Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: My Brightest Diamond: Tainted Love (Soft Cell/Gloria Jones cover) (MP3) My Brightest Diamond is playing a show with Clare & the Reasons at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on December 13th. Tickets are on sale. In other MBD news,[the... more info

My Old Kentucky — The first Guilt By Association covers compilation was pretty popular round these parts. It must have been elsewhere too because they're back for a second batch.Engine Room Recordings gives us a nice little preview by allowing you stream the entire s... more info

Pitchfork — Cover your faces while you cover your favorites: it's time for a sequel to Guilt by Association, the 2007 comp from Engine Room Recordings that had folks like Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, and Superchunk totally putting their cred on the line by tak... more info

Pitchfork — Cover your faces while you cover your favorites: it's time for a sequel to Guilt by Association, the 2007 comp from Engine Room Recordings that had folks like Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, and Superchunk totally putting their cred on the line b... more info

The World Forgot — I recently switched out a load of albums I had in my car and I’ve found myself listening to the latest Frightened Rabbit album, The Midnight Organ Fight (amazon) (itunes), almost continually.  I know I mentioned this album just a bit over two mo... more info

Stereogum — In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, Frightened Rabbit, an... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Scotland's Frightened Rabbit's great performance at Austin's Fun Fun Fun fest on Sunday was also their last on their most recent North American tour with the Spinto Band. It won't be their last for lon... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Scotland's Frightened Rabbit's great performance at Austin's Fun Fun Fun fest on Sunday was also their last on their most recent North American tour with the Spinto Band. It won't be their last for long... more info

Paste Magazine — The Spinto Band, besides being the sextetist group ever to emerge from Delaware (sorry, Thorogood ), are six of America's foremost purveyors of power-pop. You may recall the group's "Oh Mandy"—the catchiest song about an Amanda since Manilow's ma... more info

Said the Gramophone — Buraka Som Sistema - "General". Each of us have busy days, today. I have to wake up, clouds greying through the window, and get out of bed, and write this post, and work, and have a coffee, and call my grandparents, and research lodging & eating in P... more info