Big Apple Music Scene — Cast Spells and Good Old War. Images via: Dave Clifford, Us/Them Lots of good stuff on sale today, including all of the shows for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, which will host Marianne Faithfull, St. Vincent, Dirty Projectors, and many... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Phoenix and Passion Pit are playing Hammerstein Ballroom with Jack's Mannequin and Machester Orchestra on December 2nd. Tickets are on sale.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — B.B. King is playing United Palace Theatre in NYC on February 12th. Tickets are now on Live Nation Presale (password = record) and Citi Cardmember presale. General sale starts Saturday at 10am. United Palace is also the location of... more info

The Quietus — 2010 gigs announced more info

NME — Electro-poppers for new Bristol and Norwich dates more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — If you're a fan of Max Tundra's latest album, Parallax Error Beheads You, then you already know dude's got a penchant for chopped-up, time-changing, multi-tracked skewed pop tunes, and so it becomes a little hard to tell where his spastic production ... more info

Stereogum — In addition to including Final Fantasy's justifiably hyperbolic promotional blurb when first posting on the excellently kinetic synth-pop of "Which Song," we added this bit from Ben Jacobs aka Max Tundra himself on the process and equipment used to a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Phoenix @ The Apple Store in September (more by Ryan Muir) Phoenix and Passion Pit played two big NYC shows together in September. Phoenix also played their own shows at Terminal 5 that same month (a benefit), and a few... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Monday: Fuck Buttons, Growing, + These Are Powers @ Bowery Ballroom 7:30pm $15 [tix]Most acts that set up in front of a table are never able to truly capture an audiences attention in the live setting. They stand there, pressing buttons and twisting ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are now on sale (@ noon) for the second Arctic Monkeys / Screaming Females show at Terminal 5 Tickets are now on sale (@ noon) for the third Passion Pit show at Terminal 5 Tickets are on sale... more info