Rawkblog — Live: Rose Melberg — my hero, Rose Melberg (left; photo by David Greenwald) — played two rare, intimate shows in Los Angeles. News: It was a real Vampire Weekend as the band hit Los Angeles for Halloween; release dates for long-awaited albums fro... more info

Guardian Music — War, climate change, humanitarian work: why "musical differences" just don't cut it any moreAs a species, humanity could take war. And financial collapse. We could even take climate change. But then last week the Rakes announced that they were splitt... more info

Rawkblog — In an interview with Consequence of Sound today, Pavement guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg (whose new solo album is a jam, by the way) confirms that the reformed band is negotiating for a U.S. festival appearance at “a place in the dese... more info

Allmusic Blog — In the late 90s, someone at Matador must have become tired of guitars or grown bored with indie rock because all of a sudden the label began releasing all kinds of really great electronic music. In retrospect it’s even crazier that the label releas... more info

NME — Stephen Malkmus and co to head up Primavera Sound more info

411 Mania — No Age verses the airline man, Morrissey is unwell, more Pavement news, The new Eeels record, Jarvis Cocker to become a DJ, new Los Campesinos! album, Dark Was The Night makes a load of money for charity, the Fucked Up singles comp and more. more info

Live Daily — Somehow it seemed fitting. The Beatles' tribute band the Fab Four was booked at Club Nokia on Saturday (11/24). Across the L.A. Live courtyard at the larger Nokia Theatre, the surviving, active members of Liverpool's '80s Fab Four--Echo & the Bunnyme... more info

XFM.co.uk — It's a hat-trick of Brixton dates for the returning legends... more info

NME - Radar — So we had our second NME party last night, it was pretty manic. Again we lots of good bands playing. Yes Giantess came down, hot off their hitchhiking Radar tour stint, Barcelona's Delorean did their Balaeric bliss-pop thing. Then their was the Pitch... more info

NME — Band will now play three nights in the capital more info