Guardian Music — Larmer Tree Gardens, DorsetFew festivals have surroundings as appealing as End of the Road, a lovingly put together event on the hilly border between Wiltshire and Dorset where you can play table tennis in a clearing, gather round a piano in the wood... more info

Stereogum — This past weekend Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, hosted the fifth annual End Of The Road Festival. This year’s lineup continued the festival’s peripheral deviation from its folk, Americana, and alt-country roots, featuring Yo La ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... V.A. - The Best Of Swing http://bestfbothworlds.blogspot.com jofel said... The Long Ryders: - Gunslinger Man - Capturing The Flag http://pulsatta.blogspot.com arthurfromholland said... Little Feat Waiting For Columbus(1977) in me... more info

KEXP Seattle — As you’ve probably noticed over the almost 3 years (!) of this particular blog series, the KCMU DJs were not just a bunch of opinionated jerks; they were quite intelligent and, usually, pretty knowledgeable about the music they were writing about (... more info

Totally Fuzzy — S R Management said... August means hot, hot means beer so it is "Hot Beer" time at Trick's Synthetic Podcast with: The Beer Set: Barrel Polka - Rudi Bohn Drinkin beer - Big Town Playboys Pigfoot And a Bottle of Beer - Jack DuPree Back 2 Back: Beer ... more info

NME — German label have confirmed a series of gigs in Berlin to mark their birthday more info

NME — Channeling Chilton: A Night of Alex Chilton's Music will take place in New York on July 28 more info

Perfect Porridge — Yo La Tengo at 80-35 Festival in Des Moines on July 3, 2010. More posts from [...] more info

Pitchfork — Earlier this week, we learned that Guided By Voices would reunite to play Matador's 21st birthday party, which goes down October 1-3 at the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas. But other than frontman Robert Pollard, Guided by Voices has had mor... more info

Pitchfork — UPDATE: Matador has announced the initial lineup for their 21st birthday party. In addition to the reunited GBV ("the Classic '93 - '96 lineup), it also features Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, the Jon Spencer... more info