Pitchfork — -- These are tough times for record companies, but Matador at least has a smart approach to the art of the sell: giving away tons of free stuff to actual paying customers! You won't be able to hold a physical copy of Sonic Youth's The Eternal in your... more info

Buzzgrinder — If you're fiending for some tidbits of the first Sonic Youth record on an indie label in years, then take heart. The band has lent a montage containing stuff from The Eternal to the heppest hepcats on the block -- Newsweek. Sonic Youth - The Eternal... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — From Matador Records, issuing the next full-lengther from Sonic Youth, offering a limited edition LP featuring sounds from their July 4th Battery Park show (which was part of WFMU's 50th Anniversary Free Concert Series, and was broadcast live ove... more info

Stereogum — This is your chance to hear The Eternal's black metal-influenced lyrics and heavy ass weirdo hooks, albeit in supremely truncated form. At first the teaser's a frustrating listen: Each time something lands and sounds promising, it's onto the next ... more info

Pitchfork — The self-titled, self-released debut album from Brooklyn effects-pedal abusers A Place to Bury Strangers took bits and pieces from any number of 80s-vintage noise-pop heroes: Hissing drum machine rattles from Cabaret Voltaire, morose pop hooks from... more info

Idolator — Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? was Mike Watt's first solo album, and when it came out in 1995, I had never heard of the Minutemen. But I bought it anyway because of "Against the '70s," which was about the '70s being bad (of which I was aware) and was sung by E... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon have announced that a reunited Blur will be headlining the June 24-28 Glastonbury Festival alongside Bruce Springsteen. Passion Pit are bringing their DIY dancetastic music to the masses,... more info

The Music Fix — News: Feraltone have announced the release of [i]Brand Neu![/i] for 11 May, with tracks by Oasis, Kasabian, Foals all paying tribute to the seminal German outfit. Tracklist: Ciccone Youth (Sonic Youth): "Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu!" P.... more info

Pitchfork — Just thinking about krautrock duo Neu! on this please-let-it-be-spring Brooklyn day makes me want to take an impromptu road trip to anywhere. They made car music for the long stretches in-between rest stops-- think endless drives through European fl... more info

Pitchfork — The last Dirty Projectors full-length, 2007's Rise Above, reimagined a Black Flag hardcore classic as an art-jazz cave painting, so these forever-fluctuating Brooklyn space cadets aren't exactly short on ambition. Since Rise Above, the band has lock... more info