The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Lots of guilty pleasures on the list today.  And I may be the only one on the planet who liked the Foster the People album. Here are the 55 Best Albums of 2014 (12-22): 12. Foster The People - Supermodel 13. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain 14.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hangout Music Festival, which will now be co-produced by Goldenvoice (the same company that produces Coachella), returns to the beaches of Gulf Shores, AL from May 15-17 this year. The lineup includes Foo Fighters, Beck, Skrillex, My Morning Jacket,.... more info

Stereogum — Hangout has unveiled the lineup for the sixth iteration of the Alabama-based music festival. Acts at the top of the bill include Foo Fighters, the Zac Brown Band, Beck, Skrillex, My Morning Jacket, Foster The People, Paramore, Spoon, Umphrey’s McGe... more info

Stereogum — Back in April, indie rock veteran Jason Narducy — he of the sexiest elbows in rock — teamed up with Spoon’s Britt Daniel and Superchunk’s Jon Wurster to release Fragmented World, an infectious album of sunny power-pop tinged with lyrical sadn... more info

Stereogum — Spoon’s episode of Austin City Limits aired last night, which they did alongside a performance from fellow Austin-based rockers White Denim. The two bands split the hour-long block pretty evenly, with Spoon performing a mix of older tracks and song... more info

Stereogum — Austin hometown heroes Spoon return to Austin City Limits this weekend, and today we’ve got an early preview. The band’s six-song setlist includes lots of material from last year’s great They Want My Soul, but their performance of the title tra... more info

Stereogum — With the press cycle for They Want My Soul slowing down, I wasn’t expecting to hear any new Spoon songs for a very long time, but it turns out the band debuted a new song called “Satellite” in Houston just before the new year. It’s a nervous,... more info

Pop Headwound — It’s become way too hard (and not as fulfilling) to try to maintain Pop Headwound as I get older. Music is still there, and it still echoes around my car and my headphones and my living room and it is still affecting me in the same ways it al... more info

Stereogum — Spoon’s shimmering groove “Inside Out” and Dej Loaf’s twinkling Detroit rap hit “Try Me” are two of the songs that snuck up on us the hardest as this past summer drew to a close. And now, in the grand tradition of their Taylor Swift/Kendr... more info

Stereogum — It has to be an intimidating thing to remix Spoon. You have to know, somewhere deep within yourself, that there’s no way you’re going to improve on the original; an interesting take is the best you can hope for. So credit San Francisco ambient po... more info