NME - The Daily Download — Festival season may be over but the free MP3s keep coming. In fact, autumn's probably the best season for new releases. Here's our top ten this week. Enjoy! 1. Gallows – ‘True Colours’ We were all a bit sceptical about the future of post-Frank... more info

VH1 Blog — One of the minor instant celebrities of last night’s Video Music Awards was Tyler, The Creator‘s mother, who sobbed with pride and excitement when her son won the Best New Artist Moonman. It turns out that her on-camera presence is due in part to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "The VMAs unite us as a people, a shitty, shitty people. #VMAs" - Dave Hill Tyler's mom & Wavves @ the Video Music Awards (via Hipster Runoff) Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) has posted his thoughts on last night's VMAs. This... more info

ContactMusic — Stephen Pope, the bassist for punk act Wavves, was reportedly kicked out of Sunday night's (28Aug11) Mtv Video Music Awards for allegedly taking marijuana to the ceremony. Frontman Nathan Williams went public with the news via Twitter. com from the e... more info

Stereogum — Churlish punk pop posterboys Wavves dropped a new pre-VMAs single, “I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl” at virtually the same time as they were complaining about the VMAs themselves. It’s a strong, focused, hook-laden effort (despite the fact that these d... more info

Impose Magazine — Wavves and Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls played a free SummerStage show at East River Park on Thursday, August 25. See more images from this post. more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Last night, Wavves backed up Wu-Tang Clan's GZA on Fuel TV's "The Daily Habit" as he performed "Liquid Swords". Watch it below. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Wavves @ East River Park - 8/25/2011 (photo by robotgobot) Though last night's Wavves show went on as planned, and was even dry, Saturday & Sunday's performances of "Henry V" are cancelled (they were set to take place on the... more info

Stereogum — A couple of years ago, I watched the Wu-Tang legend GZA perform a short set with the Black Lips, and it was, to put things diplomatically, not good. On Fuel TV’s The Daily Habit last night, GZA tried something similar, performing his 1995 classic �... more info

Impose Magazine — Amid rolling earthquakes around the nation and civic ambivalence in the face of economic duress, at least we can always look to the musical tabloids for laughs and various curios of wonder. This week Bon Iver and James Blake realized they could cash ... more info