Jay Z and Alicia Keys Delay Performance of “Empire State of Mind” at Yankees/Phillies World Series To Thursday; Jay Set to Censor “Empire” For the Performance, Meaning All Uses of “Shit” Will Hopefully Get Changed to “Shoot,” “Poop,” or “Barnacles” [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch Superchunk Frontman/Merge Records Founder Mac McCaughan Cover Merge Artists Spoon and the Magnetic Fields; He’s Playing “Come Back From San Francisco” Which Is One of the Loveliest of the 69 Love Songs [Spin]
Download Brand New Lil Wayne Mixtape No Ceiling Right Now; Man, The Next Weezy Mixtape May Be Live Mixed From Prison. Possible Prison Titles “Robitussin Prison Blues,” “Me and T.I. Out in the Stockyard,” “My Daddy (Remix)” [Nah Right]
Watch Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas Sing/Laugh/Be Merry/Look Creepy During a Tonight Show Performance of “11th Dimension;” Upcoming LP Phrazes for the Young Released November 3 [Prefix]
Stream Swedish Duo Air France’s Remix of St. Etienne’s “Spring;” It’s Light and Organic, Unlike Most of Air France’s Material, Which Sounds Almost Directly Ripped From the Soundtrack of Sega’s Sonic Adventure [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Video For Basement Jaxx’s “My Turn,” Which Makes Heavy Use of One of the Most Underrepresented Figures in Nature/Pop Culture: Bears With Swords [Stereogum]
Norwegian DJ Extraordinaire Lindstrøm To Record 40 Minute Version of the “Little Drummer Boy”; Elsewhere, I Pull Out My “List of Things I Really Don’t Need” And Add a 40 Minute Version of “Little Drummer Boy” [Pitchfork]
Watch Brooklynites Real Estate Jam Through a Bunch of Tracks in Uncomfortably Close Quarters in the Tripwire’s Studio; Imagine That it Must Not Smell So Good in that Studio [The Tripwire]
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New Air France Song is Really, Really Hot [Gorilla vs. Bear]
N.E.R.D. Release Videogame With Completely Inexplicable Plot [Spin]
Punch-Out! 8-Bit Duo Crystal Castles’ Alice Glass Punches Security Guard at Barcelona’s Sonar Festival [NME]
Summer of Wu Continues: New Wu-Tang Compilation Chamber Music Sees Release June 30th [Pitchfork]
TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone Announces Solo Project, “Rain Machine” [Pitchfork]
Stream Belle and Sebastian Leader Stuart Murdoch’s God Help the Girl [Matablog]
Former Soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Sells Album of Romantic Ballads For $164,000 (Insert Yakov Smirnoff Joke Here) [NME]
Broken Social Scene Debut New Song at Secret Show in Toronto [Stereogum]
Philly Dream-Poppers A Sunny Day in Glasgow Announce Second Album, Ashes Grammar [Pitchfork]
Emo Pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate Book First Shows in Nearly a Decade [Idolator]
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