Guardian Music — Combing the electronic with the organic, these slippery characters recall several bands – often within the same songHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Sarah Chernoff, Cameron Parkins, Max St John and Evan Weinerman.The background: Every band strives... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — If you like your lo-fi really lo-fi, you'll probably be into this so-in-the-red-it's-bleeding cut from Brooklyn noise-pop upstarts Night Manager. It doesn't look like there are any releases on the horizon from these folks yet, so feel free to blow yo... more info

Perez Hilton — We can't argue with that! It seems The Dream filed divorce papers in February, just nine days before his daughter was born - and Christina Milian is pissed! The singer is claiming that he lied about the status of their marriage and failed to mentio... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Houston, Texas, resident Christopher Laufman makes blown-out, R&B-leaning sample pop as Wise Blood (which may or may not be a Flannery O'Connor reference). "STRT SRNS" and "B.I.G. E.G.O." are taken from Laufman's latest EP, the unGoogably-titled '+',... more info

AOL Music — (July 22) --- As a plus-size fashion model and former eating disorder sufferer, Crystal Renn said she was stunned when a photographer for a charity fashion shoot gave her a digital slim-down that prompted a flurry of questions about her body image. T... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Photo by Seamus McGuire Rising NYC indie-pop outfit Twin Sister just posted this frantic jam from NYC songwriter Davey Jones, who records under the moniker Lost Boy, over at Altered Zones. Twin Sister speculate that Jones might have "taken some bad a... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Brooklyn mystics Beige refer to their sound as, aptly, "the lines and tones of beige". While you're trying to parse that, check out this seven-minute-plus psych-drone epic; it's worth turning up and tuning out to. (via Delicious Scoptione/Altered Zon... more info

AOL Music — (July 10) -- Daniel Cowart, a white supremacist who plotted to kill President Barack Obama, wants to have his tattoos altered before being sent to prison. more info

Guardian Music — The launch of Pitchfork's Altered Zones was met with derision from bloggers sniping about 'traffic-driving ad revenues'. Whatever happened to just discovering new music for fun?Music blogs used to act like online zines, compiling the latest undergrou... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Pitchfork launched Altered Zones yesterday, its collaborative blog project covering small-scale DIY music. Fresh Air reviews and excerpts from David Mitchell's new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. The Georgia Straight interviews Mitchell... more info