Bat For Lashes

Doomsday Student @ CMJ 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) today in Chicago * The Fun, Lame Drivers, Woolen Men @ The Burlington * Punch, Sin Orden, Other Women, Haka @ The Mousetrap * Ana Tijoux, Sidi Toure @ Jay Pritzker Pavilion (Free Show) * Chief Ghoul, The Bears Of Blue River, Town Hall, Sam Vicari @ Township (Free Show) * Doomsday Student, Tinsel Teeth, Oozing Wound, Spanyurd @ Empty Bottle (Free Show) Bat For Lashes released a new single, called “Laura,” today…

Bat for Lashes returns this fall with The Haunted Man, her first new album in three years and the first new music we’ve heard from Natasha Khan since her duet with Beck on the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack in 2010…

“Rock Werchter is a Belgian annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, since 1973. It is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe (the other four being Exit, Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival and Roskilde Festival)…

We try to keep tabs on various festivals around the world here on BrooklynVegan, many of which you’ll eventually see pictures from. Today we focus on Belgium…

DOWNLOAD: Josh T. Pearson – Woman, When I’ve Raised Hell (WAV) “The hubbub from upstairs regularly intrudes through swinging doors on an intimacy that requires leaning in, to hear Pearson’s murmurs…

“Agh. Free Black Keys concert tonight at the Classic Car Club but lines were CRAZY!” – quiet soliloquy “Fans have overwhelmingly expressed, in 354+ comments on The Black Keys Facebook page, that the band has “sold out” following an announcement that a new song, “Chop And Change”, will be a part of the soundtrack for the third installment of extremely popular vampire movie franchise “Twilight”…

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here’s some of that lost material…

Animal Collective @ ATP NY (more by Ryan Muir)So how the hell did– an album closer in spirit to the sub-aquatic psychedelia of 2005’s and Panda Bear’s 2007 solo than its predecessor– wind up in the Billboard Top 20 and outsell both the Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand‘s most recent albums in North America…

The December issue of Q Magazine is an ‘Artists Of The Century’ special edition, covering all of the acts that the fine staff of the good ship Q feel are the most important of the century so far…

Yeasayer @ Hudson River Park in August (more by Bao Nguyen)Yeasayer recently revealed in an interview with Pitchfork that they had finished their sophomore album and it would be released on January 19, 2010…