Gibson Guitars Under Investigation by U.S. Police for Using “Illegal Wood” to Manufacture their Instruments; Remains Unclear Whether or Not this “Illegal Wood” Was Norwegian in Source (In Other News, Stream that Version of “Norwegian Wood,” It’s All in Pan Flute) [NME]
Brooklyn’s Small Black to Release Two Singles Over the Next Couple Months; I Use Small News Story to Plug My Review of Small Black’s Debut EP, Our Recent Interview With Small Black, and to Take One More Moment to Say Small Black is a Really Awesome Band [Pitchfork]
Formerly Elusive MC DOOM up to Old Tricks, Never Showing Up to a Concert in L.A., and Having a Doppleganger Fill on a Laptop…Watch the Depressing Footage Here. Depressed? Well, Check Out Doom’s Madvilliany 2 Snippets, and Remember that Most Hip-Hop Sucks Live, Anyway [Prefix]
Stream New Track, “Press Corps” From Canadian Garage Duo/2009 Blog Darlings Japandroids, Which Sounds Lifted from You’re Living All Over Me, and Merits (Most of) they Hype This Band Has Gotten [The Tripwire]
Watch Video for Indie Rock Legends Polvo’s “Right the Relation,” off their Recent Reunion Album In Prism — I’m Fairly Sure This Entire Creepy, Montage Video Is All an Enormous Reference to the Made For TV Adaptation of Stephen King’s It…Don’t Ask Me Why [Pitchfork]
The Roots and David Byrne Joined Dirty Projectors on Stage during their Fourth NYC Show on Sunday Night; Brooklyn Vegan Posts Great Pictures of it Here – Did ?uestlove and David Byrne Get Along Amicably? (Yes, Probably, Both are Pretty Good Guys, and Nothing Brings Dudes Together Like a Mutual Love of Funk) [Brooklyn Vegan]
U2 Set to Headline England’s 2010 Glastonbury Festival, the Biggest Music Festival in the World; I Make Early Prediction: 2010 Glastonbury Festival Will Be Boring, In Light of U2’s Music Being Performed [NME]
Stream Track From Cameron Stallones’ (of L.A. Noisemakers Pocahaunted) Sideproject PLATOON, Which Sounds Like The Doors Covering the N.W.O.’s Entrance Music (Obscure Wrestling Reference; Get Down With It) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
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Stream New Single From Brooklyn’s Own Psyched-Out Tearjerkers Suckers, “Save Your Love For Me,” Which I Continually Feel Is Going to Bust into a Warrant-esque Guitar Solo, With David Lee Roth Yowling Over It – Oh Wait, That’s Basically How it Ends [Pitchfork]
American Idol Runner Up Adam Lambert’s Album Cover May Be Worst Idea of All Time; Looks Like Brown Haired Version of 80s Cartoon Icon Jem; Jem Considers Suing For Identify Theft [Idolator]
Texas Quiet Rockers Midlake Announce Third Album; I Confuse Midlake With New Jersey Pop-Punk Outfit “Midtown”…Decide Midtown Should Announce New Album; The Courage of Others Released February 1 [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Almost Disturbingly Earnest Punk Ted Leo Run Through a Folk Rendition of New Jam, “One Polaroid a Day,” Which I Believe is Some Kind of Dated Hipster Reference (Polaroids Are Out; Carnival Caricatures, In (Make it Happen, Williamsburg)) [You Ain’t No Picasso]
Stream Snippets of the Long Anticipated Follow-Up to Madlib/DOOM Collaboration Madvilliany; I Usually Avoid Hyperbole, But “I Sip a Hot Tea Watchin Archie Flippin’ Meathead” Is the Best Line Ever Spoken in Hip-Hop [Pitchfork]
The Killers To Release Cover of the Eagles’ “Hotel California;” By Comparing Selves to the Eagles, Killers Determine Fate to Continue to Sell Massive Amounts of Music, and Be Despised for Generations to Come [NME]
Good Music Journalism Prevails! Jarvis Cocker Never Meant to Claim That Pulp Is Getting Back Together at Glastonbury…That’s Right, People, As Little Pulp at Glastonbury as There is In My Orange Juice [Idolator]
Watch Porn New, Extremely Naked Video For Girls Single “Lust for Life;” Less Arousing and More…Just, Really, Really NSFW (What Kind of Microphone is…Hey, Wait a Second. That’s Not a Microphone. Put That Down!) [Stereogum]
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Joe Satriani’s Lawsuit Against Coldplay, Claiming That “Viva La Vida” Had Ripped-Off “If I Could Fly” Dropped, Most Likely Due To Out of Court Settlement (Too Bad – Satriani v. Coldplay Could’ve Split As Many Lines As Roe v. Wade [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream “N/A,” A Track By Seattle Locals Naomi Punk, All Sung By Rwandan Children (Meanwhile, Ryan Gosling Feels He Loves Children More…But Not In That Way) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Stream a Piece of Sufjan Stevens’ Indie-Orchestra Suite The BQE, Entitled “Movement VI – Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges” (First Impression: Eh, It’s Not Tha — Oh! So Pretty!) [Asthmatic Kitty]
Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah Records Lewdest Song Possibly Ever Recorded; Watch Video (Read: Pornography); You’ve Been Dethroned, Three 6 Mafia, Your “Knobs” Will Be “Slobbed” No More [Videogum]
Stream New Times New Viking LP Born Again Revisited In Its Entirety; Released September 22 [Matablog]
San Francisco’s In the Tube-d Girls Announce Fall Tour; Album Released October 22 (And I Promise It’s Really, Really Good! Stream It Here!) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Masked Rapper DOOM, Formerly Known As MF DOOM, Announces Odds and Ends Compilation Unexpected Guests; Allegedly Working With TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek [Pitchfork]
Scarlett Johanson, Courtney Love, and U2 To Headline AIDS Benefit Concert At Carnegie Hall…(Not) More Importantly, Spin Calls The Trio “Music’s Biggest Stars;” Blows Last Vestige Street Cred [Spin]
New York’s Favorite Ivy-Leage Post-Afro-Poppers (New York Hates You, Chester French) Vampire Weekend Formerly Announce Sophomore Album Contra; Released January 12, 2010 [Spin]
Stream Jim James’, Conor Oberst’s, and M. Ward’s Supergroup Monsters of Folk’s Debut Self-Titled LP; Released October 22 [Stereogum]
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