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

JamBase — THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, DEVENDRA BANHART, ETIENNE DE CRECY THE ORB, MURDER CITY DEVILS, BUSY P AND PLUMP DJs ADDED TO THE COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2009 APRIL 17, 18 AND 19 Coachella 2008 by Dave Vann The Chemical Brothers (DJ ... more info

The Lipster — London-dwelling club-hoppers may be aware of the monthly Ghost School night, which has played host to the likes of Vivian Girls and Stricken City. They've got one coming up this Friday, and to celebrate, we asked them to make us an extra-special excl... more info

The Culture Of Me — Coming soon to Austin's Waterloo Park on the first day of spring, March 21, the dudes from F Yeah Fest bring the third annual edition of "Mess With Texas".  And holy hell is the line-up nine times ridiculous, including the likes of: The Black ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As previously mentioned, Times New Viking are playing a show with the Vivian Girls at Bowery Ballroom on May 11th (tix). Ends up, they're also playing a show in Brooklyn at Market Hotel one day earlier (more details TBA).... more info

JamBase — PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FRIDAY'S LINEUP PLUS SELECT ACTS PERFORMING SATURDAY & SUNDAY Built To Spill The 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival - to be held in Chicago's Union Park Friday, July 17 - Sunday, July 19 - is announcing the first rou... more info

Pitchfork — Last week, we announced that the fourth annual Pitchfork Music Festival would jump off at Chicago's lovely Union Park July 17-19. If the mere fact that our festival is happening again wasn't enough to convince you to save the date and book any nece... more info