Brooklyn Vegan — Glenn Kotche's Top 10 albums of 2009 (via) 1. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 2. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor 3. Alex Cline - Continuation 4. John Luther Adams - The Place We Began 5. Tortoise -... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Glenn Kotche's Top 10 albums of 2009 (via) 1. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 2. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor 3. Alex Cline - Continuation 4. John Luther Adams - The Place We Began 5. Tortoise -... more info

AngryApe — For February and March next year more info

NME — Jeff Tweedy and co to hit the road in February more info

Live Daily — The annual 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, MN, will take a hiatus because of financial difficulties. Promoters of the multi-day fest, which ran for the past seven Julys, posted a notice on the event website last week that said the 10KLF could... more info

Music for Robots — We'd like to take a second and welcome our new friends Because Sound Matters to our tiny little blogroll over there on the right. They're a new vinyl-only venture from the Warner Bros. family, offering reissues from all kinds of sick catalo... more info

Rolling Stone — As the Kings of Leon begin work on their first album of the next decade, bassist Jared Followill checked in with Rolling Stone to share his thoughts on his favorite albums of and songs of the past 10 years. From driving around Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Being a blog that is largely of the retro variety, I'm not all that fussed about publishing a rundown of what I reckon to have been the best songs/albums of the year/decade. Yes, I do admit to making a few suggestions last month of stuff that you mi... more info

Rollo & Grady — Paste – The 25 Best Albums of 2009 25. Thomas Function – In the Valley of Sickness 24. Various Artists – Dark Was the Night 23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! 22. Sufjan Stevens – The BQE 21. Wilco – Wilco (The A... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 02-07 Missoula, MT - Adams Center *02-09 Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall *02-10 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre *02-12 Victoria, British Columbia - Royal Theatre *02-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - David Lam Park *02-15 Edmonton, Albert... more info