Perfect Porridge — Yo La Tengo at 80-35 Festival in Des Moines on July 3, 2010. More posts from [...] more info

Pitchfork — Earlier this week, we learned that Guided By Voices would reunite to play Matador's 21st birthday party, which goes down October 1-3 at the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas. But other than frontman Robert Pollard, Guided by Voices has had mor... more info

Pitchfork — UPDATE: Matador has announced the initial lineup for their 21st birthday party. In addition to the reunited GBV ("the Classic '93 - '96 lineup), it also features Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, the Jon Spencer... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-03 Des Moines, IA - Western Gateway Park ! 07-07 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits TV taping 07-08 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre # 07-09 Minneapolis, MN - Basilica Block Party 07-10 Chicago, IL - Old St. Pats Church Block Party ^ 07-11 Lo... more info

Stereogum — Down at Bonnaroo this past weekend, the Lips played the hotly contested midnight hour on Saturday night against the Black Keys and Daryl Hall & Chromeo. We chose to visit Hall’s House because I’ve seen just about enough of Wayne’s ball (and bal... more info

Pitchfork — Right now, the 78th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors is going down in Oklahoma City. And since the Flaming Lips seem to be acting as Oklahoma City's official cultural liaisons these days, why not have Wayne Coyne and co. pro... more info

Time Out, London — Baltimore girl-guy duo play their summery, hazily beautiful and elegantly nostalgic dream-pop, recalling My Bloody Valentine, Mazzy Star and Yo La Tengo. more info

Totally Fuzzy — glenn said... Here's the latest mix. Thanks Fuzz team! 1. "Back in the 60s" - Mystic Surfers - from the 2007 album of the same name - the Mystic Surfers = Merrell Fankhauser 2. "Turn Down Day" - The Cyrkle (Columbia 43729, 1966) - I can't think of a ... more info

Guardian Music — Last time was all about the pleasures of live music. This week, it's songs with minimal lyrical contentBeltway Bandit observed that the "pool of genres might be narrower this week", and his prediction was correct. In fact, one genre stuck out above a... more info

Guardian Music — Live performance is claimed to be the future of the music industry, so it's only appropriate we commemorate its grand history with this crowd-sourced playlistEvery concert is unique. While CDs can be ripped and every MP3 shared, nothing can replicate... more info