LargeHeartedBoy — New music I can recommend this week includes Neil Young's The Monsanto Years and The Velvet Teen's All Is Illusory. The Civil Wars' Joy Williams' Venus and Matt Pond PA's The State Of Gold are also in stores today.... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The New York Times shared pages from the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland. EightByEight examined how soccer influenced the Clash's London Calling album. The Rumpus interviewed author Christine Sneed. NPR Music is streaming the new Matt Pond... more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Copenhagen instrumental rockers Town Portal are following 2013's Chronopoly this year with a new album, The Occident, on May 25 via Small Pond Recordings (pre-order). Earlier this month they released the first single "Bonus Trigger,"... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — As with superheroes, team-ups between great musicians are not always recipes for success. But North Carolina’s Three Lobed Records has cooked up some truly tasty collabs in the past — the killer Steve Gunn / Hiss Golden Messenger LP, for instanc... more info

Perez Hilton — C'mon Johnny Depp and Amber Heard! Where was OUR invite?! As we reported, the 51-year-old actor and the 28-year-old starlet had a GORGEOUS ceremony on the Pirates Of The Caribbean star's private island — Little Hall's Pond Cay — in the Bahamas! [... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Last year, Matt Pond PA went on a 10th anniversary tour for Emblems, and this year they'll celebrate the tenth anniversary of its followup, Several Arrows Later. According to a press release, "A limited edition, Opaque Orange version of... more info

Stereogum — Aussie psych-rock band Pond have already released a bunch of videos off their sophomore album, Man, It Feels Like Space Again — “Elvis’ Flaming Star,” “Sitting Up On Our Crane,” and “Zond” — and today, they give us a set of visuals ... more info

Stereogum — Pond’s new album Man It Feels Like Space Again is coming soon, and today the Perth psych-rockers released an immensely goofy video from it. The title “Zond” itself suggests a slightly tweaked version of Pond, and indeed it’s one of the group�... more info

Stereogum — Tame Impala offshoot Pond are releasing their sophomore record, Man It Feels Like Space Again, at the beginning of next year, and they’ve just shared a video for a new track from it called “Sitting Up On Our Crane.” The video follows a 3D figur... more info