NME - The Daily Download — Here are a few new covers to kick off your day. First up we've got Friendly Fires taking on Lady Gaga, over at the Radio 1 Live Lounge. These guys are known to have a fun time while performing (and to show off a few of their signature dance moves in ... more info

Impose Magazine — Yes. And the laundromat. more info

Guardian Music — Ryan Stewart chops and dices 80s R&B with a J Dilla-ish attention to detail to create exquisite slow-motion soulHometown: Springfield, Ohio.The lineup: Ryan Stewart (music, production).The background: We discovered StewRat by chance on the weekend af... more info

Stereogum — We’ve posted a handful of “Wicked Games” covers over the years — by Grimes, Girl Crisis, Giant Drag, and other bands that don’t begin with G — but Washed Out’s take for Sirius XMU’s Sessions is the most lush, as Ernest Greene replaces... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers & contributors are listening to right now... On music blogs over the last couple of years, the roiling debate over a genre ironically titled “chillwave” proved unavoidable. The aesthetic typica... more info

Guardian Music — In this week's programme Yukimi Nagano, vocalist from Swedish band Little Dragon, talks to Jon Dennis about what it was like playing with Gorillaz, and she discusses their new album Ritual Union, out this month.In the studio Alexis Petridis chats wit... more info

Impose Magazine — What a warm week for partying with Pitchforkers, crashing the Con and attending the concurrent Impose Showcase, and sorting through press releases to determine this week's winners in the race to achieve pop mediocrity. We had Jay Z and Kanye keep... more info

Stereogum — Yesterday Diplo stopped dissing M.I.A. for a second to diss Washed Out’s Within And Without. As he punned via Twitter: “Washed out need to put some starch in the wash cause this Álbum sounds kinda limp.” Ditto this: When someone called Diplo a... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Since joining the ranks of NBC singing competition "The Voice," the Southern toughness of Blake Shelton has been softened ever-so-slightly by the coddling corporate environment of a reality series. So perhaps its no coincidence that "Red River Blue,"... more info

Stereogum — Washed Out moved beyond “chillwave” to something sturdier on Within And Without. Toro Y Moi did the same — differently — via his Underneath The Pine. Now it’s time to see if Alan Paloma build upon the success of 2009′s Psychic Chasms and ... more info