Watch The Pixies Play “Hey” and “Monkey Gone to Heaven” on First Night of Playing Doolittle In Its Entirety – For Doolittle They Are Certainly DO-ing A Lot…Cough (I Am So Sorry); They Play New York November 23rd and 24th [Spin]
Kanye West and Lady Gaga Officially Cancel “Fame Kills” Tour; Somehow, Life Manages To Go On Smoothly [Idolator]
Irish 90s Girl-Mopers The Cranberries Reunite (Coming To a Raisin Bran Near You); Announce New York Date November 17th At Nokia Theater [Brooklyn Vegan]
Sufjan Stevens To Record Instrumental Album For Asthmatic Kitty’s Library Catalog With The National’s Bryce Dessner – Seriously, Who is This Sufjan Guy, and Why is He Making Headlines Every Fucking Day? Will Someone Just Shut Him Up?! (I’m Sorry Mr. Stevens, Please Don’t Go Away Again…We…We Love You) [Pitchfork]
Conservative Pundit Glenn Beck Praises Muse; Muse Asks Glenn Beck To Stop Praising Them…Listen Here; Elsewhere, Did You Hear What Glenn Beck May or May Not Have Done? [Stereogum]
Watch Jack White’s New Dead Weather Video For Horsehound Track “I Cut Like a Buffalo;” Instead of Watching This Video, I Analyzed How Much White Looks Like Willy Wonka in Its Still Frame [Spin]
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The Wrens (That “Legendary” Jersey Emo-Punk Band Who Have Managed Legendary Status By Only Releasing Three Records Over 20 Years) To Play 2002’s The Meadowlands From Start to Finish; Elsewhere, The Wrens Probably Aren’t Releasing Anything Until Like 2016 [Brooklyn Vegan]
As Much As I Don’t Like 50 Cent, The Album Cover to Before I Self Destruct Is Fucking Awesome, and Makes a Good Case For 50 Taking Up Arnold’s Role in the Next Train Wreck Terminator Sequel [Idolator]
Watch Bruce Springsteen Debut New Song, “Wrecking Ball” At Giants Stadium; Going Against All Odds, Springsteen Surprises Fans By Writing a Song About Life in New Jersey….WHAAAAA? [Spin]
Fatboy Slim Announces Sideproject With David Byrne, Martha Wainwright, and…Cyndi Lauper?; Here Lies Love (Apparenty A Concept Album About Former First Lady of the Phillipines…To Whom None of the Above Most Likely Have Any Connection, Especially Lauper) Released Sometime in 2010 [NME]
Stream Another New Devendra Banhart Song, “Angelika;” Sounds Like a Donovan Song, Suddenly Overtaken By Buena Vista Social Club, Which is Not As Awesome As It Sounds; What Will We Be Released October 27 [Pitchfork]
Kanye West’s and Lady’s Gaga’s Fame Kills Tour MAY Be Cancelled ALLEGEDLY Due to RUMORS that Kanye POSSIBLY Is Checking Into Rehab For HYPOTHETICAL Alcoholism; In Other News, This Is An Unsubstantiated Rumor [Prefix]
The Compact Disc Celebrates Its 27th Birthday; Like Many 27 Year Olds, The CD Will Be Mourning Its Seemingly Imminent Death By Looking At More Youthful Versions of Itself Online (Hopefully Via Lala…What a Great Service) [Idolator]
Stream Animal Collective’s Remix of Phoenix’s “Love Like a Sunset” – Tribal, Glitchy, Airy; How Does Animal Collective Manage To Make Every Song They Remix Sound Like ANY Animal Collective Song? [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch New Black Lips Video For 200 Million Thousand Cut “Let It Grow;” Starts Pretty Normal, Buffalo 66 Style…Ends With a Lot of Aliens, And Slightly Necrophilia-Centric Images [Stereogum]
The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay To Release a Collection of Short Stories, Entitled Complicated Gardening Techniques In January; I Make Vow To Report Any Hold Steady News No Matter How Seemingly Insignificant [Pitchfork]
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Devastatingly Earnest Punk Rocker Ted Leo Signs To Matador; Announces It Via Devastatingly Earnest Blog Post ; New Ted Leo Album Due Out “Sometime In the Coming Spring” – Chances Are It Will Be Devastatingly Earnest [Brooklyn Vegan]
Justin Timberlake Set to Star As Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker in The Social Network, A Movie About The History of Social Networks…In a Post-Modern Twist, Since Justin Timberlake’s Music Was Downloaded On Napster, His Character May Have To Mention Downloading N*Sync Tracks; Brains Hurt [NME]
Kanye West and Lady Gaga Release Teaser Video For Upcoming “Fame Kills” Tour; Features What Looks Like Kanyes Hand Doing Unspeakable Things To Lady Gaga (Yeah, It is a Must-View) [Pitchfork]
Watch Video For Danish Rockers Mew’s “Repeaterbeater” – It’s Uhh…Really Weird (But It’s Got Ghosts! And Air Guitar!); No More Stories In Stores Now [Prefix]
Stream “Bad Lover,” A New Track From (REALLY REALLY GOOD) Brooklyn Duo Small Black (Did I Mention They Are Like…REALLY REALLY GOOD?); Small Black EP Released October 13 [Stereogum]
Philadelphia Dream Pop Act Sunny Day in Glasgow Looking For Another Singer, Even Though From the Sounds of Their Albums, They Already Have 30; Ashes Grammar In Stores Now [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Ben Gibbard’s and Son Volt Frontman Jay Farrar’s Collaboration, “These Roads Don’t Move,” Supposedly Based on Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur; Search For Kerouac References, Realize There Are None, And Accept That It’s Just a Twangy Death Cab Song [NPR]
Watch Trailer For Some Days are Better than Others, Starring Shins Frontman James Mercer and Sleater-Kinner Guitarist Carrie Brownstein; Better Yet, Watch This…It’ll Change Your Life, And Is Ostensibly The Same Thing [Pitchfork]
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced; Among the Crappy Ones (cough Kiss), Are The Stooges, Donna Summer, and Laura Nyro; If Red Hot Chili Peppers Are Inducted Before The Stooges, Rock and Roll Has Lost All Meaning [Spin]
Remember The Last 48 Hours, As You Had To Cope With T-Pain Giving Up Autotune? Well, Breathe Easy…And Then Proceed To Take Your Shirt Off (T-Pain Said So) [Nappy Boy Online]
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