L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Times pop music critic Randall Roberts parses the confusing nominations among the Grammy rock acts, including Coldplay, Radiohead, Mastodon, Mumford & Sons and others. more info

Guardian Music — (Nonesuch)Last month, this outrageously virtuosic and experimental bluegrass-pop-jazz band from New York turned up at a small London venue and gave what will surely be one of the most memorable concerts of the year. Now the five-piece Punch Brothers ... more info

Guardian Music — Format, Pet Shop Boys' new B-sides collection, shows how clever artists can make pop gold from a single's flipsideThe one-word titles of Pet Shop Boys albums always repay a second look and so it proves with Format, the name of their second volume of ... more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn quintet Here We Go Magic hooked up with perennial Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on their new album A Different Ship, which comes out this spring. Below, check out the album’s tracklist and the jumpy, jittery “Make Up Your Mind,” the... more info

Guardian Music — 'It's kind of postmodern,' says the Another Girl producer, though the first release on his Vase imprint is a new EPYou might not know his name just yet, but you've probably seen Jacques Greene. That's him in the glasses in rapper pal Azealia Banks's ... more info

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Guardian Music — WG Sebald's sprawling novel The Rings of Saturn has inspired a movie. The composer of its soundtrack tells Ben Beaumont-Thomas why only mashed-up Schubert would do"The book is very ghost-like," says Leyland James Kirby. "So the music is ghost-like to... more info

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