Brooklyn Vegan — "i cant even begin to describe how much zach hill adds to wavves" - Nate Albert "The WAVVES live show sucks now. His new drummer is an overbearing double kick drumming metal-head." - Brad Horenstein Friday September 25th @ MARKET... more info

Stereogum — Some 90 acts descended upon Champaign-Urbana, IL this past weekend, performing across 14 venues and four days for the fifth annual Pygmalion Music Festival. We sent photographer John Gitchoff to circle the fest, and he delivers this spread includ... more info

Altsounds — Toronto-based group* Little Girls* (*Josh McIntyre* and co.) are preparing for an extensive North American tour performing with *Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Wavves *and *Nurses* among others. This fall tour will be in support ... more info

Guardian Music — The band's first album combined the epic rock of Aerosmith with the gentle melodies of the Beatles to create a slow, stoned groove absent in later recordsI found the recent controversy over Kurt Cobain's avatar in Guitar Hero 5 incredibly uncanny. Wh... more info

Detroit Free Press — WAVVES: Noise-pop artist Nathan Williams rolls through town with his latest Fat Possum release "Wavvves." Williams -- who performs under the moniker Wavves -- is joined by assistant Ryan Ulsh as they hit the new stage at the Majestic Café ton... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Japandroids at Pitchfork Music Festival 2009, Image: Devorah Klein Some good indie shows at some good small venues are coming up in the next few weeks, including Junior Boys at The Bell House on Halloween (!!): Rain Machine (with Kyp Malone of TV on... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I found Jeans Wilder via Woven Tones, via Best Coast... but I promise you JW is way, way, way better than that Strokes-ified Wavves wannabe, so listen up. There's not much info on these guys -- I do know they've released a few cassettes and 7's (and... more info

Stereogum — In its sixth year, Fuck Yeah Fest had the explicit intention of benefitting California's state parks, and implicit intention of scaring away media outlets afraid of things with "Fuck" in the title. (Well OK: this year did bring the family friendly... more info

Here Comes The Flood — The line-up for the third edition of Le Guess Who? in Utrecht, The Netherlands has been confirmed. The Festival for Underground Pop focuses on below the radar acts and artisans. Le Guess Who? November 26-29 Tivoli & Tivoli De Helling Utrecht, The ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Coathangers - Toomerhead (MP3) Coathangers @ Pianos CMJ08 (more by Faith-Ann Young) The Coathangers are going on tour this October with Japandroids (who will come to NYC on Sept. 24th with Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band). But before those... more info