Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the James Blake show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the newly Universal Republic-signed The Weeknd's show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the New Yorker Festival... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — via @bangzy_ Tickets for Tom Tom Club's show at Brooklyn Bowl are on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at Brooklyn Bowl go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the James Blake... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — James Blake at MHOW in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Earlier this month, we mentioned that James Blake will be announcing a tour soon where he will showcase music from his next album, which includes a NYC show happening on... more info

Guardian Music — The xx, On tourA lot of groups talk about going back to basics, but the achievement of this London band was to purge their sound of superfluous elements before they recorded a note. The vocals are allowed to morosely intone tales of emotional drama a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — via @sarajanedempsey Tickets for the James Blake show at MHOW go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Divine Fits and Cold Cave show at Webster Hall go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the recently added Swans... more info

Impose Magazine — The lotus eating masses gathered at Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles for the 8th annual FYF fest. For those that arrived earlier, they were treated by last minute addition The Orwells or overheard White Arrows cover Springsteen's "I'm On... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — via @edroste Tickets for the James Blake show at MHOW go on AmEx presale today at noon. Tickets for the Divine Fits and Cold Cave show at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today at noon. Tickets for the recently... more info

XLR8R — Jealov sent over a cut from its upcoming Nyche EP (out October 23 via Mush). The elusive trio—Yann-Alex Janssens, Rick Roels, and Mathieu Seynaeve—hails from Brussels, and its dizzying production style seems to be inspired by the different kinds ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Blake confirms one December show, with more to come. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — James Blake at MHOW in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) We haven't heard much from James Blake this year, who released one of our favorite albums of 2011. We know that he's been working on a follow up to that... more info