Kele Okereke, Frontman of UK Post-Punk Outfit Bloc Party, Currently on a Hiatus (Read: Washed Up), Announces Solo Album…Working With Spank Rock – This Honestly Sounds Like My Own Personal Musical Hell [NME]
Stream New Spoon, “The Mystery Zone,” Which Sounds Literally Like Every Other Spoon Song Ever Written…But Still, Stream It Anyway, Because I’m Probably Going to Have to Take it Down in 5 Minutes. RIAA is Outside; Transference Released January 26 [Indiescreet]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Are Playing a Secret Show in NYC this Weekend Celebrating the New Droid Phone; If You Buy a Droid, You Get a Free Ticket…So It’s Like Paying $200 to See the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Plus a Data Plan; Data Costs a Lot) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Jack White’s Third Man Records is Releasing a 7-Inch Celebrating the Late Astronomer/Host of Cosmos/Generally Awesome Dude Carl Sagan, With a Guest Verse from Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking; Stream It Here [Youtube]
Stream Julian Casablancas’s Recording of the SNL Classic “I Wish It Was Christmas Today;” Better Yet, Do Yourself a Favor and Wait Until December 25 to Listen to it, Only So That You Can Actively Disagree With Julian Casablancas About Something [Myspace]
Four Tet Announces New Album, There Is Love in You; Stream First Single, “Love Cry” Here – Is This a Return to Form For Kieran Hebden? (No…No, Still Not Quite); Released January 26 [Pitchfork]
Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus Suggests People Listen to Canadian Pitchfork Darlings Japandroids; Claims to Have Been Suggested Band By His Barber…Actually Just Admitting to Reading Pitchfork (Congratulations, Mark, Welcome to Modern Music) [Spin]
Stream Fred Falke Remix of Possibly the Hottest Summer Jam of 2009, Music Go Music’s “Warm in the Shadows;” Fred Falke Forgets That, Though Track is Hot, the Weather is Not [Gorilla vs. Bear]
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Jay Z and Alicia Keys Delay Performance of “Empire State of Mind” at Yankees/Phillies World Series To Thursday; Jay Set to Censor “Empire” For the Performance, Meaning All Uses of “Shit” Will Hopefully Get Changed to “Shoot,” “Poop,” or “Barnacles” [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch Superchunk Frontman/Merge Records Founder Mac McCaughan Cover Merge Artists Spoon and the Magnetic Fields; He’s Playing “Come Back From San Francisco” Which Is One of the Loveliest of the 69 Love Songs [Spin]
Download Brand New Lil Wayne Mixtape No Ceiling Right Now; Man, The Next Weezy Mixtape May Be Live Mixed From Prison. Possible Prison Titles “Robitussin Prison Blues,” “Me and T.I. Out in the Stockyard,” “My Daddy (Remix)” [Nah Right]
Watch Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas Sing/Laugh/Be Merry/Look Creepy During a Tonight Show Performance of “11th Dimension;” Upcoming LP Phrazes for the Young Released November 3 [Prefix]
Stream Swedish Duo Air France’s Remix of St. Etienne’s “Spring;” It’s Light and Organic, Unlike Most of Air France’s Material, Which Sounds Almost Directly Ripped From the Soundtrack of Sega’s Sonic Adventure [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Video For Basement Jaxx’s “My Turn,” Which Makes Heavy Use of One of the Most Underrepresented Figures in Nature/Pop Culture: Bears With Swords [Stereogum]
Norwegian DJ Extraordinaire Lindstrøm To Record 40 Minute Version of the “Little Drummer Boy”; Elsewhere, I Pull Out My “List of Things I Really Don’t Need” And Add a 40 Minute Version of “Little Drummer Boy” [Pitchfork]
Watch Brooklynites Real Estate Jam Through a Bunch of Tracks in Uncomfortably Close Quarters in the Tripwire’s Studio; Imagine That it Must Not Smell So Good in that Studio [The Tripwire]
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Pavement Adds Fourth Show To New York’s Central Park Summerstage 2010; Stephen Malkmus Unaware That By “World Tour,” Matador Expects Them To Leave Central Park [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch Depraved Web Series Namaste! From anticon.’s Much-Beloved Why?; Why’s Upcoming LP Eskimo Snow Released September 22 [anticon.]
Stream Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas’s New Synthy (Read: Not Really Worth Listening To) Song “11th Dimension”; Casablancas’s Debut LP Phrazes of the Young Released October 20 [Myspace]
British Art Dance Cutie Goldfrapp To Score Upcoming John Lennon Biopic Nowhere Boy — This Is Cool, But Confusing [Pitchfork]
Lego Iggy Pop to Star in Lego Rock Band; Watch Lego Pop Fall Into Lego Herion, Get Picked Up By Lego David Bowie, And Redefine His Lego Career Through A Lego Series of Lego Albums and Accomplishments [Idolator]
Stream to Pearl Jam’s New Album Backspacer A Couple Days Early…Or Don’t. I Probably Wouldn’t. Backspacer Released September 20 [Spin]
Andrew W.K. To Tour With Calder String Quartet; Shouts of “LETS GET THIS CRECENDO STARTED” Heard From Miles Away; Meanwhile, Quartet Unconditioned To Partying Quite So Much – All Report Hangovers, Immense Fun [CMJ]
Watch New Thom Yorke Video For “All For The Best,” Off The Upcoming Mark Mulcahy Tribute, Ciao My Shining Star; Ciao Released September 29 [Pitchfork]
Insane Clown Posse Fans (Popularly Called Juggalos – Find Them In The Faygo Aisle of Your Local Walgreens) and Slipknot Fans (Called Maggots – Find Them Looking Through Jack Skelington Coffee Mugs At Your Nearest Hot Topic) Don’t Get Along [Prefix]
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Strokes Singer Julian Casablancas To Sing About Ludlow Street on Solo Album [SPIN]
Check Out the IFC Music Movie Nights: “Film and the Folk/Punk Connection” [The Tripwire]
Today’s Piece of Bizarre News: Harry Potter’s Emma Watson to Star in Marilyn Manson Musical [IMDb]
One Week Only! The Dodos Streaming New Album, Time To Die, Online [NME]
The Dead Weather Playing at Jack White’s Third Man Record Store This Thursday in NYC [Prefix]
Wavves Broke His Wrist Skateboarding, But Still Playing Skateboard Benefit Show [Brooklyn Vegan]
New York Times Company Sells Radio Station WQXR to WNYC Radio [New York Times]
Black Keys Drummer Goes For The Obvious, Starts Side Project Called Drummer [Tiny Mix Tapes]
EMI Cutting Costs, Cutting Off Independent Record Stores [Prefix]
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