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Band of Horses make soaring, earthy guitar anthems and have roots in Seattle. So do Pearl Jam. Band of Horses will open a bunch of dates for the grunge megastars in May. A good look for both bands! That BoH ...

Belle and Sebastian are back! After taking a few years off while Stuart Murdoch released his God Help the Girl project, the Scottish indie leading lights have returned to the studio and the stage. (Via Exclaim!/TwentyFourBit.) In an email sent out to ...

Norway's Bigbang Return Stateside New Album Edendale Is A Tribute to Silverlake, Los Angeles Bigbang Bigbang have returned stateside with Edendale, their tribute to the Silverlake area of the city of Los Angeles. Front man and founder Øystein Greni explains: "The ...

Photo by David Hill Band of Horses return with their much anticipated third album, Infinite Arms, on May 18. But what label will release it? Possibly Sub Pop, who released their first two albums, but possibly not. The label hasn't been announced yet. UPDATE: Sub ...

Photo by Gail Butensky UPDATE: Spiral Stairs has posted an entry on his blog about the Auckland show, featuring photos and the setlist. As you may have heard, the indie rock band Pavement are traveling around the world on a reunion tour this year. And just ...

Photo via Spiral Stairs' blog Superfans rejoice! The Pavement reunion tour is now just a few days away from kicking into gear; the first show goes down March 1 in Auckland, New Zealand. And a couple of members of the band giving ...

MP3:> She & Him: Thieves M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel's sophomore album as She & Him, Volume Two, is out exactly one month from today, March 23, via Merge. (April 5 ...

Serena Maneesh (pictured above) Efterklang, Jaga Jazzist, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and many more played in Oslo, Norway last week for by:Larm, the Scandinavian equivalent of CMJ or SXSW. Our photographer Eirik Lande captured the action. Jaga Jazzist Oh ...

Photo by Christian Coinbergh MP3:> Shout Out Louds: "Fall Hard (Passion Pit's Summertime Radio Remix)" Next week, Merge will release Work, the third album from the Swedish indie poppers Shout ...

Bad debts are peaking and pay falling at Europe’s banks TWO YEARS ago banks began to include in their results announcements tables meant to show that their exposure to toxic securities was under control. The crisis has moved on: now one European financial firm’s presentation includes a slide that pleads, ...

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST ANNOUNCES PARTIAL BAND LIST, PANEL INFO, STAGE NEWS Pretty Lights The South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival, scheduled to take place March 17-21, 2010 in Austin, Texas, is pleased to announce a few of the bands scheduled to perform, artists ...

Baltimore dreampoppers Beach House recently sat down to record a Daytrotter session, doing new versions of four of the songs from their BNM'ed new LP Teen Dream. You can stream and/or download the woozy, soft-focus ...

Lou Reed and his Metal Machine Trio bring music inspired by Reed's infamously abrasive 1975 album Metal Machine Music to the live stage in Europe for a string of dates this April. Accompanied by sax player Ulrich Krieger and noize maker Sarth Calhoun, Reed is set to play ...

China Fishery Group, a unit of Pacific Andes Resources Development, has applied for a secondary listing of all of its ordinary shares on Oslo Børs of Norway. China Fishery proposes to carry out an offering of new shares in connection with the proposed secondary listing. ABG Sundal Collier ...

China Fishery Group, a unit of Pacific Andes Resources Development, has applied for a secondary listing of all of its ordinary shares on Oslo Børs of Norway. China Fishery proposes to carry out an offering of new shares in connection with the proposed secondary listing. ABG Sundal Collier ...

MARKETS ARE STILL assessing the steps taken by the People’s Bank of China to rein in runaway credit. Last week, the PBOC announced it would increase bank reserve ratio requirements (from 15.5% to 16% for large banks) on Jan 18. China is the third country to ...

1929: Martin Luther King Jr. is born. Though his work for civil rights and peace will become widely known, he will also deliver an important warning on the perils of technological amorality. King delivered a lecture at the University of Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 11, 1964, the day after receiving the ...

For nearly two decades, the British abstract electronic duo Autechre have been cranking out convoluted beats and seasick basslines. On March 22 in the UK and March 23 in the U.S., they'll release their new album, Oversteps, on longtime home ...

BEACH HOUSE ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR DATES Beach House After an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (January 22), a Sundance drop in, a New York record release show, and a quick spin around Europe, Baltimore's Beach House will tour the U.S. in support of ...

In a Pitchfork interview last year, Ernest Greene, the young Southern dude who records hazy, spectral synthpop under the name Washed Out, said that he was "not really" interested in touring, mostly because he didn't think people would be interested in watching just him on a stage. But ...