Salon and The Quietus interview Michael Stipe about R.E.M. calling it a day. Pitchfork reviews the group’s latest great hits collection, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 – 2011, which includes the beautiful new tune “We All Go Back To Where We Belong.”

Listen/Download Caribou’s Nightmare Before Christmas ATP Mix.

Aquarium Drunkard has a download of Deerhunter covering Pylon.

Surgeons In Heat have a new video for “The Price.”

Watch what might be the last Sonic Youth show ever here. (via Pitchfork). In related news, Thurston Moore is coming to Austin on February 11th to play St. Davids Church. His latest album, Demolished Thoughts is one of my favorites of the year.

I caught AA Bondy last night at the Parish in Austin. Bondy and his band played their new album, Believers in full and followed that with a handful of selections from American Hearts and When The Devil’s Loose. Openers Gold Leaves were a nice surprise and would be a welcomed listen to fans of Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket.

Stereogum premieres Yellow Ostrich’s new video for “Mary.”

Yours Truly collaborates with MTV for this amazing Zola Jesus video.

Spin interviews Bradford Cox.

Check out the Wild Beasts Take Away Show filmed by La Blogotheque during Pitchfork Music Festival Paris.

Videos from the tUnE-yArds show at Turner Hall Ballroom last week are online.

I purchased a ticket today for Roger Waters The Wall Live. There’s a bunch of new tour dates announced and based on several reliable sources who saw the last run, I parted with the hefty ducat fee and look forward to seeing the spectacle in person on May 3rd in Austin.

Listen to Feist’s full session From KCRW at NPR.

The Milwaukee Journtal-Sentinel interviews Eric Bachmann of Crooked Fingers. Milwaukee friends, don’t miss their show with Strand of Oaks and Testa Rosa supporting at the Cactus Club on Saturday, November 12th.

Conrad Plymouth covers Strand of Oaks’ “Two Kids” here.

Pitchfork interviews Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound.

Download J. Tillman doing Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night at Aquarium Drunkard.

Check out the new EP from Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven, which is up for pay-what-you-want download on their bandcamp page.

We’re excited to present the Rural Alberta Advantage at Mad Planet in Milwaukee on Wednesday, March 23rd and at the High Noon Saloon in Madison on Thursday, March 24th in support of their beautiful forthcoming release, Departing (March 1, Saddle Creek). You can listen to the entire new record right now at Exclaim. Spin chats with Amy Cole and offers up an MP3 of “North Star.”
MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage – “North Star”

Deerhunter performed “Memory Boy” on David Letterman from Halcyon Digest, one of our favorite records from 2010.

Listen to “Will Do” from TV on the Radio’s new album Nine Kinds of Light, which arrives April 12th. TV On The Radio are touring this spring.

Yellow Ostrich had some cassettes for sale when we were in New York last week. You can now stream/download the Fade Cave EP for the price of your choosing.

All Songs Considered “examines the music of the ’90s at its best, worst and weirdest” and Steve Hyden concludes his wonderful Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation? with “Part 10: 1999: By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …“

One of the albums I’m most excited about this year is tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l, which arrives April 19th on 4AD. If the track “Bizness” is any indication of what the rest of the record holds, we’re in for a beauty.
MP3: tUnE-yArDs – “Bizness”

Deerhunter have released an 8 track iTunes Live Session, entitled Live From Soho yesterday. It was an easy buy at $3.99. “The session was recorded late last September at the Apple Store in Soho, NYC and features back catalogue tracks as well as versions of several songs taken from latest album, Halcyon Digest.” Listen to ‘Desire Lines’ at Pitchfork.

Strand of Oaks has released demos/outtakes from Pope Killdragon. You can stream and download the entire collection here.

Timber Timbre’s back with a new album, Creep On Creepin’ On from which they’re sharing a stream of the the debut single, “Black Water.”

The Felice Brothers have signed to Fat Possum Records, who will release the band’s new album this spring. The Felice Brothers are touring significantly in the coming months.

Bonnaroo announced its line-up yesterday.

NPR has the first listen of Julianna Barwick’s album, The Magic Place.

I’m heading to the High Noon Saloon in Madison tonight for the Deerhoof show. It’s been a good number of years since I’ve seen the band live. AV Club Madison chats with drummer Greg Saunier. We interviewed guitarist Ed Rodriguez last week.

We’re presenting a top-notch showcase at Linneman’s in Milwaukee on Saturday, February 19th with performances by Icarus Himself, Sat. Nite Duets and Surgeons In Heat. Music starts at 9PM and $6 gets you in the door.

Update: Volcano Choir is playing Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee on Saturday, March 26th.

When No Age, Dan Deacon & Deerhunter combine to form Nodeachunter you know you’re in for a few surprises and a massive crowd. Last night’s show at the University of Wisconsin’s Terrace was jam-packed with people right up close to the stage. All accounts coming in say it was a memorable, though sometimes tense evening. Below, and per usual, find the fantastic photos from Ed Oliver.

Discuss: What did you think of the show? Is that you being body passed? What were the highlights of the night? Anybody buy the t-shirt?