Guardian Music — The hirsute troubadours have revealed that the follow-up to their debut LP will be 'less poppy' and 'less upbeat'. That'll be fun, eh?Fleet Foxes have revealed that they are planning a new album for 2010, and rest assured – it'll be more borin... more info

8/1 — 50 Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy49 Jay-Z – The Blueprint 348 Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It47 Alasdair Roberts – Spoils46 Broadcast & The Focus Group - …Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age45 Richmond Fontaine ... more info

Guardian Music — Last week you sent us your favourite lunar tunes. Now we want songs with pep in their step ...What to do about classical music? That's the question that's been rattling around my noggin'. I don't mean "do about" in the sense of "take care". I have no... more info

Live Daily — Paying upwards of $350 for a single ticket to see Van Morrison [ tickets ] in the nearly acoustically perfect setting of Waterbury, CT's meticulously restored Palace Theater might be compared to enjoying a $350 bottle of wine in a finely outfitted re... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Little Leonard Cohen headlines the giant Madison Square Garden this evening (10/23). Van Morrison plays the smaller Theater on Sunday (10/25). Van Morrison was actually scheduled to make an appearance in the bigger venue too this month, but...The con... more info

Guardian Music — Are the 44 best albums of the last decade really all made by white people? Is Outkast's B.O.B. really better than Crazy in Love?As the decade draws to an end, the English language seems to be trying to pull us back from the abyss of retrospective ind... more info

The Late Greats — The Family Straw is back from our vacation. It was super duper fun. Nice to get out of town for a while. Here is a song I got while away. A slow sultry number that will get you bobbing your head and beg you to sing along. Clarence Bucaro is drawing n... more info

Guardian Music — Thinking of leaking the new White Stripes album? Think again. There is a new law around these here parts that polices the net and turns in those who repeatedly infringe copyrightAs the Digital Britain consultation drew to a close this week, the hot t... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — TORONTO - With roughly three dozen studio albums under his belt, it took more than four decades for Van Morrison to return to one of his and rock music's landmarks. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — A highly talented singer-songwriter from Lowell, Massachusetts, Bob Martin released Midwest Farm Disaster in 1972 — a record that is generally acknowledged as his masterpiece and a genre benchmark. Martin’s voice is gravelly, weathered, soulful a... more info