Like a Down Under, rock version of Rock the Bells, St Jerome's Laneway Festival will travel to various cities around Australia once again next year. The 2009 installment of the festival goes down smack dab in the middle of the Australian summer, kicking off January 31 in Brisbane and wrapping things up February 8 in Sydney. The other cities cove...

I'm not a close follower of the Deerhunter blog, but the piece Bradford Cox wrote about Stereolab's "Blue Milk" about a year ago has stayed with me, because I felt like he and I hear the same things in that amazing song (he gets a Pitchfork dig in there, too, but whatev). Atlas Sound, Cox's side project, recently spent a few weeks opening for St...

The second part of Nitsuh Abebe's sit-down with Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier covers how long it takes for an album to come together, what it's like to pull song ideas from literature and dreams, and how it feels to be on the journey that is Stereolab. In case you missed it, Part 1.Pitchfork.tv page with embed code is here.

Nitsuh Abebe spoke recently to Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier of the brilliant Stereolab, whose latest album, the fine Chemical Chords, affirms their mindboggling consistency. They touch on subjects like analog vs. digital, the best place in their vast catalogue for a novice to begin, and the intricacies of the band's working methods. Che...