Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Rolling Stone released it's reader's rock list for top Album Cover Artwork of 2008. Oasis' cover for Dig Out Your Soul made the top ten at # 910 Top Album Covers Of 200810: Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping09: Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul08: The Raconteurs, ... more info

Buzzgrinder — :: The Gummy Award winners have been announced. Fleet Foxes won most inoffensively mediocre best album. And Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) was voted the number one male indie rock crush. If he won, I can't imagine the majority of voters were women. At le... more info

Pitchfork — Live music on T.V. this week: Monday, December 8: CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: the Duke Spirit Syndicated: The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Beyonce FUEL TV: The Daily Habit: Aesop Rock (rerun) Tuesday, December 9: CURRENT: La Blogotheque: Fleet F... more info

Pitchfork — Live music on T.V. this week: Monday, December 8: CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: the Duke Spirit Syndicated: The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Beyonce FUEL TV: The Daily Habit: Aesop Rock (rerun) Tuesday, December 9: CURRENT: La Blogotheque: Fleet F... more info

The Lemur Blog — Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (zshare)Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (ysi)Christmas tip: Give this to the depressed Christmas hater. He/she will brighten up and still connect to the alternative not all too bright Christmas sound. more info

Rock Sellout — I’m not sure if age has anything to do with it or not, but I found my listening preferences gravitating towards the folkier releases this year: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, The DoDos, and Blitzen Trapper being a few of the artists I held near and dear in... more info

Paste Magazine — Look, no one is cooler than John Lennon, and his version of “Happy Xmas/War is Over” is swell. It’s just that we’ve heard it every year, over and over, on every radio station in America. It’s time for Burl Ives and Brenda Lee and Bing Crosb... more info

The Lemur Blog — Tracklist1. Sun It Rises (3:11)2. White Winter Hymnal (2:27)3. Ragged Wood (5:07)4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (3:28)5. Quiet Houses (3:32)6. He Doesn't Know Why (3:20)7. Heard Them Stirring (3:02)8. Your Protector (4:09)9. Meadowlarks (3:11)10. Blu... more info

Rolling Stone — “You’ve shown us what happens when people rise together, work together and dream together,” Brer Rabbit of indie hip-hop group Flobots said at Tipitina’s in New Orleans Thursday night. He was one of 10 musicians who visited the Crescent City ... more info

ROBIN Pecknold tells SFTW the story behind Seattle's indie-folk sensations Fleet Foxes more info