Stereogum — This week we ranked Ariel Pink’s albums and March’s metal tracks. GY!BE had our Album Of The Week and Speedy Ortiz dropped our favorite new song. We took Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle to his first pro wrestling show in 35 years. And we scratch... more info

Stereogum — As his band traveled through a lightning storm somewhere in the American Midwest, Ariel “Pink” Rosenberg yelled at me over the telephone. It was April 2005, and I was holed up in the spare bedroom of a rented house in York, PA, repeatedly posing ... more info

Stereogum — Montreal’s No Joy will release a third full-length LP titled More Faithful this June. The record follows 2013’s breakthrough Wait To Pleasure. No Joy recorded More Faithful alongside Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti member Jorge Elbrecht, splittin... more info

Stereogum — We premiered Soko’s excellent new album My Dreams Dictate My Reality back in February, and now she’s shared self-directed a video for one of her two duets with Ariel Pink. “Lovetrap” starts off with a reference to Pink’s own “Kinski Assas... more info

Nialler9 — POD announced that Patti Smith will be in Dublin this summer on on bank holiday Monday June 1st to play her 1975 album Horses in full. The poet, musician and author be joined on the bill by Spiritualized, Ariel Pink and New Secret Weapon. Tickets ar... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Ariel and Rick sharing a smoke in "Dazed Inn Daydreams" video Ariel Pink has worked with director Grant Singer on all the videos from last year's pom pom, a collaboration that continues with the recently released bittersweet... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Long-running, eclectic and generally well-regarded music festival Iceland Airwaves will happen November 5 - 9, 2015 in Reykjavík. They've just announced the initial lineup which includes Ariel Pink, Perfume Genius, GusGus, Spanish bands Mourn and Hi... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Noel Gallagher is on the cover of the new issue of Q, available on newsstands now and digitally.On the eve of his triumphant second solo album, Chasing Yesterday, “The Chief” takes us on a spin around the windmills of his mind and with Liam, Russ... more info

Stereogum — Together, Ariel Pink and director Grant Singer made two of last year’s best music videos. Pink and Singer’s clips for “Put Your Number In My Phone” and “Picture Me Gone” were fascinatingly creepy, mysterious pieces of Kubrick-damaged work... more info

Stereogum — Ariel Pink stars as a Los Angeles taxi driver in the new short film Vagbaond, which was directed by Johann Rashid for Melbourne-based festival Sugar Mountain. It unfolds much like a scripted version of Taxicab Confessions with Pink’s Haunted Graffi... more info