Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offFrankie Goes to Hollywood The Power of Love A perfect winter No 1, dizzy with electric pianos and overblown strings, drunk with gothic lyrics about death-defying love, and ... more info

Live Daily — Indie rockers Yeasayer [ tickets ] have mapped a spring North American headlining tour to help support the band's forthcoming sophomore studio set, "Odd Blood." The Brooklyn-based group will visit 27 cities on the trek, which kicks off April 3 in ... more info

NME — Brooklyn Band set for coast-to-coast tour next April and May more info

Rolling Stone — Hanson have announced a five-night residency at New York’s Gramercy Theater in April 2010, where the brothers will alternately perform one of their five albums in its entirety, including their upcoming new LP. Plus, Yeasayer set out in support of t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Anand Wilder of Yeasayer says the... Top Ten Diseases of 2009, as advertised on TV are... 10. Swine Flu 9. Restless Leg Syndrome 8. Dementia 7. Crohn's Disease 6. Erectile Dysfunction 5. Fibromyalgia 4. Alzheimer's Disease 3. Adult Acne 2.... more info

Stereogum — If you're not into everything Odd Blood -- aka the album that finds Yeasayer finding Ween (really, listen to "The Children" again and then flashback to God Ween Satan) -- no worries: Los Angeles Frenchkiss signees Local Natives offer up dusky, shimme... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 02-05 Los Angeles, CA - Natural History Museum 02-08 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom 02-09 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 02-16 Birmingham, England - Academy 202-17 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's02-19 Dublin, Ireland - Academy02-20 Belfast,... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — For no higher reason than wanting to leave you all with a little something special this weekend, here's a collection of songs that I've been absolutely in love with for the last month or so. I blggd abt some of them, and others I did not blg abt. It'... more info

Allmusic Blog — Yeasayer has unveiled artwork for the band’s upcoming Odd Blood, which arrives in early February courtesy of Secretly Canadian. Artist Benjamin Phelan created the cover image, which finds the trippy middle ground between 3D artwork and psychedelic ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — On sale now: The XX (DJ set) and VHS or Beta (DJ set) at (le) Poisson Rouge on January 2. Tickets The Drums and Surfer Blood at Bowery Ballroom on January 13. Tickets Julian Casablancas at Terminal Five on January 14. Tickets Prefuse 73 at Music Hal... more info