Rolling Stone — • Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous Takes Own Life • News Ticker: Arcade Fire, Phish, D’Angelo • Spring Music Preview 2010 • Corgan on Critics, Simpson: Preview the Story • Keith Richards on Sobriety Rumors, New LP • Animal Collective @ Gug... more info

Rolling Stone — Arcade Fire have booked their first 2010 live date: a spot headlining Dublin’s Oxegen Festival, NME reports. Jay-Z, Muse, Broken Social Scene, Vampire Weekend and the Black Eyed Peas are also confirmed for the event, which takes place July 8-11th. ... more info

XFM.co.uk — The band are to play the Irish festival this July... more info

NME — Band announce first show of 2010 more info

Gigwise — Fatboy Slim also joins the bill... more info

The Playlist — Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski has replaced Owen Pallett for the score of John Mitchell Cameron's upcoming drama "Rabbit Hole" according to MovieScore.Final Fantasy mastermind and infrequent Arcade Fire member Pallett previously revealed he had be... more info

Guardian Music — Peter Gabriel's 'song swap' project, Scratch My Back ... I'll Scratch Yours, has not materialised as planned, with artists either missing deadlines or refusing to participateThe flip side of Peter Gabriel's recent covers album, Scratch My Back, with ... more info

Stereogum — Peter Gabriel recorded “My Body Is A Cage,” now he wants a little reciprocation. “Games Without Frontiers” is from Gabriel’s 1980 self-titled album. No firm release date yet for this companion album to Scratch My Back (in fact, Regina Spekt... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — There seems to be two motivations behind Peter Gabriel's new album, one playful and the other more serious. The first gives the project its title: Gabriel covered compositions by 12 working artists, including David Bowie, Neil Young, Arcade Fire and.... more info

Troubled Souls Unite — I've always loved La-Blogotheque. As the site that originally turned me on to the Fleet Foxes, The Tallest Man on Earth, Arcade Fire, and Delta Spirit, I owe much of my current musical taste to them.And so, I must share their Local Natives sessions w... more info