Bat For Lashes

Long-running UK music weekly NME has just published their Year-End issue and have named Tame Impala‘s Lonerism as album of the year, with Grimes, Frank Ocean, Crystal Castles and Alt-J rounding out the Top 5…

The Fly is the “UK’s most popular new music magazine,” but if you haven’t heard of it, its because it’s a free monthly that doesn’t really get international distribution…

It’s that time of year already I guess. NME quizzed a whole bunch of artists about their favorite album of the year. Bat For Lashes chose Alt-J who recently won the Mercury Prize and who chose Polica as their favorite…

The Helio Sequence @ Sasquatch Festival 2012 (more by Chris Graham) today in Chicago * David Dondero, Will Phalen @ Schubas * Matt & Kim, Oberhofer @ Congress Theater * Angela James, Rough Magic @ Empty Bottle * The Helio Sequence, Ramona Falls @ Lincoln Hall * Bettye LaVette, Eilen Jewell @ City Winery Chicago * Seluah, Circuit Des Yeux, Sea Hero @ The Burlington * Amanda Palmer, The Simple Pleasure, Jherek Bischoff @ Metro * Signals Midwest, Banquets, PJ Bond, Gunner’s Daughter @ Township * The Front Bottoms, Cheap Girls, The Please & Thank Yous @ Beat Kitchen * Gold Motel, Brother George, The Little Indians, The New Originals @ Subterranean The Helio Sequence and Ramona Falls play Lincoln Hall tonight…

NPR has got the streams of Bat For Lashes’ new moody synth pop opus, The Haunted Man (listen), Titus Andronicus’ very worthy back-to-basics successor to The Monitor, Local Business (listen), Sinkane‘s funky DFA debut, Mars (listen), and Pig Destroyer‘s grinding comeback album, Book Burner (listen)…

Why yes, we have posted a lot of stuff already today. Here’s some more Mythbuster? More like Myrthbuster. TV personality Jamie Hyneman apparently abandoned his first born…

Sun Kil Moon @ Sasquatch Festival 2009 (more by Chris Graham) today in Chicago * Taj Mahal Trio, Paul Cebar @ SPACE * Esperanza Spalding @ City Winery Chicago * Lupe Fiasco @ FYE (Free; In-store signing) * Mark Kozelek, Advance Base @ Lincoln Hall * Pacific Pride, Uh Bones, The Bingers @ The Burlington * Distractions, Molly Nilsson, Aleks & the Drummer @ Empty Bottle (Free Show) Mark Kozelek (aka Sun Kil Moon) headlines Lincoln Hall with support from Advance Base…

Miguel at MoMA PS1 in August (more by Leia Jospe) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Hot Tub @ Littlefield * Ka’a Davis @ The Stone * John and Scott @ UCB * Jay-Z @ Barclays Center * Miguel @ Bowery Ballroom * Jarrod Spector @ Joe’s Pub * Dum Dum Girls @ Other Music * Allen Toussaint @ City Winery * CC Carena, Sugar Life @ Zebulon * Stephane Wrembel @ Empire Rooftop * The Campilongo Quartet @ Living Room * Floating Action, Bird Dog @ Mercury Lounge * Paper Route, Alexander Howard @ Mercury Lounge * Bob Log III, Cheap Time, Ex-Humans @ Glasslands * Tony Scherr Trio w/ Anton Fier and Rob Jost @ Living Room * Public Forum Duet: Alec Baldwin and David Brooks @ Joe’s Pub * Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger (of The Doors) @ Tarrytown Music Hall If you missed Dum Dum Girls at Europa last night, you have another chance to catch them today, and for free inside Other Music…

Yeasayer in Austin earlier this month (more by Tim Griffin) We already posted lots of posts today. Here’s some more, and some reminders too…

Frank Ocean at Coachella 2012 (more by David Andrako) Tyler, the Creator at Pitchfork Fest 2011 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Trash Talk at BV-SXSW 2012 (More by Greg Cristman) today in NYC * Mallu @ MoMA * Kotorino @ Barbes * Oren Bloedow @ Barbes * Frank Ocean @ Terminal 5 * Kassa Overall @ The Stone * Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl * The Dave Hill Explosion @ UCB * The Universal Thump @ Barbes * Kishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees @ Joe’s Pub * Bomba Estereo, Il Abanico @ Webster Hall * Milagres, Indians, Zulu Pearls @ Glasslands * Slowdance (DJ set) @ Ace Hotel New York * Tom Shillue’s Funny Story @ Brooklyn Brewery * Eternal Summers, Ex Cops @ Mercury Lounge * Pedrito Martinez Group @ MetroTech Commons * Soul Asylum, Joseph Arthur @ Bowery Ballroom * The Dust Rays, Smoota, SORNE @ Brooklyn Bowl * Poolside (DJ Set), Sean Glass @ Hudson Terrace * Persephone’s Bees, Bizi Gara, Psychic @ Zebulon * Oberhofer, The Soft Pack, Royal Bangs @ Pier 84 CANCELLED * Marshall Crenshaw, Bottle Rockets @ City Winery * Milo Greene, Family Of The Year @ Mercury Lounge * Skaters, Liquor Store, Neon Windbreaker @ Swat Bar * Beach Day, Chalk & Numbers, Island Twins @ Cake Shop * Prawn, Calculator, Caravela, Tawny Peaks @ Maxwell’s * Agalloch, Taurus, Musk Ox @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Alien Whale, Ms…