Brooklyn Vegan — Dan Deacon's Top 10 albums of 2009 (via) 1. Double Dagger - More 2. Lightning Bolt - Earthy Delights 3. Health - Get Color 4. Ducktails - Landscapes 5. Pictureplane - Dark Rift 6. Javelin - Jamz N Jemz 7.... more info

Guardian Music — Butlins, MineheadA holiday camp in the December drizzle is not the traditional festival setting, but All Tomorrow's Parties has never fitted in the mainstream. Since its beginnings as a Belle and Sebastian-led weekender 10 years ago, the brand has ex... more info

Rock Sellout — Johnny Bell tearing it up and tearing it down! I have never seen Crystal Antlers before. I only got into them six months ago. I will never forget their performance. Maybe I was won over by singer/bass player Johnny Bell (who I interviewed before the ... more info

Guardian Music — Founded in 1981, the same year as the Walkman, this NYC underground label put out cassette-only releases that helped shape the US hardcore punk sceneTapes have always been the lo-fi ruffians of the stereo age. But in the 1980s, the only way you could... more info

Altsounds — *ATP confirm musical line-up for IN BETWEEN DAYS event this December- LIGHTNING BOLT, DIRTY THREE, DEERHOOF & more!* Both the my bloody valentine curated Nightmare Before Christmas and the Ten Years Of ATP festivals happening this December are now s... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Leia Jospe "When you hear the stories that after Hisham Bharoocha left [Lightning Bolt] to form Black Dice, Chippendale took over vocals by jamming the microphone into his mouth, it all seems to make perfect sense. Lightning Bolt... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG DOWNLOAD: Megasus - "Paladin Vs. Berserker" (MP3) Although he plays (an oddly outfitted) bass in Lightning Bolt, Brian Gibson is the DRUMMER for Megasus. While Lightning Bolt toils in the outer reaches of spazzy noise, Megasus is an... more info

Chorus.fm — Max has created a home-made infomercial about the details of the deluxe box set edition of *Say Anything (http://www.sayanythingmusic.com)*'s upcoming self-titled record, which you can watch here (http://www.sayanythingmusic.com/news/maxs-deluxe-edit... more info

Stereogum — So far we've posted "Sound Guardians," the roaring opener from Lightning Bolt's fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights, along with "Colossus," a grinder that earns its name. You'll start understanding the terrain a bit more via "Flood Chamber," this ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Lightning Bolt @ Broadway Backyard in August (more by Leia Jospe) "Fearsome in his trademark hand-made Mexican wrestler mask, Chippendale must have gashed his hand open at one point, and during the set, the yellow electric tape he'd used to... more info