Caroline Smith & Jeremy Messesmith @ 7th St Entry – Review & Video via Cakein15

Puffy Areolas - Tonight @ Monster Island Basement (NYC) @ Brooklyn Vegan

Box Elders stole the show @ Market Hotel in NYC – Brooklyn Vegan has pictures & words, coming to The Hexagon in Minneapolis on 2.27

Will Oldham – Performs new Bonnie Prince Billy track – You Aint No Picasso has the scoop

Fever Ray – The Knife side project Watch the video @ Muzzle Of Bees

M. Ward - New album streaming @ NPR

Andrew Bird – Also has a new album streaming @ NPR & An amazing instrumental album on his website..

Adam Green – “Rich Kids” - of Moldy Peaches fame is featured on RCRD LBL

Bat For Lashes – Confirms new album & UK tour @ The Quiteus

Animal Collective vs. Ratatat via Gorilla vs. Bear

mp3:

RATATAT :: mirando (animal collective remix)

Buy 12″ Single from Beggars Group

Alela Diane  -White as Diamonds - Brand new video courtesy My Old Kentucky Blog

from brooklyn vegan

One For The Team are in town from Minneapolis to play Cake Shop on (coincedentally?) the same night one of their songs plays on MTV’s The Real World Brooklyn (I didn’t even fully realize the show was on yet).

from culture bully

Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. Here, Ian Anderson of Minneapolis’ One For The Team dissects the spiral of thoughts which formed the theme to one of the group’s most recent singles from their latest release, Build It Up.