Guardian Music — A Vancounver-based blogger writes about 'a life in love with music'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Mikala Taylor and my site's called BackstageRider.Where are you based?Vancouver, Canada but I have a lot of readers in the US and the UK.De... more info

Stereogum — Bastille is the stage name of Dan Smith, an electronic musician beginning to make some noise in London with his syrupy indie pop takes. A full-length is due later this year, but in the meantime he’ll put out a single, “Overjoyed,” in August tha... more info

Guardian Music — Other performers at Suffolk festival include Bat for Lashes, classical pianist Lang Lang, and professor Brian CoxElbow, Bon Iver and Paul Weller will top the bill at the 2012 Latitude festival. Southwold's Henham Park will host dozens of musicians, w... more info

Stereogum — Yesterday, the Brooklyn Academy of Music announced the lineup for the National-curated Crossing Brooklyn Ferry fest, a roster which included Sinkane, aka Yeasayer multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab. Late last year, we heard a cut called from the prol... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Sinkane, who you may know as current Yeasayer drummer/former touring drummer for Of Montreal and Caribou, Ahmed Gallab, is set to release his third LP, Mars, which is due out sometime this year. He's got a few... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ava Luna are one of SPiN's favorite new bands of the moment, a beaming mix of ice-cool vintage '80s no wave grooves and extra-lush three-part girl group harmonies. Touch points include TV on the Radio, Dirty Projectors, and Yeasayer, but tha... more info

Guardian Music — Music bloggers tell us about their labours of loveWho are you and what's your blog called?I'm a man named Sean and I write for Said the Gramophone. (NB Sean is also our north American news correspondent)Where are you based?I live in Montreal, Canada.... more info

Chorus.fm — You can watch the trailer to indie film Dosa Hunt here (http://dosahunt.tumblr.com/), which features members of Yeasayer, Das Racist, Neon Indian, Vampire Weekend, and Amrit from Stereogum (http://www.stereogum.com). more info

Stereogum — Since last summer, our Amrit Singh has been putting together an independent short film called Dosa Hunt, with Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri and Ashok Kondabolu, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder, Neon Indian’s Alan Pal... more info

Stereogum — A little while ago, Fanfarlo dropped the pulsating “Shiny Things,” and on the day of that single’s release Yeasayer comes through with a remix of the track. Yeasayer takes the trap and warps it, imbuing the track with a psychedelic, pitch-shift... more info