The Music Fix — Dominic Hemy goes intergalatic space-hopping. more info

Guardian Music — Larmer Tree Gardens, North DorsetSo joyfully varied is the lineup at the much-loved End of the Road festival that themes emerge by chance. So it proved this year: where one visitor might have seen it as an event strong on acoustic Americana, another ... more info

Guardian Music — The Rapture, On tourAs amazing as their synthesis of punk and funk was, the two elements were always at war within the music of the Rapture. Emerging under the aegis of James Murphy's DFA records, their House Of Jealous Lovers single honoured their o... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The guitar-driven fuzz rock band from San Francisco rolls into Echo Park prior to the September 13 release of their new album, "The West." more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Those of you interested in distorted guitar mantras -- the kind that the Velvet Underground, Can, Spacemen 3 perfected, in which a relentlessly circular groove is established and its innards are examined over the course of the song -- could... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Wooden Shjips - "Lazy Bones" (MP3) Psychedelics Wooden Shjips are preparing their new LP West for release on 9/13 via Thrill Jockey. Download "Lazy Bones" from the LP above and check out the first video from the record "Black... more info

Altsounds — Harvest Sun Promotions presents... WOODEN SHJIPS THE FRESH & ONLY'S MUGSTAR | DJ BERNIE CONNOR 8pm, Tuesday 6 September @ The Kazimier Tickets £10adv from Seetickets, Ticketline & Probe Records (School Lane) Cult San Franciscan psych-tran... more info

Guardian Music — (Thrill Jockey)How important is the idea of the song to Wooden Shjips? Not at all, judging from the last track on their third album. Initially, it seems Rising is just more fuzzed guitars and narcotised vocals. Then it becomes apparent the percussion... more info

DrownedInSound — Wooden Shjips have perfected their art. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

We Like it Lossless! — Holy Mountain / 2009f potential were a physical substance, it would've dripped like melted wax from Wooden Shjips' 2006 debut 10". The three-song slab of raw, noisy grooves was so bursting with ideas, it suggested a lifetime of musical possibiliti... more info