Lily Allen, Who Recently Quit Music, Reissues Some of Her Music, Performs Music With Dizzee Rascal, Seems Completely Immersed In Music [Idolator]
Portishead Working On Follow-Up to Last Year’s Third; “It Could Be Out In a Year’s Time,” Meaning It Hopefully Won’t Take Another Decade [Pitchfork]
Stream Karen O’s Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack In Full; Feel All Fuzzy Inside, Grow Tired of the Seemingly Constant Clap Tracks [Stereogum]
British Post-Punk Dudes The Futureheads Working On a “Complicated” New Album; I Can’t Decide If It Would Be Sweeter If It Were This Kind Of Complicated, Or Some Other, More Complex Kind of Complicated [Prefix]
UK MC Lady Sovereign Arrested In Australia After Spitting In Someone’s Face; According To Twitter, Sovereign Believes Spitting “Nasty,” But Being Punched In the Head, Nastier [NME]
Watch New Andrew Bird Video For “Anonanimal” – Does This Remind Anyone Else of Day of the Tentacle? 90s Point And Click Adventure Game Fans? Too Niche? Guys? [Rolling Stone]
Stream Upcoming Air Album Love 2 In It’s Entirety; Simultaneously, See Who Else Is Currently Streaming Love 2 (Currently, There’s One Person In Siberia Listening, Probably Trying To Warm Up With Some Sweet, Breathy Air) [Prefix]
Nathan Williams From Wavves and Jared Swiley From Black Lips Got Into a Bit of a Scuffle, And Somehow Williams Won (Sort Of…He’s Just A Little Guy); Swiley Continually Calls Williams The F- Word (No, The Other, Really Bad F- Word) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Hey It’s Monday, We’re All Feeling A Little Down…Here’s A Couple New Sufjan Stevens Songs; Oh No, Now I’m Feeling Really Down [Pitchfork]
Stream Devendra Banhart’s Awesome Remix of Phoenix’s “Rome” – Devendra Being Good At Remixing Is Always Surprising, Like Remembering Cher Won An Oscar [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Video For Taken By Trees’ (Victoria Bergsman, That Girl Who Whistles and Sings on “Young Folks”) Cover of Animal Collective’s Merriweather Banger “My Girls,” Re-imagined As “My Boys” (Its Stupid. Plain and Simple) [Stereogum]
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Courtney Love Tweets At Her Disgust Of Kurt Cobain Appearing In Guitar Hero 5; Threatens To Sue Activision; Claims “Ever did intend on allowing GUITARHERO for me or for Kurt am NOT oko fucking ONO;” Meanwhile, Yoko Ono’s Name Remains “Yoko Ono” [Spin]
Watch New Air Video For “Sing Sang Sung” – Follow The Bouncing Ball Through What Looks Like Yoshi’s Island; Love 2 Released October 6 [Pitchfork]
Sufjan Stevens To Play All Of Seven Swans, His Most Christian (And Arguably Worst) Album At All Tomorrow’s Parties NY [ATP Twitter]
Brooklyn Snore-Pop Duo Beach House Sign To Sub Pop; Third LP (Still Unnamed) To Be Released Early 2010 [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Smashing Pumpkins Frontman/Sole Original Member Billy Corgan Launches Spirituality Website; Good For Him: Corgan Has Convinced Himself He’s God For About Twenty Years – Now He Has An Outlet To Prove It! [Pitchfork]
Britpop So-So’s The Cribs’ Fourth Album Ignore The Ignorant Outsell The Beatles Reissues – Americans Remain Unclear As To Whether The Cribs, The Hives, and The Bravery Are Different Bands [NME]
Watch New Sunset Rubdown Video For Dragonslayer Cut “Black Swan” – It’s A Third ITunes Visualizer, A Third Grim Fandango, And A Third Swedish Jeans Commercial (Alternatively: 100% Good, Ol’ Fashioned Peyote Induced Fun!) [Pitchfork]
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You’ve Had A Tough Day, I Understand…Here, Have A New Lil Wayne Track…There You Go, All Better Now [Prefix]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Off-Shoot Grinderman Announce Follow Up To Their 2007 Self-Titled Debut; To Be Released Early 2010 [NME]
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The Commodores Reunite With Lionel Richie At Essence Fest [Billboard]
Former Manager of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Allen Klein Passes Away [NME]
“California Family Claims to See Michael Jackson’s Face in Tree” — No Joke Can Make That Headline Funnier [CBS13]
Foo Fighters Debut New Song At Obama’s USO 4th of July Party…Obama Pleased, But Really Wanted to Hear Grohl Cover “Tiny Dancer” [Spin]
Twilight Sad Tour U.S. With Frightened Rabbit – Fans Work Hard on Their Scottish Accents for Sing Alongs [Tripwire]
Radiohead Manager Brian Message Launches Polyphonic Records; Allows Artists to Keep Copyrights [NME]
Jack White Sets Up Subscription Service Through His Record Label; Cryptically Called “The Vault” [Spin]
Dinosaur Jr.’s/Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow to Release Goodnight Unknown October 6 [Pitchfork]
Listen to New Air Track, “Do the Joy” Now! It’s Robotic! Hypnotic! Dreamy! It Sounds Exactly Like Air! [Prefix]
Oasis’ Noel Gallagher Really Loves Drugs [Prefix]
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Weekly Review
Despite the persistent downpour as of late, that antsy, endless-activity feeling of summer is starting to creep its way into the music stratosphere. Though some are promised to come out sooner than others, the number of tours and albums announced this past week alone is staggering – even the old timers are finding their way back into the storm. And talk of summer festivals and concert series, both old and new, has begun to saturate the air. Hopefully soon, the clouds will clear so we can walk away from at least some of them with that sunburn badge of honor and start listening to those new releases by the pool – or perhaps bringing them into the pool. Wet t-shirt contest, anyone?
by Elana Jacobs
Paul McCartney Scoring Soundtrack to Film Based on Children’s Book [NME]
New Air Album in October, Single Drops in July [SPIN]
Beck to Cover Classic Albums with “Record Club” [Rolling Stone]
New Concert Series at the Guggenheim featuring Grizzly Bear, High Places, The Walkmen [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch New These Are Powers Video, “Easy Answers” [Stereogum]
Book About Merge Records to be Released September 15 [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Record Store Day Presents First Ever “Vinyl Saturday” this Weekend [Record Store Day]
Os Mutantes To Release First Album in 35 Years [NME]
Klaxons Album Now Due Next Decade [Prefix]
Woods To Tour With Dungen [Pitchfork]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
