get ready to abandon all these out door venues that have soaked us all summer long with free music and return to the dungeons and clubs we are most used to!... more info

8/1 — olmadı pitchfork, olmadı500. The Big Pink - Velvet499. N.E.R.D. - Run to the Sun [Electronic version]498. Unwound - Scarlette497. Woods - Rain On496. Akufen - Deck the House (Herbert's Stop Like This Mix)495. Weezer - Island in the Sun494. Blon... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — The Babies - "Meet Me in the City"; Basically just by merging members of Woods and Vivian Girls, The Babies guaranteed that people were going to pay attention to them but they also went out and recorded and incredibly catchy song. This tune will be l... more info

Rawkblog — Photo by Sandy Kim The great thing about Album, the debut of Girls (not to be confused with Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Girls Against Boys, Sun City Girls, Girl Talk, Girlsareshort, or groups with actual girls), among its many great things, is that ... more info

Stereogum — According to their MySpace, Babies is the project of Vivian Girls' Cassie Ramone, Woods bassist Kevin Morby, Bossy drummer Justin Sullivan, and Stupid Party's Nathanael Stark on bass. All that said, it'll largely be the songwriting project of Morby, ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Vivian Girls - When I'm Gone (MP3) photos by Joseph Xu, words by Andrew Frisicano 7:07 p.m.: The Vivian Girls put out one of my favorite albums of 2008, and their brief but hard-hitting set [at the Pitchfork Festival]... more info