Stereogum — Fargo, North Dakota trio Secret Cities used to go by the name White Foliage. The new moniker makes more sense with the multi-hued heartbreaking pop songs that appear on their official Secret Cities debut Pink Graffiti. We’re told the highly ambitio... more info

Guardian Music — Can you picture a mini-pop orchestra who operate as a benign totalitarian dictatorship? That's this Welsh 14-pieceHometown: Cardiff. The lineup: Spencer McGarry (vocals, piano, guitar), Avvon Chambers (drums), Rebecca Wood (vocals), Charlie Francis (... more info

Guardian Music — From St Winifred's School Choir to Hanson, are children's angelic voices really the most hated sound in pop?What is it? Children! Singing! Er, obviously. Singing kids have surfaced in one-off singles by many bands since Pink Floyd's 1979 youth-refuse... more info

Pitchfork — Chillwave forefather Ariel Pink and his band Haunted Graffiti are ready to release their first album for 4AD, dubbed Before Today and due out June 8 on CD, LP, and MP3. According to a press release, some of the 12-track album was recorded in Tito Jac... more info

Guardian Music — A new indie sound is emerging – from behind closed doorsIn 1963, as a decade of dedicated debauchery began to find its stride, Brian Wilson recorded one of the least rock'n'roll-sounding songs of all time. The Beach Boys' "In My Room" was a hy... more info

Pop Crunch — Has years of yoyo dieting and fluctuating weight finally taken its toll on former Wilson-Phillips singer Carnie Wilson? The daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson has battled with her weight for decades and even famously underwent gastric bypas... more info

Popdose — It’s difficult not to look at Jan Berry and Brian Wilson as spiritual twins. Berry was a budding studio genius, starting raw with doo-wop bands but eventually teaming with Dean Torrence. They fell into the company of Wilson and the result was the s... more info

Guardian Music — James Murphy tells Zane Lowe: 'We'll do exactly what we want and go out happy'LCD Soundsystem's upcoming third album will be their last. James Murphy has made good on a string of earlier comments, confirming plans to wrap up the project "and then go ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — With his band, the Guillemots, Fyfe Dangerfield zeroed in on that moment of the musical day between the darkness of Morrissey's melancholy night and the dawn of Brian Wilson's sunny early confectionary pop. On this delightfully scrappy, self-released... more info

Guardian Music — These drowsy, hazy songs suggest an alternate reality Brian Wilson making crackly, cheapo synth ditties in his bedroomHometown: Akron, Ohio.The lineup: Keith Freund, Linda Lejsovka, Mike Tolan.The background: Trouble Books might make a mockery on the... more info