Indie Selections For Your Erections — Wow, first week of August! Even though I threw together this playlist relatively quickly the previous night, I think this show turned out really well. It consists of three main blocks: a female vocalist blo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Peter Wolf @ Highline Ballroom in 2010 (more by Jacob Blickenstaff) J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, who we last saw when he was a guest of Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's for Hanukkah, went on a short tour this... 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

NME - The Daily Download — In 2009 New Jersey band Real Estate released their self titled LP.  A  collection of tracks they'd gathered together from limited edition vinyl releases, home recorded mp3s and live shows, they sang about the angst of being a teen from the suburbs ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The National at Coachella 2011 (more by David Andrako) The National and Yo La Tengo are both on tour this summer, mostly separately, but will play a few dates together with Wye Oak in September including two at Academy of... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Architecture in Helsinki is an Australian band based in the inner Melbourne suburb of Northcote. The group consists of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland. Moment Bends is the fourth album by Architecture in ... more info

Guardian Music — 21 June 2009: Number 49 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicLong after the last chord, people were still crowding down the aisles of the Royal Festival Hall in London to get close to jazz's greatest surviving revolutionary... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonAn indie institution 27 years in the making, Yo La Tengo are gloriously unpredictable. It's often said that no two shows by the New Jersey trio are alike. This is nowhere more apparent than at Sunday's Meltdown show, titled... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I fear, dear readers, that the Sunday Correspondents series is coming to an end.The cupboard was already very bare when I sent out a note asking for contributions consisting of great songs with crap videos.  Only two suggestions came forward - The R... more info

Song, by Toad — If you’re reading this for tips, I’m afraid you’ve already missed the best gig in Edinburgh this week: Yo La Tengo at the Queen’s Hall, tonight.  Sorry about that. There’s not much else, unfortunately, although Sneaky’s have Talons, Lady... more info