LargeHeartedBoy — James Salter reads "Break It Down," a short story by Lydia Davis, at the Guardian. NPR Music is streaming Eleanor Friedberger's new album, Personal Record. Biographile interviews Allan Barra about his new book, Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the... more info

DrownedInSound — This week Camera Obscura have penned a royally good track about unrequited affection, Laura Marling has harked back to her new folk guise with a Bruce Springsteen cover and Book Of Love are here with their first ever single of winsome retromania. Al... more info

Consequence of Sound — Switching gears for Desire Lines' second single. more info

Prefix — Scottish indie pop vets Camera Obscura are back with a new single titled "Do It Again" and it finds them ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media/camera-obscura/do-it-again/73450/ more info

Consequence of Sound — Our first taste of Desire Lines. more info

Consequence of Sound — The Scottish group also announce dates with She & Him. more info

Guardian Music — Tennis Origins/Deep In The Woods (ATP) Dragging the pretty and pasty-limbed Britpop of the Sundays and Camera Obscura on an east coast road trip, this fuzzy, cutesy, cosy and kitsch double A-side from Colorado husband-and-wife duo Tennis is the sort ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Though Bear Ceuse is a young artist group, the music shows a lyrical and constructional maturity. At times he seems as if this is the male answer to Camera Obscura, but chorus crescendos in tunes such as “Vodka Day Parade” prove them to be more ... more info

Guardian Music — You suggested songs that celebrate the year's turning. Warning: blog contains numerous references to wassailingIt's not every day we usher in a new year. (It's every year.) So a new year requires something big-sounding to mark the occasion. George Ha... more info

Guardian Music — For Howler, comparisons with compatriots the Strokes are inevitable – the young Americans unashamedly raid rock history"I'll take it as a compliment," shrugs Howler's Jordan Gatesmith, of the growing pile of articles favourably comparing his band t... more info