Brooklyn Vegan — photos by @griffinshot - Tim Griffin Parenthetical Girls @ the Parish Parenthetical Girls recently finished a tour with Los Campesinos! with two shows in Austin. One set of pictures from the final show at the Parish can be seen at... more info

Guardian Music — Festival celebrating new bands will play host to artists including Alabama Shakes, Mystery Jets and Shabazz PalacesThe second set of artists for this year's Great Escape festival has been announced, with appearances promised from Maximo Park, Lianne ... more info

Stereogum — Name: Perfume Genius Progress Report: Mike Hadreas opens up about the new Perfume Genius record, Put Your Back N 2 It. When Perfume Genius released Learning back in 2010, the record quickly became a kind of quiet sensation: an elegant rumination on h... more info

Chorus.fm — *Parenthetical Girls* (http://www.facebook.com/parentheticalgirls) will be opening for* Perfume Genius (http://www.absolutepunk.net/perfumegenius)* on their spring tour. Check the dates in the replies. more info

ContactMusic — The End Of The Road Festival have announced sixteen more acts joining the line-up which already consists of The Antlers First Aid Kit and headliners Tindersticks Anna Calvi Francois And The Atlas Mountains and Perfume Genius are just three of the six... more info

DrownedInSound — There are some artists that evidently try too hard, some that obviously fake it, and then there's Perfume Genius. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Music news, reviews and discussion from the last seven daysRemembering Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston expected to storm charts after death Whitney Houston – a life in pictures"Squandered talent of a record-breaking singer who had it all" – Alexis... more info

DrownedInSound — Spotifriday is dead! And it's been replaced by a February Highlights thread (and monthly Spotify playlist) and a new weekly feature where DiS' editor creates a picks of the week digest of five things to fling you into the weekend.... Read the ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — When Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, first appeared on our radar it was with the mesmerising Mr Peterson – a piano-led song of such hushed beauty you barely noticed the dark undertow of the lyrics. The album that featured this song, Learning, ... more info

Guardian Music — (Organs/Turnstile)For his second album as Perfume Genius, Seattle's Michael Hadreas adds a twist of confidence to the bare-bones, piano-and-reverb approach of his lovely debut, Learning. That's not to say he's ditching his delicate template, no matte... more info