Aquarium Drunkard — (Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) If you haven’t heard, Slowdive have reunited for a batch of festival performances throughout Europe and are adding more dates as the weeks progress.... more info

Stereogum — The ranks of expansively pretty and brutally fuzzed-out metal/not-metal bands seems to grow every day. Philly shoegazers Nothing are closer to recent-vintage Alcest than they are to Deafheaven on that spectrum, but there’s a heavy intensity to thei... more info

Nialler9 — The Meteor Choice Music Prize takes place on February 27th and the night will see one of the following performing acts: Girls Names, Little Green Cars, Mano Le Tough, O Emperor, Lisa O’Neill and Villagers (along with those not performing My Bloody... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Truth be told, we didn't think there'd be a blog poll this year. Partly because this place was out of commission by choice for a while, but also the number of blogs closing down without notice, just disappearing and leaving a regular last pos... more info

Pop Headwound —   In a year that was filled with a multitude of great releases from well-established veterans, my favorite record of the year, by a country mile, is a “best of” collection by Ginnels – the work of a previously unsigned Dublin-based songw... more info

Mercury News, California — The xx, Black Sabbath, Dandy Warhols also among acts that delivered great Bay Area shows in 2013. more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Former Creation records boss Alan McGee is telling the true story of his incredible life with the publication of his autobiography, Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label.He’s the man who signed Oasis and was responsible for one of the ... more info

Prefix — At the first of the final two nights of My Bloody Valentine’s 2013 tour at Hammerstein Ballroom – their ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/review-my-bloody-valentine-hammerstein-ballroom/75767/ more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Valentine GrayFrom: Isle of Wight, United KingdomAny band that can claim Jesus as their manager clearly has friends in high places and probably doesn't need a recommendation from the Devil. But the five strong Isle of Wight rockers Valentine Gray... more info

Chorus.fm — The first person to reply to this will win a pair of tickets to see *My Bloody Valentine* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/mybloodyvalentine) and *DIIV* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/diiv) tonight at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. more info