Bridging The Atlantic — Has anyone else picked up on the impatience of the music press right now? Over the last couple of week's journos have been falling over themselves to proclaim the best albums of the year so far, even though it's only June. Here's a selection that's c... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Animal Collective @ Celebrate Brooklyn 2009 (more by Ryan Muir) today in NYC * Monogold @ Pianos * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Gregory Attonito @ Watermark (NJ) * Tell All Your Friends @ Lolita Bar * Peter Frampton... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Panda Bear @ MHOW (more by Amanda Hatfield) Panda Bear brought Tomboy's opening track, "You Can Count On Me," to Fallon last night (7/11) with Tomboy-producer Sonic Boom (Peter Kember of Spacemen 3) and ODDSAC-director Danny Perez on visuals. Video..... more info

Stereogum — “Founding member of the influential band Animal Collective” Noah Lennox’s has upped his live game by including producer and founding member of the influential band Spaceman 3 Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember onstage. Folks at Panda Bear’s 3rd of... more info

Indie Selections For Your Erections — 2011 Fourth of July Mix!!! 1. Matmos - The Stars and Stripes Forever2. Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July3. X - Fourth of July4. Bruce Springsteen - 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)5. Ryan Adams - Firecracker6. The Decemberists - July, July!7. Si... more info

Guardian Music — Listen now – before the sun goes away – to the gorgeous sounds of Washed Out, leading proponents of chillwaveThe sultry weather demands some kind of response – and so it is that we bring you the debut album from Washed Out. Since June 2009, Ern... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Young bands including Animal Collective, Blues Control and others are incorporating sounds from the much disparaged genre.In late 2009, noise-pop group Animal Collective followed up its critics-poll-topping album "Merriweather Post Pavilion" with a s... more info

DrownedInSound — Let's not beat around the bush here - this is preeeeeety late. Er, yes, sorry about that, but hey ho - remember when there used to be ATPs in May? If not, here's a reminder! Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Bono and the boys are in the headline slot at Worthy Farm on Friday… but should they be?Kitty Empire, Observer pop criticLast week, Glastonbury supremo Michael Eavis griped that booking the Wombles to play the legendary pop festival had been a mist... more info

Guardian Music — August 2000: Number 42 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe noughties phenomenon of blog-rock wasn't born with a bang – for certain, no Strokes-style changing of the guard took place. Yet it was unquestionably one of ... more info