Indie-tronica band Letting Up Despite Great Faults is a relatively new Los Angeles based band. With guitar strums similar to that of New Order and an overall sound like that of The Postal Service, it’s no wonder that Ben Gibbard himself is a self-proclaimed fan. Letting Up’s sound, often described as “fuzzy synthpop”, has even been fortunate enough to garner them a song on the show One Tree Hill.

Interested in what they have to offer? Check out Letting Up Despite Great Faults below in our BeatCrave Fav series and if you like their sound as much as we do, vote for them in Friday’s poll!

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Because you can only see La bohème or Don Giovanni so many times before thinking, ‘What… what is this missing?’ before snapping your fingers and exclaiming, ‘Where’s the fried chicken?!?,’ English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage will be blessing us all on February 12, 2011 with the world premiere of his new opera, Anna Nicole. As in, Anna Nicole Smith. Yes, her.

Associated Press reports that the opera is set to debut at the Royal Opera with Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek in the lead roll, direction by Richard Jones and conduction by Antonio Pappano.

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Weezer, AFI, The Raveonettes, Rogue Wave and She & Him are just a few of the artists on the schedule to perform at the inaugural Verge Music Festival, scheduled for June 4 and 5 at the Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The festival name was chosen by a fan vote to become the name of the modern/alt-rock music festival. The name ‘Verge’ received 37 percent of the vote, just nudging past ‘Parallel, which collected 35 percent. ‘Diatonic’ came in third.

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The next installment of Rock Band is on the way: MTV Games and Harmonix have announced that Rock Band 3 will be here just in time for the holidays.

The announcement hit the airwaves via the game’s official Facebook page, saying the next version in the series is set to “innovate and revolutionise the music genre once again.”

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The Runaways is the music-fueled, coming of age story about a groundbreaking, all-girl 1970’s rock band. Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning (yes, little Miss Fanning is all grown up) as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively. The movie is based on the true story of the bad-ass rock chicks that made up the 1970s band.

Watch the trailer below…

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Alternative rock band, Muse become the first band to have two songs in the top three spots on the alternative rock charts as well as the BDS Alternative Rock charts in the same week. This is coming a year after the bands single “Uprising” remained at No. 1 for 19 consecutive weeks on Mediabase’s Alternative Rock chart, which was a record for the longest run at No. 1 in the history of the chart.

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Good news lucky people attending this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX: Billboard reports that Muse are set play a club show at Stubb’s on Saturday (March 20).

The show hasn’t been officially confirmed, but c’mon! – they are so playing.

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Indie or mainstream music fan, it’s safe to assume that mostly everyone liked what they heard off of MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular which was released way back in 2007. Instant hits such as ‘Time To Pretend,” “Kids,” and “Electric Feel” solidified the Brooklyn duo as the ultimate hipsters who loved to sing in falsetto and dance with half-naked people in the forest. Eccentric with incredibly strong pop melodies is what we all fell for, to say the least.

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If you haven’t swooned for Zooey Deschanel yet during this lifetime, her latest video as part of She & Him (with M. Ward) may just do the trick. Not only is Deschanel a rising actress who has fit any indie film synopsis with her perfect looks and quirky and deadpan humor in the past, but she can sing (as we all know) dance, AND hula hoop! Prepare yourself for some indie cuteness with their new video for “In The Sun” below!

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