Attempting to keep pace with the trio of albums scheduled for release this year, the reunited Guided By Voices have announced a number of additional tour dates to their itinerary.

The Afghan Whigs have released their first new new recording in over five years, a cover of "See and Don't See."

Earlier this week dream-pop duo Beach House released their highly anticipated new album Bloom.

Ahead of his newest album Aimlessness (due out June 5) Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) has offered us an exclusive mixtape that he calls Analog Meetups.

Last night Regina Spektor made an appearance as the musical guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. 

Somehow Conan O'Brien managed to be in two places at once last night, serving as both a guest on Letterman in New York and host of his own show in L.A.

Antony and the Johnsons have announced that the band will release a new live album entitled Cut the World.

After making three albums together, Handsome Furs' husband and wife team Dan Boeckner and Alexi Perry have ended their musical collaboration.

The eighth annual Great Escape Festival took place last weekend in Brighton, U.K., with many amazing bands gracing the local stages in the charming seaside English town. Here's a gallery of photos from the festival, including photos of Grimes, EMA, Beth Jeans Houghton, Django Django, Slow Club, When Saints Go Machine, Porcelain Raft, and others.

In the drought since their last full-length album Bleed Like Me was released in 2005, Garbage has left fans reeling from quite a seven-year itch. It's not that the members (Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker) had gone into creative hibernation-Vig was busy producing, taking home a Grammy for Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown; Manson was acting out with a leading role in the short-lived TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles when not working on her yet-to-be-released solo album; and the band itself released a greatest hits compilation Absolute Garbage in 2007 to quell the pressure for new music amid an indefinite hiatus.

Echo & the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant is multi-faceted talent. In addition to making music with the Bunnymen and as a solo artist, he’s an accomplished multimedia visual artist. It’s a passion that—over the past few years—has accumulated in his first gallery showing.

This week The xx have been have been engaged in a series of intimate shows playing their hometown of London.

Singer Donna Summer, known as "The Queen of Disco" has passed away at the age of 63.

Recently wrapping up a North American headlining tour in support of their latest album Ghostory, School of Seven Bells have announced a multi-nation set of shows set to take place throughout the summer.

Justin Paul Vallesteros has been studying his Radio Dept. How else do you explain the (very) subtle expansion of sound on Craft Spells' new EP Gallery? Embracing a floaty aesthetic not unlike the Swedish dream pop band's, Vallesteros and his cohorts seem to glide through six tracks, concerning themselves with (in no particular order), girls, loneliness, summer days—or, often, all of the above.

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012, Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury took the stage for an in-store at Orbital Comics in London, England for their first ever performance of music from DROKK. DROKK is their album inspired by the Judge Dredd and 2000 AD comics, hence performing in a comic book shop with Judge Dredd and 2000 AD comics behind the band. Photographer Wendy Lynch Redfern was there to capture the performance.

John Maus has revealed that he will be releasing a collection of rarities and previously unreleased material appropriately named A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy has announced that he will be participating in a series of free record store performances throughout the Puget Sound area next month from June 9-13.

After putting out their debut album Welcome to Condale late last year, pop duo Summer Camp are poised to release a new EP entitled Always on July 10.

Last night L.A. duo Best Coast brought their sunny garage tunes to the Ed Sullivan Theater in an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.