Impose Magazine — David Baker was a founding member of, and frontman for, the quasi-legendary Mercury Rev, and while he only appeared on their first two albums, Yerself is Steam and Boces, those two underground post-modern masterpieces were so significant and ground-b... more info

Guardian Music — They were tiny, tatty – and terrific. For Record Store Day on Saturday, our pop writers remember the shops where they first fell in love with musicFreewheelin' in Nottingham It was the place where I first heard Bob Dylan, in the late summer of 1963... more info

Guardian Music — From racing with the devil to a goddess on a highway, this week's playlist leaves others eating dirt. Scream if you want to go faster …And they're off! Last week I asked you for suggestions of songs about velocity – and the nominations came thick... more info

Guardian Music — David Baker, who split with band in 1993, announces he will release new material with synth player Will MacLeanDavid Baker, the original singer of Mercury Rev, has announced his first album in 18 years. Almost 20 years after being sacked from his ori... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis I remember getting Mercury Rev's Yerself is Steam, putting it in my CD player and thinking, "My speakers are busted." But then I came to realize this was just how the music was recorded: loud and fucked... more info

Guardian Music — A new Warp signing! But don't expect another Aphex Twin – this is guitar music of a hazy, heavenly kindHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Frederick Coldwell (vocals, instruments), Kris Lindblade (vocals, instruments), Joe Noll (drums), Paul Jenkins (ke... more info

Guardian Music — (V2)You don't need to know a thing about Mercury Rev to appreciate what a wracked place the band was in when it recorded its 1998 masterpiece, Deserter's Songs. Almost every note communicates emotional fragility and nostalgia for lost love, lost yout... more info

Guardian Music — I love this idea of the darkest, calmest hour, far from the fury of the wild night, as the devils lie down and the morning light has yet to arriveMaybe it's been the changing light, the cold, quiet shift to dark mornings and long, drab evenings that... more info

Guardian Music — Roundhouse, LondonOnly four songs in and the PA cut out, the sirens blared and the Roundhouse was evacuated. Had Kentucky's My Morning Jacket tripped the inhouse prog alarm, or had the venue overloaded trying to work out what sort of band they are? E... more info

Guardian Music — Thanks to your herculean efforts this week, we can dust off and put on display a rich list of historical recordsIt's been a week of excavation, a playlist painstakingly pieced together with valuable and neglected fragments covered by millennia of dus... more info