Pitchfork - TV — — The Brooklyn freakniks might take the Most Surreal Video of the Year award for this mind-squishing adventure. Director: Radical Friend. more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — It's about that time of year when you give up on anything more from this one than Christmas parties, the making of endless lists and three days of drinking wine for breakfast and eating like you've got five stomachs. But! There's always the imminen... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I normally move away quickly to the opposite corner of the record shop as fast as I can if someone points in the direction of a charity record, for almost without exception they are well-meaning but crap.But not Dark Was The Night, a 2CD release fro... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Two of my favorite bands both have tickets going on sale this week: Hot Chip and Magnetic Fields. They also both have new albums coming out next year. Hurrah! Those tickets and more on sale now: The Cribs at Irving Plaza on January 17. Tickets Vampi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the three upcoming Vampire Weekend shows in NYC (United Palace, Bowery Ballroom, and Webster Hall) Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two Magnetic Fields shows happening at Town Hall. BAM tickets... more info

Abeano — Have you seen the experimental video Yeasayer have put up yet? Like a combination of Led Zep’s ‘House Of Holy’ album cover, a Kenneth Anger Film and every home movie you’ve accidentally seen (and rather forget) of yo... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — What's with all the NSFW videos of naked people running around in fields and forests hitting the web these days? Has this replaced hand-drawn animation as the new cool indie video fad? All that's not to undervalue Yeasayer's new video (up at their ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are now on AmEx presale for the two just-announced February Yeasayer album release shows. Like before, they're still giving away the song "Ambling Alp", but now you download it while listening to trippy background music and attempting to... more info

Stereogum — There's a progression at play here. There was Sigur Rós filming hairless young things frolicking in the woods for "Gobbledigook," surpassed many months later by Girls' XXX "Lust For Life" video featuring Hunx's junk, which itself was trumped by... more info

NME — Band to play two hometown New York gigs more info