L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The weekly numbers from Nielsen SoundScan aren't given the official unveiling until Wednesday morning, but perhaps Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Merge Records can be forgiven for not being totally hip to music industry embargoes. After all, it's not often the ... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 08-11 Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre *08-14 Toronto, Ontario - Olympic Island08-27 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival08-28 Reading, England - Reading Festival08-29 Saint Cloud, France - Rock En Seine08-31 Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom09-02 Bo... more info

USA Today Music — Day two of theLollapalooza music festival unfolded easily under ideal skies again in Grant Park, allowing fans to gently recover from the Gaga ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — All Things Considered interviews Bjork. At the Huffington Post, Anis Shivani lists the 15 most overrated contemporary American writers. On sale at Amazon MP3: Spoon's 10-track Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga album for $3.99. In the Guardian, author Tom McCarthy... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 09-02 San Diego, CA - Casbah &09-03 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar &09-04 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest09-05 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall &09-06 Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Memorial Library &09-09 Portland, OR - Holocene09-10 Seattle, WA -... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Bao Nguyen "The Arcade Fire was majestic." - Tumbleweed Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" is making a run for No. 1 on next week's Billboard 200 albums chart. Industry sources suggest the new set could sell maybe between 120,000... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Spoon @ Oya Fest 2007 (more) Hot Chip @ ACL 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) tonight in NYC * The Dead Weather @ Don Hill's * Mark Burgess @ Home Sweet Home * Elvis Martinez @ Highbridge Park *... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — So yeah you need to watch this stunning performance of Spoon playing “Nobody Gets Me But You” on Jimmy Fallon. The Roots very own ?uestlove and Owen Biddle add to the rhythm section, allowing for quite the performance. Spoon is opening for Arcade... more info

Stereogum — While in town to play MSG with Arcade Fire, Spoon stopped by Jimmy Fallon and did Transference’s “Nobody Gets Me But You” with an understated but effective Questlove assist. Afterward, Questo hightails it to his usual throne while the band stan... more info

Silent Uproar — The Austin City Limits Music Festival has revealed the 2010 schedule and is now completely sold out. The lineup includes The Eagles, Muse, Phish, The Strokes, M.I.A., Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, Norah Jones and Vampire Weekend, among many o... more info