Watch New Video From the Twilight Sad for “Seven Years of Letters,” In Which the Band Commits a Fairly Grizzly Murder, Which I’m Not Convinced Is Entirely Fictional. Remember When the Band Was Robbed a Few Weeks Back? Could Be Revenge; Just Sayin’ [Pitchfork]
Jason Molina Feeling Worse Than Usual, Cancels Tour With Will Johnson (Which Was Supposed to Promote Their Album Together, Descriptively Titled Molina & Johnson…Now How Will Anyone Know About It? Even Molina’s Extremely Outdated Fan Site Has Nothing to Say About the Album) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls Covering the Chantels’ “He’s Gone,” Which is No More or Less Bubbly Than One Would Initially Expect [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Lily Allen Quitting Music For Two Years After Returning to Music After Quitting Music After Quitting Twitter After Threatening to Quit Music After Starting a Blog About Not Wanting to Do Music if People are Going to Steal Her Music; Elsewhere, I Just Downloaded a Ton of Lily Allen Illegally…Listening Party at My Place [Idolator]
Stream New Shearwater Song, “Castaways,” Which is Painfully Boring, and Much Too Vibrato-ed, Even For a Shearwater Track (But Does Feature a Daintily Keyed Piano…It’s Really Cute!); The Golden Archipelago Released February 23 [Stereogum]
Scott Kannberg, AKA Pavement’s Spiral Stairs, Negates His Own Statement That Pavement Would Never Record Another Song, Claims that New Songs Inevitable if Band Chemistry is Good; Chemical Composition of Pavement Unclear…Most Likely Includes Carbon [The Age]
Smiths Guitarist/Indie Vagabond Johnny Marr to Write Score for Film Starring Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg About Strippers; With a Cast Like That, How Could the Film Be Worse Than the Cribs’ Last Album? [NME]
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L.A. Fuzzy Girl Pop Band Dum Dum Girls Announce Debut LP, I Will Be; Released March 30 (And Features a Track Called “Bhang Bhang, I’m a Burnout” – Who Wouldn’t Be Psyched on That) [Pitchfork]
Billboard Says New Arcade Fire Album Due Out in May; Will Most Likely Feature Veiled References to Haiti, Religion, Family…Possibly Feature Inspiration From the Boss [Billboard]
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Governor’s Island Free Festival “Punk Island” Announces Line Up…Happening This Sunday! [Brooklyn Vegan]
Man Curses Keith Richards’s Impossibly Long Life on Death Bed [Idolator]
Athens, Georgia’s Georgia Theater Burns Down [Brooklyn Vegan]
Radiohead and Johnny Marr Contribute to The Sun Came Out Benefit [NME]
Islands Announce Follow-Up to Arm’s Way [Pitchfork]
Woman Charged $80,000 Per Downloaded Song By RIAA [Idolator]
Joy Division’s Classic Unknown Pleasures Celebrates 30th Birthday [Prefix]
Kelis Wants $20,000 a Month From Nas For Baby Expenses [Prefix]
Blur, Freshly Reunited, Writes New Material [Rolling Stone]
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October 2, 2008
The Smiths Release Greatest Hits Album
Call it a “best-of compilation” but what we’re really dealing with here is a Smiths Greatest Hits album.
On November 11, Rhino Records will be releasing The Sounds of the Smiths. The album is available as either a single or double disc: the first disc contains a chronological tracking of the band’s singles; the second disc features b-sides and live/alternate versions of some Smiths classics.
Both Morrissey and Johnny Marr were involved with choosing the songs on The Sounds of the Smiths, and Marr supervised the mastering.
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