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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Stream New Vampire Weekend Song, “Horchata” (Which, Yes Is a Traditionally Latin Seed-Based Beverage) – Let The Love/Hate/Casual Indifference Begin! Contra Released January 12, 2010 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch Mark Hoppus From Blink 182 Cut Fall Out Boy Frontman Pete Wentz’s Hair, In a Supposed “Death of Emo” Move; Elsewhere, Emo Dies, As Pete Wentz Was Last Human Being Alive to Still Have That Awful Haircut…Emotion Somehow Continues Existence [NME]
Brooklyn’s In The Tube-d Psych Rockers, Suckers – Who Released One of My Top 5 Singles of This Year – Sign To Gigantic; Announce Debut LP [Pitchfork]
Stream Excellent New Track From Brooklyn Slumber-Rockers Bear In Heaven, “Dust Cloud;” Their Debut Beast Rest Forth Mouth Released October 13 [Stereogum]
Method Man Turns Himself Over To Island District Attorney For Owing $37,799 In Back Taxes; Allegedly Repeatedly Told D.A. To “Shut the Fuck Up,” As D.A. Continued Denying Having Heard Him, And Encouraged Meth To Repeat His Statement In a Louder Tone [Idolator]
Stream New Glitched-Out Single From South Carolina’s Toro y Moi “Blessa,” Which May Be Glitchy Enough To Produce Actual Seizures, and Kind of Sounds Like He’s Just Turning The Volume Up and Down Like an Eight-Year Old [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Philly Tribal Indie Duo Pattern is Movement And Members of the Roots Cover D’Angelo’s “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” (Yeah, That One Where D’Angelo Is Completely Naked); Luckily, These Guys Chose to Keep Clothes On [Pitchfork]
Stream New Frightened Rabbit (The Scottish Emo Band That Isn’t the Twilight Sad) Song, “Swim Until You Can’t See Land;” Song Instructions Are Impossible For Anyone Who Lives On Mainland United States, Frightened Rabbit Found Alienating [FatCat]
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Madonna’s Stage Collapses In Marseille; 1 Dead, 7 Injured [Billboard]
The Guggenheim Museum (This Big Twirly Building) Puts On “It Came From Brooklyn” Concert Series; First Show Features The Walkmen and High Places [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream War On Drugs’ Frontman Kurt Vile’s New Single “Overnite Religion”; New LP Childish Prodigy Released October [Matador]
Paul McCartney Plays On Top of David Letterman’s Marquee – Forgive Him The Relationship With Starbucks, And Wings’ Whole Catalogue, Because This Is Pretty Cool [Idolator]
Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, and Dudes From Panic! At the Disco and Gym Class Heroes Debut Coke Sponsored Video/Single That Looks Ripped From Shark Boy and Lava Girl [Idolator]
The Hills’ Spencer Pratt Announces Rap Career; Spin Conducts Interview That Simultaneously Enrages, Confuses, and Destroys Mind [Spin]
Nick Cave and Bad Seed Warren Ellis Release Two-Disc Anthology Of Their Film Scores [Pitchfork]
LA’s Spaz-Punks The Mae Shi Breaks Apart Into New Mae Shi And A New Band Called Signals [Pitchfork]
Stream Yet Another New Modest Mouse Song, “History Sticks to Your Feet” – This Time It’s Electro (And Boring) [Pitchfork]
Calvin Johnson’s K Records (Home of The Microphones & Mirah) Announces Sleepover At Helsing Junction in Washington…Which Again Proves K To Be Most Adorable Label Ever [Tiny Mix Tapes]
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