Core News — “Iggy Pop serves up another sonic cocktail to kick the weekend off. This week he has tracks by the likes of Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales, Hinds, Thurston Moore and Noveller. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s al... more info

New York Times — “Whatever glamour there was on that stage,” he writes, “many of the artists were basically subsisting at poverty level.” more info

Stereogum — It's been six years since the end of Sonic Youth and nearly three since Thurston Moore's last solo album, and now the band's former co-leader is returning with a new one called Rock N Roll Consciousness, recorded with Adele/U2/Coldplay producer Paul ... more info

DrownedInSound — If this were a Sonic Youth record, it’d be a raging mess, but here everything works in unison more info

Stereogum — Radiohead are scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv this summer, the band's fourth overall performance in Israel but first since 2000. It's a controversial choice due to the country's policies toward its Palestinian population, and today a number of Radio... more info

The Quietus — The likes of Thurston Moore, Ken Loach, Roger Walters and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have urged the band to cancel their planned Tel Aviv show. more info

The Quietus — The Sonic Youth man will be taking your questions live, find out more below. ... more info

Stereogum — Members of Can reunited as "the Can Project" for a special 50th anniversary show at London's Barbican Hall last night. After founding member Irmin Schmidt conducted the world premiere of Can Dialog, an orchestral reinterpretation of classic Can mater... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — It's the 50th anniversary of krautrock icons Can, and that The Can Project show -- featuring founding member Irmin Schmidt, original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, as well as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley... Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — Perfume Genius - Slip AwayThe last time Mike Hadreas had something from a new album to share it was Queen, and it blew most of the year away. Like that song this bursts from a tentative opening into technicolour; unlike it this seems more metallic, l... more info