LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming R.E.M.'s 2-disc, 40-song overview of their career, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (out November 15th). Tom Perrotta discusses his new novel The Leftovers with the National Post. "Some writers are not afraid to be... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The band says goodbye with a career-spanning retrospective, which features three new songs. R.E.M.'s final release, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 (out Nov. 15), is a career-spanning greatest-hits compilation. Read m... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Previous posts featuring Curve have proven popular in the past.  Hope today's continues that trend.For newer readers, Curve comprised of Toni Halliday and multi-instrumentalist Dean Garcia, and formed in Manchester in 1991. At a time when the Madche... more info

Guardian Music — Great British Food Revival | The Impressions Show | Frozen Planet | Hot Like Us | Imagine: And Then There Was Television | The Pretenders & FriendsGreat British Food Revival8pm, BBC2The championing of good old British cuisine continues with a geogr... more info

Altsounds — Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982- 2011, the definitive R.E.M. greatest hits collection coming 11/15/2011. Watch Hollywood actress *Kirsten Dunst* in the video for *REM*'s farewell single 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong'. R.... more info

Perez Hilton — We don't know what it is about this that we love so much, but we can't help it! So, so pretty! Check out the music video for R.E.M.'s final single, We All Go Back To Where We Belong, which will be featured on their greatest hits album Part Lies, Part... more info

Dlisted — And imagine if you saw this vision live and in person..... The lucky soul who did probably had the day's shit covering his retinas and it all melted onto the 1-ply carpet as soon as he swung open the doors to the Kinko's (please don't ... more info

Stereogum — R.E.M.’s greatest-hits collection Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982- 2011 arrives next month, and it features the new single “We All Go Back To Where We Belong,” which the band recorded just before breaking up. The band has n... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — The following is a guest post from our friends at Luckymag.com. Lana Del Rey, the voice behind hit song "Video Games," has been getting a lot of flack in the music blogosphere. Initially positioned as an indie artist named Lizzy Grant, it's fairly o... more info

Stereogum — U2 were awarded the Greatest Act Of The Last 25 Years at this week’s Q Awards. The mag lovefest continues today with the newsstand release of issue #305, which is mounted with AHK-toong BAY-bi, an original tribute CD to Achtung Baby. We’ve heard ... more info