Rollo & Grady — The Growlers Rollo & Grady recommended shows for August, September and October. Bootleg Theater 9/10: Cass McCombs The Echo 8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/31: The Growlers 8/4: Bowerbirds & Megafaun 8/5, 8/12: Dawes 8/20: J. Tillman with Evans & Falls 8/27: Th... more info

XLR8R — The folks of CMJ better step to the side because it looks like Canada is gearing up for its own fall music festival in '09 and the lineup thus far is sure to amaze. Touching down in the beautiful metropolis of Victoria, British Columbia, during ... more info

Quick Before It Melts — Up until just yesterday, I thought Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” was going to be my favourite song of 2009, but just when you least expect it, cupid shoots his arrow straight into your ass and makes everything woozy and fuzzy.  Such is the feel... more info

Stereogum — Last year was the year of the Black Mountain; this is the year of BM's spawn. The Vancouver band's best known alternate collective Pink Mountaintops, delivered its third LP Outside Love on the reliable Jagjaguwar label earlier this month, featuring l... more info

XLR8R — Running up that hill with Vancouver’s love-song mountain man. On a smoke break outside his East Vancouver practice space, Stephen McBean is waxing poetic about his latest Pink Mountaintops album, Outside Love. The album, a collection of tobacc... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Pink Mountaintops - "Vampire" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pink Mountaintops - "While We Were Dreaming" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Quest For Fire - "Bison Eyes" (MP3) Come to McBean country...... Is Stephen McBean, to quote P. Diddy, "preserving... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Kills Rollo & Grady Recommended New Releases - Tuesday, May 5th: Akron/Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free (Buy) Horrors - Primary Colours The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side (Reissue) (Buy) Nomo - Invisible Cities (Buy) Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms... more info

Radio Exile — From Pink Mountaintops upcoming [MySpace] release, Outside Love, out on Jagjaguwar 5/5 [via Fader] more info

Stereogum — When we last heard "While We Were Dreaming," it was sung by Ashley Webber, sister of Lightning Duster and McBean's Black Mountain mate Amber Webber. As we noted then, her voice had Pink Mountaintops sounding more like Claudia Gonson-fronted Magnet... more info

Music Mule — What? Pink Mountaintops Pink Mountaintops are Steve McBean’s (of Canadain band Black Mountain fame) psychedelic, noise pop side project. Mojo magazine recently described them as ‘The Velvet Underground to Black Mountain’s Black Sabbath’. That... more info