Guardian Music — (Wichita Recordings)It's hard not to suspect that Sky Larkin are in some way responsible for the bizarre recent phenomenon of "West Yorkshire grunge". Like 2009's The Golden Spike, the Leeds trio recorded this in Seattle; they have clearly grown up w... more info

MTV.com News — As we gear up for the 2010 fest, Bigger Than the Sound looks back at the Lolla show that never was.By James Montgomery Kanye West performs at Lollapalooza in 2008 Photo: Dove Shore/ Getty Images Earlier this week, a music-obsessed buddy of ... more info

Pitchfork — Last year, Aaron and Bryce Dessner from the National teamed up with artist Matthew Ritchie to create The Long Count, a multimedia performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Matt Berninger, the National's singer, helped out, as did the Breeders'... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Kathryn Yu MP3:> Deerhoof: "Hitch Hike" (LiLiPUT cover) Deerhoof fans (and hipster parents) should be psyched for Rules to Rock By, a new book by Josh Farrar about a 12-year-old girl who's inspired by Deerhoof to form her own band... more info

Guardian Music — First started as a so-called test lab, 4AD produced Cocteau Twins and the Pixies - it was a breeding ground for goth, pan-continental post-rock and much more besidesIn 1980, 4AD set out to supplant the nihilism of punk with an atmospheric, esoteric n... more info

Allmusic Blog — Think back to 1990, the year before the first Lollapalooza, the year hip-hop went pop via MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice -- a year where classic rockers still had such a stranglehold on the mainstream that Paul Simon could appear on Billboard's Modern Roc... more info

Stereogum — Based on past experience, New York's All Tomorrow's Parties has become the festival you buy tickets for lineup-unseen. But for those who need to know, ATP just expanded the lineup of bands for this year's Weekend At Kutsher's: Saturday will includ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — All Tomorrow's Parties will return to Kutsher's Country Club, Monticello for the third ATP New York festival over Labor Day weekend, running from Friday 3rd September - Sunday 5th September. We are very excited to announce that legendary film-maker J... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — All Tomorrow's Parties will return to Kutsher's Country Club, Monticello for the third ATP New York festival over Labor Day weekend, running from Friday 3rd September - Sunday 5th September. We are very excited to announce that legendary fi... more info

Quick Before It Melts — It was originally released as a holiday gift, but Montag ’s (Antoine Bédard) Des cassettes et un Walkman jaune, an EP of some unexpected cover versions, is the perfect weekend gear-up/come-down music any time of year.  He re-imagines tracks b... more info