Live Daily — Trivium [ tickets ] has unveiled the dates for the second leg of its "Into The Mouth of Hell We" tour of North America, which now takes the Florida metalheads into December. The thrash-metal outfit kicked off the summer portion of the run early la... more info

Stereogum — Gothenburg electro-pop quartet Little Dragon just released their second album Machine Dreams in Europe (it'll hit the States in October). The focus of each track tends to be soulful Swedish-Japanese vocalist Yukimi Nagano, who wades through the icy s... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week, ex-Flying members Eliot Krimsky and Mike Johnson offered up "The Same," an art-pop parade of a track that had the Voice referencing J. Dilla and us rattling off the grab-bag of disparate embellishments that made it an unlikely but ... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Grizzly Bear (feat. Michael McDonald) - "While You Wait for the Others"; Last we saw Michael McDonald he was tormenting the staff at SmartTech in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Never did we think we'd find something he did musically cool, but for whatever r... more info

Stereogum — Glass Ghost's simple but sublime "Like A Diamond" was the first track to garner attention some months back, and deservedly so. It's an affecting, gently aspirated bedtime piece coupling GG main mind Eliot Kimsky's introspective ruminations with under... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Them Swedes have an awfully good way with lovely electro-pop that positions itself right in the middle of the cutesy/bangin’ Venn diagram, don’t they? Little Dragon are a case in point. Looking Glass comes from the band's only-just-released secon... more info

Ian's well-known for his renditions of Blondie tunes but gets annoyed when asked to perform his own.He said:'I love karaoke,I usually do 'Heart of Glass'or Otis Reading's 'Try A Little Tenderness'.'. more info

Stereogum — This past weekend, bill-sharing fellows Reading and Leeds were tasked with distracting a nation still reeling from the death of its Oasis. They're secret weapons were unannounced sets by Them Crooked Vultures, the tweet-happy supergroup of Dave Gr... more info

Get Weird — Eli Escobar’s debut single ’Glass House’ is out on Plant Music and it’s exclusively available now at Beatport. It comes with a nice remix from xxxchange that’s definitely worth checking out and if you haven’t yet seen the F... more info

All About Jazz — New York City based alto saxophonist and composer Sarah Manning has signed on to Posi-Tone Records and will be recording a new album this fall, with an anticipated release of Spring or Summer of 2010. The Posi-Tone release will be Manning’s thi... more info