Supposed Dates For 2010 Daft Punk Tour Leak, Including a Stop in Yankees Stadium on August 15 – Dates are Not Yet Confirmed, But Will Most Likely Be Kept as Robots Have No Place For Scheduling Errors, and Most Likely Have Google Maps Stored in their Titanium Minds [NME]
Sunset Rubdown Frontman/Wolf Parade Co-Frontman/Swan Lake Co-Co-Frontman Spencer Krug Desires More Attention, Records Solo Under Pseudonym “Moonface;” Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums Released January 26 [Pitchfork]
All Tomorrow’s Parties Announce Initial “Don’t Look Back” Line-Up for ATP New York; Iggy & the Stooges Performing Raw Power From Cover to Cover; Remains to be Seen Whether or Not Mr. Pop Will Finally Promise on Walking Street as Cheetah; ATP New York Takes Place September 3, 2010 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Swedish Songstress Lykke Li Releases a Free Cover of the Shirelles’ classic, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” Stream It Here; Considering the Heartbreaking Pace of the Song, I’m Guessing Li Has Already Answered that Question With a Firm “No” [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Lily Allen (Who, Let’s Remember, “Quit” Music Due to Illegal Downloading (Allegedly (…At This Point, Pretty Sure She Didn’t Quit))) Says She’s Fine With People Buying Burned Copies of Her CDs, as Long as They Pay For Them; Elsewhere, Who Wants to Buy a “Copy” of Alright, Still? [NME]
Merge Reissues Neutral Milk Hotel’s Albums; Releases Two Videos of Jeff Mangum Playing Aeroplane’s “Two Headed Boy” and Avery Island’s “April 8th.” Warning: These Videos Made Me Cry Due to Intensity of Mangum’s Music and Memories. Maybe NSFW, if Your Co-Workers Are Likely to Call You Names [Youtube]
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Dickie Peterson, Bassist and Lead Singer of Foundational Metal Band Blue Cheer, Passes Away at 61 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s Bleak Theme From the Film Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road; No Words, Just Grandiose Post-Apocalyptic Meandering [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Sufjan Stevens Is Going Through Serious Soul Searching, Questioning Point of Both The Song and The Album, Seems Loaded With Melancholia (In Other Words, Sufjan Stevens Feeling Exactly Like Sufjan Stevens) [Vish Khanna]
Stream “This Is It,” a Posthumous Michael Jackson Recording Featured in the Upcoming Jackson Documentary This Is It; “This Is It” and This Is It Making Good Case For This Not Really Being It, Unless “It” Is Mediocre Jackson Material [Pitchfork]
Musicians Come Together In London In Debate On Future of the Music Industry – While Everyone Familiar With Daft Punk Know They Have Already Figured It Out: Become Robots [NME]
Stream New Brooklyn Fuck-Core (Yeah, I Just Invented That Genre) Giants Lightning Bolt, “Flooded Chamber” – A Tribal, Ecstatic Blitzkrieg of Sound and Drums, Which I’m Pretty Sure Samples Radiohead’s “Pact Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box” at The Beginning; Garden of Earthly Delights Released Tomorrow [Stereogum]
Stream New Fall Out Boy, “Alpha Dog” – Which Is a Hilarious Amalgamation of Overproduced Cock-Pop, and Gang Vocals That Slightly Resemble The Bee Gees; Elsewhere, My Readership Confused As To Why I Post New Fall Out Boy Song [Idolator]
I Like Elvis, But Not Enough To Dig Up His Body or Anything Weird Like That…Hmm…How Can I Show My Love For The King? I Know! I’ll Buy His Hair! (Yes, This is Real) [The Tripwire]
Stream Burial (That UK Dub-Guy Who…You Know, Everyone Loves) and Flying Lotus (That L.A. Glitch-Guy Who…You Know, Everyone Is Sort of Indifferent Towards) Collaboration; As Such, Track Is Sort of Unremarkable [Gorilla vs. Bear]
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Ryan Adams To Appear At New York Public Library To Discuss His New Book, HelloSunshine…With Weeds Star Mary Louise Parker; Journalists Confused As To What Weeds Has To Do With Ryan Adams [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Chicago’s Smith Westerns New Track “Imagine Pt. 3” (First Impression: It’s Awesome, Sunshiney, Poppy, Optimistic, Bombastic…Did I Say Awesome?) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch New Grizzly Bear Video For Veckatimest Highlight “While You Wait For The Others” (Video Makes No Sense, But May Just Be A Tribute To Underappreciated Fencing); Better Yet, Don’t Waste Your Time And Just Listen To This [Pitchfork]
Weezer Releases Upcoming LP Ratitude’s Cover Art (I’ll Save You A Click: It’s A Picture of a Dog Jumping Really High…and It Says Ratitude. That’s All); Ratitude Released October 27 [Idolator]
Portland Dance-Poppers Starfucker Change Name From Starfucker; Awesome Band Names Get Less Awesome (And I Swear To God, If Anal Cunt Stops Being Anal Cunt, I’ll Scream) [The Tripwire]
French House Duo Daft Punk To Appear In Upcoming DJ Hero Videogame; First Screenshot Here…Which Yet Again Proves My Theory That Daft Punk Are Actually Highly Sophisticated Robots [Spin]
Frank Sinatra Estate Releases “Come Fly With Me” Limited Edition Wine; Meanwhile, Japanese Company Makes Bad Brains Flip Flops (I Favor the Latter As a Superior Tribute) [Prefix]
Seattle Math-Rockers Minus The Bear To Debut New Material At The Gramercy Theater On October 15; New Single “The Mirror” Released October 27 [Brooklyn Vegan]
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Norwegian Sleep-Poppers Kings of Convenience Announce Third LP, Declaration of Dep-yawn-endence; Released October 20 [Billboard]
M83’s Anthony Gonzales Slaps A Dude On The Head Because Said Dude Didn’t Love Dancing Enough…And Apologizes For It [Brooklyn Vegan]
Daft Punk Will Provide Music To Tron: Legacy — Apparently Made Decision Over Pancake Breakfast, Which Proves Theory That Robots Love Pancakes [Idolator]
Stream First Official Track Off Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3 (Spoiler: Kills It.) [Spin]
Brooklyn D.I.Y. Venue / Unbearable Sweat Warehouse The Market Hotel Gets Air Conditioning; Fans of Relative Comfort Overjoyed [Brooklyn Vegan]
Thom Yorke and Bon Iver Write Song For Twilight Sequel New Moon…I Tearfully Ask Why? [Spin]
Raekwon, Ghostface, RZA and Method Man Announce Non-Wu Album Together; GZA and Master Killah Feel Left Out, Inspectah Deck Understands, But Wishes They Would’ve Called [NME]
Possibly The Largest Gathering of Slowly-Growing-Irrelevant Classic Rockers (Simon and Garfunkle, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Eric Clapton) Come Together For Rock Hall of Fame Show At Madison Square Garden [Brooklyn Vegan]
Brooklyn’s Pains of Being Pure At Heart Announce Two New Releases: “Come Saturday” Single Due Out September 8; Higher Than Stars EP Due Out September 22 [The Tripwire]
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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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