Mercury News, California — Arcade Fire is on a quest to become North America's most important band.Win Butler, the Montreal group's vocalist and resident visionary, would probably never outline Arcade Fire's mission in that fashion. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Peter Hughes talks to Move about the evolution of the Mountain Goats. Granta names the best young Spanish-language novelists. On sale for $3.99 at Amazon MP3: The Arcade Fire's 10-track Funeral album. The Boston Globe profiles Gayngs. Falling somewhe... more info

Undercover, Australia — Canadian indie pop icon Owen Pallett is heading to Australia in January in support of his latest record ‘Heartland’. more info

Guardian Music — Shape-note singing was America's first music craze, and 150 years on, it's still going. Alfred Hickling tries itIn a disused chapel in Gateshead, the chairs have been set out for an unusual form of service. Members of the congregation sit on four sid... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — If they chose to cover this song the other night at Terminal 5 because they knew it would get blogged about, good idea (though maybe the idea was just related to the name of their new album). Spike Lee-directed... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — John Legend and The Roots put together a cover album titled Wake Up. Their cover of Arcade Fire didn’t end up making the album, but it didn’t stop them from covering it live at Terminal 5 last week. Spike Lee directed the clip and the rest of the... more info

Stereogum — Arcade Fire were the stars of the Terry Gilliam-directed first installment of American Express, VEVO, and YouTube’s five-part UNSTAGED series. They show up in this new edition, too, via John Legend & The Roots’ cover of “Wake Up.” It took pla... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — My live blogging of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs got a good reaction, so I figured I’d give it another go with another big album leak. I was watching the Yankees pretty pathetic display against the Red Sox today when my buddy Brent from One Thirty B... more info

Guardian Music — Watch, bookmark and send to your pals: it's like The Box, only way cooler1 RATATAT - DRUGSSometimes it's the simplest ideas that work best. For this creepy, Lynch-style outing, director Carl Burgess trawled stock footage of grinning actors in the Get... more info

Guardian Music — Your definitive guide to the best new talent in music video starts hereFrom lo-fi web sensations to mega-budget epics, music videos have been freed from the shackles of the MTV playlist. And haven't we come a long way from Bohemian Rhapsody and that ... more info