Rolling Stone — Wilco extend their 2010 trek — which includes a free show in celebration of Vancouver’s Winter Olympics — with 16 new U.S. dates. Plus, two up-and-coming indie rock acts plot out their own headlining tours: Surfer Blood hit the road on a jaunt ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire (MP3) Japandroids @ the 2009 Pitchfork Festival (more by Joseph Xu) Japandroids will be busy touring the world in January, February, March and April. They'll visit Russia and Europe and much of the... more info

Rollo & Grady — 50. Electric Tickle Machine – Blew It Again 49. Black Joe Lewis – Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! 48. Harlem – Free Drugs 47. Japandroids – Post-Nothing 46. She Keeps Bees – Nests 45. Califone – All Of My Friends Are Funeral S... more info

Persona Sauna — I've let my obsession with the holidays get to me and not allow for any time to concentrate on keeping updated on music.My apologies.I will be back.In the meantime, here is a nice little list compiled by Spinner of the best songs of 2009. Go over to... more info

Allmusic Blog — The first year of Hot Damn Jamz saw some of our fledgling jamz turn into full-fledged successes: Bibio, La Roux, Girls, Neon Indian and Japandroids are just a few of the acts we featured that went on to stake their places on 2009 best-of lists on All... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week we took a magnifying glass to Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009. Most of those songs appeared on albums, which leads us to the site's Top 50 Albums Of 2009. For starters, metal creeps in via Baroness and Sunn O))), but not Mastod... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Vancouver's Japandroids gave a short performance for the Daytrotter blog, offering a track ("Rockers East Vancouver") from their Best New Music-awarded LP, Post-Nothing (turns out it's one of the first songs they ever wrote), plus a cover of Big Blac... more info

8/1 — 40 Kiss - Sonic Boom39 Wilco - Wilco38 Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap37 Gallows - Grey Britain36 Brakesbrakesbrakes - Touchdown35 Miike Snow - Miike Snow34 Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx33 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You32 U2 - No Line On... more info

8/1 — 50 Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose 49 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 48 Atlas Sound Logos 47 Telepathe - Dance Mother46 Gallows - Grey Britain45 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter44 Oneida - Rated O43 Franz Ferdinand - T... more info

5 Acts — 20. The Horrors - Primary Colours19. Pictureplane - Dark Rift18. The xx - xx17. Phantogram - Eyelid Movies16. Japandroids - Post-Nothing15. Pomegranates - Everybody, Come Outside!14. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart... more info