KEXP Seattle — Congratulations to Bon Iver for winning two Grammys last night for New Artist and Alternative Album! While this year’s nominees included a healthy dose of KEXP favorites — Fleet Foxes, The Decemberists, The Black Keys, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie,... more info

Perez Hilton — The Foo Fighters are sweeping the Grammys this year! With four wins under their belt before the official show even start, the band beat out Coldplay, The Decemberists, Mumford & Sons, and Radiohead for the title of Best Rock Performance for their sin... more info

Guardian Music — With their Bach encores and Radiohead covers, Punch Brothers aren't your average bluegrass bandBefore Punch Brothers' show at west London's Bush Hall last month, I saw a young man turn to his friend at the bar and ask: "What are you supposed to drink... more info

Topix — Look at the five 54th Grammy Awards nominees for both rock performance and rock song and it's easy to envision an afternoon stroll through some enchanted forest: "Walk" by the Foo Fighters is competing against "Down by the Water" by the Decemberists,... more info

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

411 Mania — Plus Metallica, Arcade Fire and more... more info