DAILY NEWS PICKS

Hardly Art Signs Brooklyn‘s Golden Triangle [Brooklyn Vegan]

Neutral Milk Hotel, Carousels, and Now a School Play [Idolator]

Daft Punk Forays Again into Film [The Tripwire]

Animal Collective Appears Live on Letterman [Prefix]

Van Halen the Video Game! [Billboard]

Flaming Lips Frontman Gets Back to the Books [The Tripwire]

Coldplay Comments on Copyright Case (and a Funny Video) [Idolator]

The Dodos Are Ready To Do It Again [Pitchfork]

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