Rock Sellout — The next week is going to be a bit tricky where updates are concerned as my summer travels continue. I’m logging in from Spread Eagle, WI today. It’s the last day of my 4th of July weekend trip and I will return home today to complete one workshi... more info

Music Mule — What? Vivian Girls have been one of the most talked about bands of the past year and I’m partly to blame for that as they’ve featured on Music Mule more than once. The Brooklyn girl 3-piece are hype worthy though with their distortion drenched 3 ... more info

Stereogum — "Moped Girl"'s appropriately slower, noisier B-Side "Death" is streaming at the Girls' MySpace sans pie fights, broken bones, and spilt milk. The single's out on For Us, the label of Rough Trade Shops. more info

NME — Brooklyn band also play one-off London show more info

Stereogum — Mike Miko are a fun live band, so they wisely made a fun live video for We Be Xuxa's "I Got A Lot (New New New)." Speaking of which: Much of the current DIY or lo-fi or "shitgaze" (or whatever) crop is peddling something downcast ("thoughtful") a ... more info

Culture Bully — Video footage of Vivian Girls being interviewed by Nardwuar the Human Serviette. more info

XLR8R — Everything is Wrong might be the title of the new Vivian Girls' album, but the last year or so leads us to believe that most things, musically, anyway, are moving along swimmingly for this trio of ladies. This is, after all, a band that received... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Vivian Girls @ Bowery Ballroom in December (more by Zach Stern) As we pointed out back in April, and further confirmed in a list of Abe Vigoda tour dates, The Whitney is hosting some indie rock shows this July, in... more info

NME - Radar — The last time I'd visited the Pavillion Theatre was to watch industrial metallers Pitchshifter in 1998. I was poorly, and had to leave before the end to sit on the loo and shiver for about 11 hours. So comparitively tonight's events really had a head... more info

Stereogum — The video for "Tell The World" found the Vivian Girls driving a convertible in front of a green-screened forest and battled bats, among other things, but mostly staring ahead at the road unblinkingly until they stopped to belt out a few lines in a fa... more info