Brooklyn Vegan — The New Yorker Festival returns this year from Friday, October 2 through Sunday, October 4. As always, "illustrious writers, creative thinkers, and artists from many disciplines will explore the cutting edge of culture, music, science, and technology... more info

Stereogum — Arcade Fire recently played a game of Jam Or Not A Jam with CBC Music — Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and Tim Kingsbury were all played a mix of super popular songs and some older ones and asked to give their opinion, and then say whether it was a... more info

Time — The band talks to TIME about their new album, Paper Gods, which boasts collaborations with Mark Ronson, Janelle Monáe and…Lindsay Lohan? more info

Stereogum — Just a couple of weeks ago, Mark Ronson stopped by Australian radio station Triple J to perform a live in-studio cover of Queens Of The Stone Age’s “I Sat By The Ocean.” And now the coverer becomes the coveree: British rockers Foals contributed... more info

Stereogum — Duran Duran will release their 14th studio album, Paper Gods, in September, and today the Daily Beast shared the LP’s third single, “You Kill Me With Silence.” The album was recorded in London with producers Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson, Josh Blai... more info

The Independent — Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ hit single "Uptown Funk" soared to number one last year, it’s early 80’s style taking inspiration from a variety of sources. more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig’s Beats 1 Radio show Time Crisis has been one of the most reliably entertaining things about the station since it launched earlier this summer. Thus far on the show, he’s had deeply diverting conversations wit... more info

The Independent — British acts including George Ezra, Ella Henderson and Mark Ronson, are to be at the forefront of an attempt by Amazon to challenge Spotify and Deezer by taking a major stake in the UK’s booming market for music streaming. more info

Reuters — (Reuters) - Pop singer Taylor Swift, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, R&B singer Beyonce, and DJ-producer Mark Ronson lead the nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards, the cable network said on Tuesday. more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig hosted his first Beats 1 radio show last night in a timeslot that he’ll alternate every other week with Pharrell’s show. It’s called Time Crisis and, for the debut episode, he brought along Mark Ronson, Rashida J... more info