Download ATL RMX, a New Compilation From Cartoon Purveyors/Obvious Psychedelic Drug Users Adult Swim Featuring Atlanta Hip-Hop Remixed by HEALTH, SALEM, and Other All Capitalized Hipster Electronica Projects [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Stream New Smashing Pumpkins, “A Song for a Son,” the first of 44 Songs that Will Make Up the Predestined Tragedy that is Teargarden by Kaleidyscope; Elsewhere, What the Hell Happened to the Smashing Pumpkins’ Website? It Looks Like it Was Taken Over By Grateful Dead Groupies, Circa 1978 [Spinner]
Rivers Cuomo Injured in Tour Bus Accident (Don’t Worry, He’s Okay); Weezer Cancels Remainder of their U.S Tour; Rivers Heard to Shout “God Damn You Half Visible Black Ice…You Do It to Me Every Time” [Spin]
Sigur Ros Frontman Jonsi Birgisson Has Fronted a Band, a Duo, and Now a Solo Project – Announces Solo Debut Go; Stream the First Available Track “Boy Lilikoi,” Which is Maybe the Most Orchestral Thing Jonsi Has Ever Done…Which is Confusing, Considering Sigur Ros is a Orchestral Rock Band…; Released March 21 [Pitchfork]
Chan Marshall, Better Known as Cat Power, Announces Her Next Album, Her First Collection of Original Songs Since 2006’s The Greatest. She’ll Be Recording It Without Her Backing Band, And Claims the Songs are “Sad,” and That Makes Her “Nervous,” So Let’s Hope its “Good” So She Has Nothing to Worry “About” [NME]
Postal Service Attempting to Drain Shellac’s Steve Albini, and the Children of Chicago of Any/All Christmas Spirit, Demanding the Letters to Santa Program Send All Their Charitable Gifts Through the Mail…No, Not that Postal Service. THAT Postal Service [Pitchfork]
Stream New Vampire Weekend, “California English Pt. 2,” and Hear as Vampire Weekend Continues to Convince Me That They are Emotively and Musically Not Only Important, But Necessary…Watch My Brain Meltdown as I Become Paradoxical to Everything I Initially Believed About Myself, Doubt Existence as It Currently Stands [Prefix]
Frightened Rabbit, the Second Nervous-Animals to Be Featured in Today’s Daily News Picks (See Above), Announce Their Next Album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, to be Released on March 1, Following an Allegedly Drunken, Jager-Bomb Fuelled Winter [NME]
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Woodstock Rarities Finally See Release [Billboard]
MoMA Showcases Exhibition on Early NYC Punks [Brooklyn Vegan]
Cat Power, Juliette Lewis, and the Pretenders Announce Tour Together [Pitchfork]
Bruce Springsteen Plays Last Ever Show at Giants’ Stadium [Brooklyn Vegan]
MTV Unplugged Gets Revived…Again [Idolator]
“Britain’s Got Talent” Star Susan Boyle Released From Mental Clinic [Billboard]
New Dinosaur Jr. Video For Farm Single “Over It” Hilariously Nineties [Idolator]
Mastodon Releases a Pair of Vans [Pitchfork]
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon Chastises Radiohead’s “Pay-What-You-Will” Strategy [NME]
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Kanye West Speaks on the State of Stardom [Idolator]
Cat Power Will Share the Stage with Juliette Lewis – Yes, Really [Pitchfork]
Discovery Dudes (of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot) Dropping First LP [Pitchfork]
Coverage of Joey Ramone’s Birthday Bash [SPIN]
Sad Day for Park Slope Record Store [Brooklyn Vegan]
Blur Boys on Tour, May Hit our Shores [The Tripwire]
New Music Venue, Berry Park, Opening in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Vegan]
Franz Ferdinand Will Release a New Single! [NME]
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