Brooklyn Vegan — by Dominic Masi, Jr. DOWNLOAD: Stupid Party - 1234 (MP3) "I'm in a more serious relationship with the two of them than I have been with any girlfriend I've ever had in my life. We were all in shittier bands... more info

Rolling Stone — The Band: Liechtenstein The Buzz: The noise pop revival rages on: guitars sticky with distortion and echo-drenched female vocals make for splendid, cotton-candy pop Listen If: You love the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and the Vivian Girls and are won... more info

Culture Bully — The ladies brought their girl group meets punk act to town Tuesday night for a performance at the 7th Street Entry that found me leaving the show as indecisive, in terms of where I stand on the merits of the hype surrounding the young band, as I was ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — WAVVES SUXX (Psychedelic Horseshit) @ BV day party @ Emo's - March 18, 2009 Washington Post: Vivian Girls, Wavves - why is everyone in a lo-fi band now? Psychedlic Horseshit's Matt Whitehurst: I have no idea. I don't know. It... more info

Stereogum — Mr. Blank Dogs has removed the mask for his forthcoming Under And Under, but that doesn't mean he (or at least the male protagonist) and his choreographed KKK-as-Fort Thunder dancers in this crisp back and white Jacqueline Castel-directed video sh... more info

Stereogum — Incorporating a few releases with relatively bigger labels into his extensive discography of limited-edition 12"'s, 7"'s, etc., Brooklyn BTW Blank Dogs is quite literally getting easier to watch. See, for instance, the forthcoming In The Red-impri... more info

Music Mule — What? The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart New York band of the moment Pains Of Being Pure At Heart play beautiful, blissful, distorted guitar pop gems. Their riffs sound like sunshine, their eponymous debut album is set to be a summer favourite for sure... more info

Pasta Primavera — Hells yeah there’s a lot of good going on tonight in Baltimore.  Sonar has one major event with MSTRKRFT, Devlin and Darko, Amanda Blank, and Bird Peterson.  The Ottobar turns it up as well with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Vivian Girls, ... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Stuart Berman says in 1,000 pretentious words what we were already telling ourselves in a sentence: The new PB&J album is a big disappointment.Work it, make it, do it yourself, harder, better, faster, etc etc. Meet iDaft and prepare to waste about ... more info

JamBase — SOME NIFTY SONIC PRESTIDIGITATION FLOATING IN THE ETHER "A variety of romanticized and alienated imagery that's snatched straight from a time when squares were there to be looked at and made strange... Temple's various gifts amplify each other." - P... more info