Guardian Music — Hyde Park, LondonJust 10 months after informing the Reading and Leeds festival audiences they wouldn't be back in the UK "for a long, long time", here are Kings of Leon again, unable to resist the chance to headline their very own supersized (around ... more info

Bradley's Almanac — When the Pixies decided to jump on the "full album live" train last year to perform their seminal "Doolittle" LP for the masses, I was fully on board. The trend that seems to have started with ATP's original "Don't Look Back" shows is still going st... more info

The Vinyl Villain — COMPUTER LOVEI'm using as much time as possible this weekend to try and re-load some 20,000 music files from the back-up drive back onto my PC....but am discovering that it's taking far longer than I would like. It's a task that's also giving me a fo... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Seth Olenick It seems like anyone who grew up in the 80s or 90s had some sort of "Weird Al" phase. It's almost always during one's childhood and looked back upon fondly-- I remember running around the kitchen as a kid singing "My Bologna" at... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Black Keys fan @ Bonnaroo 2010 (by Laura Fedele for WFUV) Tickets go on sale at 11am for all five of SPIN's 25th Anniversary shows.7/26 - Smashing Pumpkins @ Terminal 5 (TICKETS) 7/27 - The Flaming Lips @ Terminal 5... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Kings Of Leon played Bonnaroo earlier tonight, and apparently it was a great set. It included a cover of The Pixies highly regarded classic “Where Is My Mind?”. I thought the band did it justice. I wish I could have been there to hear it myself. ... more info

Guardian Music — From football to focus groups, a new wave of pop democracy is sweeping the web, says Chris SalmonEarlier this year, Irish web-based label Indiecater appealed for 32 artists to help make a compilation featuring an original song for each nation at the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Record Fiend said... Frank Stokes' Dream: The Memphis Blues 1927-1931 (another first-rate early Yazoo album featuring material by Frank Stokes [obviously], Furry Lewis, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Memphis Minnie, Tom Dickson, Noah Lewis, Will Weldon, and ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The PopCulturist said... The Rare Stuff is delighted to present: The Definitive Del Amitri Rarities Series, Vol. 2*: The Waking Hours B-Sides *No, you didn't miss Vol. 1, we'll backtrack to that next. If you add up Glaswegian pub-rockers Del Amitri's... more info

Pitchfork — Comedy weirdos Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of the cult fave "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!", are no strangers to the music side of things. Wareheim has directed videos for MGMT, Depeche Mode, HEALTH, and Major Lazer. The pair ... more info