NME — Fleet Foxes, Explosions In The Sky, Okkervil River, The Broken Family Band and The Dodos have been added to the line-up of the End Of The Road festival. more info

Pitchfork — The North Carolina indie institution Merge Records turns 20 this year, and they're celebrating their anniversary in grand style. As you know, they're putting out a sweet subscription-only box set featuring contributions from all kinds of special gue... more info

Said the Gramophone — The Daredevil Christopher Wright - "Clouds". Said the Gramophone tries hard not to be one of those music-blogs that recommends ten "awesome!!!!!!!" bands each week. Oh sure, we might post about ten different bands - but what we are posting is wonde... more info

Rolling Stone — Okkervil River’s chatty, silver-tongued frontman Will Sheff sat in a circle of high schoolers yesterday in Austin, teaching a songwriting workshop at 826 Valencia, the writing and tutoring center founded by novelist Dave Eggers. Sheff, along with d... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy!Bruce Springsteen is set to headline Glastonbury, which takes place June 26-28.Dinosaur Jr join Bon Iver and Okkervil River as the newest addition to Indiana-based label Jagjaguwar. Their next album is set to be releas... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — TheRumpus.net is having a launch party at Crash Mansion in NYC tonight (2/5). According to the ticket page, there will be "Music by Will Sheff of Okkervil River, Timothy Bracy of the Mendoza Line and Beth Wawerna of Bird... more info

All About Jazz — The 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will take place June 11-14 at The Farm in Manchester, TN featuring: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band Phish Beastie Boys Nine Inch Nails David Bryne Wilco Al Green Snoop Dogg Elvis Costell... more info

My Old Kentucky — Today is My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRUS XMU! Channel 26 on SIRIUS & channel 43 on XM. Tune in at 12pm EST and again at Midnight EST!Dan Auerbach - Keep It HidThe Books ft. Jose Gonzalez - Cello SongBon Iver - Brackett, WIAndrew Bird - The Gian... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — After the ice storm of hell or what Connor likes to term "the white death", my power finally clicked back on today and my house had a pulse once again. Just in time too, they've released the initial lineup for Bonnaroo tonight! Looks like this summ... more info

Pitchfork — Tennessee's Bonnaroo Festival is obviously a big deal, and its organizers are probably better at scoring the biggest names than any other festival organizers in these United States. Last year, for instance, they landed Metallica and Kanye West and P... more info