Cymbals Eat Guitars, Real Estate, and JM.Com’s July Feature Band The Drums All Set To Play Online Record Store Insound’s 10th Anniversary Party at Brooklyn Bowl [Brooklyn Vegan]
John Hughes, Director of The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buehler’s Day Off, And a Major Force In Popularizing New Wave, Passes Away at 59 [New York Times]
All Tomorrow’s Parties NY Finalizes Its Line-Up; Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and Menomena Join the Already Bomb-Ass 3-Day Extravaganza [Brooklyn Vegan]
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival Replaces Headliners Beastie Boys With Tenacious D (Man, There’s Going To Be a Stark Contrast Between Hearing Beasties Highlight “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” and Hearing Tenacious D’s Highlight “Fuck Her Gently”) [Spin]
Purchase Everlasting Punk Force Iggy Pop’s New Album Preliminaries For $3.99 Today Only [Spin]
Bob Dylan, A Jewish American and Cultural Legend, Slated To Release A Christmas Album This Winter – How Is It That Bob Dylan Can Be In Recorded Music For 50 Years, And Still Be Really, Really Weird? [Billboard]
Watch Garage Punk Jay Reatard’s 20-Minute Documentary Waiting For Something; Dude Hilariously Insults Just About Everything, From Thievery, To Audiences, To Effort [Prefix]
UK House Duo Basement Jaxx Announce New LP, Debut New Video For Single, “Raindrops” (This Video Is Absolutely Batshit; It’s As If The Mummy Was Set In Moulin Rouge…Only With Techno); Scars Released October 6 [The Tripwire]
Willy DeVille, Frontman Of Early New York Punk Band Mink DeVille Passes Away At 58 [ABC]
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The Big Pink To Tour North America [Pitchfork]
Like Peas In A Pod, Peanut Butter and…Jam. The Boys From The Jam Are Friends Again [The Tripwire]
Face Painted Fun? “Relentless Depravity?” Either Way, The Juggalos Are Gathering Once Again [SPIN]
Tenacious D To Replace Beastie Boys, Bring “Earthquake of Rock” To Outside Lands [Rolling Stone]
Former Shins Drummer Jesse Sandoval Spells It Out: “I Got Fired” [Pitchfork]
The Books U.S. Tour More Fun Than Reading, Sources Say [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Horrors’ Frontman Covers Black Lips’ “I’ll Be With You” [Pitchfork]
Ay Yay Yay, More Stage Frights! Steven Tyler Hospitalized After Stage Fall [IMDb]
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Jay-Z to Replace Beastie Boys at All Points West [NME]
Since Everyone Loves Wu-Tang and Legos: “Da Mystery Of Chessboxin” Video in Lego Form [Prefix]
Ghostface’s First Single From The Wizard of Poetry Bringing Back Autotune Already! Oh Wait, It Was Never Gone… [Idolator]
White Rabbits Provide Soundtrack for Ralph Lauren Fall Season [Stereogum]
Flight of the Conchords to Release New LP, I Told You I Was Freaky [Pitchfork]
Battles, !!!, Prefuse 73 to Play Warp Records 20th Anniversary Show [Tripwire]
A Whale of a Remix! DJ Josh Kouzomis Remixes Mastadon [Sterogum]
Check Out The Raveonettes’ Tour and New LP [The Tripwire]
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We Still Wish He’d Made “G Train” Instead: Sufjan Stevens to Release “BQE” Multimedia Set [Pitchfork]
Legendary “Nasty Gal” Betty Davis to Rerelease Two Albums. Funk Yeah! [The Tripwire]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Replace Beastie Boys at Lollapalooza, No No No Word on Replacement for All Points West [Stereogum]
Yo La Tengo, Bill Callahan, Jay Reatard and More Contribute to Chris Knox Covers Compilation [Pitchfork]
Watch Our New Favorite Joy Division Cover: Steel Drum Band Plays “Transmission” [The Tripwire]
And For A Couple of Not-So-Good Covers: Ian Brown Covers Michael Jackson, Releases Jackson-Inspired Album [Prefix]
Jimi Hendrix’s Doctor Says It’s Plausible That He Was Murdered [NME]
Mmmm…Casper & The Cookies On Tour and in Town Tonight! [Brooklyn Vegan]
New Jarvis Cocker! (Gives Ya Enough Time To Learn The Words And Sing Along At MHOW Next Week) [Stereogum]
Check Out Tour Dates, Download Demos From Raveonettes [SPIN]
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Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, Better Known as MCA, Diagnosed With Cancer; Tour Cancelled and New Beasties LP, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, Delayed [Billboard]
Thriller Set to Break The Eagles’ Record As The Highest Selling Album of All-Time…Good. [Billboard]
Built To Spill Finishing Seventh LP, There Is No Enemy; Released Sometime In October [Brooklyn Vegan]
Andrew W.K. Appears On Fox News; Facially Ridicules Fox News, and Remains Awesome [Prefix]
Stream Neo-Hippies The Polyphonic Spree’s New Demo “Blurry” [Gorilla Vs. Bear]
Limp Bizkit Played First US Show In 5 Years; Guitarist Wes Borland Looks Straight Out of Apocalypto [Spin]
Ne-Yo Loves Fans, Hates Bloggers, And Is Really Quite A Sensitive Man [Idolator]
Stream New Islands Song “No You Don’t;” New LP Vapours Due Out September 22 [Pitchfork]
Satanic Verses Author Salman Rushdie and Alt-Rockers Dredg Confoundingly Come Together For Charity [Spin]
Lil Wayne’s Much-Anticipated (For All The Wrong Reasons) Rock Album Rebirth Joins Detox and Cuban Linx II On Long List of Rap Albums That Will Probably Never Be Released [Idolator]
Stream Thom Yorke’s New Song “Present Tense” Performed Live At England’s Latitude Festival [Spin]
British Police Investigating The Game And His Entourage On Charges Of Assault…And He Seemed Like Such A Family Man [Prefix]
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Beastie Boys’ Eighth Studio Album, Hot Sauce, Drops Sept. 15 [Billboard]
Bjork Streams Album of Alternate Live Takes on NPR, Screens Film at SVA Tonight [Tripwire]
Opening Cinematic from “The Beatles: Rock Band” Game Revealed [Rolling Stone]
Black Lips and King Khan & BBQ Show Team Up as Almighty Defenders; Album Out In September [Prefix]
Old Folks Trash Wilco and Praise Yo La Tengo’s “Humpin’ Music” [Pitchfork]
Honey Hush! (And Check Out the Lineup for the Coney Island Rockabilly Festival) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Hey You Record Collectors, Pavement Vinyl Reissue Out Today [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Hey You Digital Collectors, Factory Records Digital Box Set Released on iTunes [Pitchfork]
Who’s The Boss? Ticketmaster or Bruce Springsteen? [Prefix]
Former Wilco Member Jay Bennett Died of Overdose [Rolling Stone]
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Stream Austin Garage Rockers White Denim’s New Album Fits From NME [NME]
Leonard Cohen, Wolf Parade, Japandroids, and Fucked Up (?!) Long-Listed For Polaris Prize [Idolator]
Sigur Rós Wins Icelandic Game Show “Poppunktur;” Are Now Returning Champs [Pitchfork]
The Boss’s Blue Collar Looks a Little White, Withholding the Best Tickets From His Shows [NJ.Com]
Virgin Megastores Across the Country Officially Closed [Idolator]
Hip-Hop May Not Be Dead: Beastie Boys Duet With Nas at Bonnaroo [Pitchfork]
Lil Wayne Announces “Young Money Presents: America’s Most Wanted Music Festival” [SPIN]
Trent Reznor Retires From Live Music in the U.S. [NME]
Blur Finally Return to Live Stage [Pitchfork]
Michael Jackson Hires Lou Ferrigno, the 70s Incredible Hulk, as Trainer [Prefix]
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