Guardian Music — While Calexico sing about silver trees and Lesser Panda eat bamboo standing up, MGMT pick ants off plants, and the Sugababes fail to come up with anything original (again) more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, ExclusiveSpinner.com: On Monday, New York City's breakout indie combo Vampire Weekend walked the red carpet at London's Q Awards. The event saw the four-piece brush shoulders with the likes of the Who's Roger D... more info

Stereogum — Friday night, before their official show at the Aragon, tourmates Beck and MGMT teamed up for an early evening set of covers/originals. (We know this because Nick B. tipped us.) The evening was organized by the Chicago radio station WXRT and took pl... more info

JamBase — By: Greg Caruso & Jon Claffey Street Scene :: 09.19.08 & 09.20.08 :: East Village & Petco Park :: San Diego, CA Street Scene 2008 :: Street Scene® As usual in Southern California at this time of year, the weather could not be more perfect... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, ExclusiveSpinner.com: Weeks after spending most of their summer on the festival circuit, New York City's MGMT jumped on tour supporting Beck earlier this fall. The trek has taken the duo of Andrew VanWyngarden ... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — So, I was wracking my brain trying to come up with something original or interesting for the Friday Five; this is the result.  Feeling inspired by all the shows I'm going to see in the next few days I decided to feature a track from each artist, o... more info

Nialler9 — Nice unofficial remix from one James Rutledge of The Kills. He turns the original from a barn-storming rifforama into a ping pong space odyssey. Or something. Mr. Rutledgebag also has a rather trippy MGMT remix of ‘Electric Eel’ as well as an unr... more info

Idolator — While reading over this week's SoundScan, I noticed—among the thicket of debuts that included Disney's "new Miley Cyrus" Demi Lovato, Kings Of Leon, TV On The Radio (No. 12!), and the Pussycat Dolls (who just managed to squeak into the top five)—... more info

Stereogum — Last video around Ricky Wilson's guys did expensive things like hiring actors and renting face masks, so it's only logical that they've pulled the purse strings a little tighter for the next sample of their new, Mark Ronson co-produced album. The g... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Today Kanye West (or whoever else updates his blog) featured a mash-up of his song "Touch The Sky" with Justice's remix of MGMT's "Electric Feel"-- mistakenly credited to Justice. The real mixmaster behind the track is Mighty Mi/Steve1der, so props ... more info