Stream New Liars, “Scissor,” Which, For the First Two Minutes, Sounds Like Tom Waits Singing a Waltzed Cover of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and then Proceeds to Become a Speed Metal Track, Which is as Confusing, and Not Nearly as Great as It Should Be; Sisterworld Released March 9 [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Jeff Mangum, Indie Folk’s Howard Hughes, Emerges From Seclusion to Record Cover of Tall Dwarfs’ “Sign the Dotted Line” For a Chris Knox Charity Album (Stream 30-Second Sample); Mangum Most Likely Heavily Bearded, Pasty [Pitchfork]
Weezer Frontman Rivers Cuomo, Who Was in a Serious Bus Accident on Sunday, is Recovering Well; Elsewhere, Thousands of Bloggers Breathe Sigh of Relief After Making Slightly Morbid “Say it Ain’t So” Reference Toward the Accident Yesterday; I Instead Choose to Wonder Whether Any Muppets Will Visit Rivers in Hospital [Spin]
British Post-Punk Outfit The Horrors’ Primary Colours is Awarded NME’s Album of the Year, with The xx Taking Second Place; NME Stands Firm in Stance That Britain > U.S.A., Even Though U.S.A. > Britain in Revolutionary War [NME]
Apple Purchases Popular Streaming Media Site/Pitchfork’s Number One Main Squeeze Lala For $17 Million – All Who Purchased Music On Lala May Lose their Songs (But Not to Worry, It’s Mostly Just Copies of Owl City’s “Fireflies”) [Prefix]
Stream “The Old Graveyard” a Track From Gigi, a Canadian Duo Consisting of One of the Guys From No Kids, and Destroyer’s Producer – They Claim It’s Supposed to Sound Like Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound Stuff…I Think It Sounds Like an Olivia Tremor Control Cover Band, Which is a Good Thing; Debut LP Maintenant Released Early 2010 [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Wisconsin’s Eau Claire Memorial High School Jazz Band Announces Debut Album, A Decade With Duke; Released Today (And Cindy and Britney are So Excited that Justin Vernon is On the Album – He’s Like SUCH an Indie Heartthrob <333) [Pitchfork]
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New Jersey Punks Titus Andronicus Had a Really Miserable Time at the Vice Halloween Party (Headlined by Bad Brains and the Jesus Lizard) – Frontman Patrick Stickles Was Thrown on the Street for Dressing Like Ulysses S. Grant; More Importantly, Photos of Stickles as Grant Unavailable [Titus Andronicus]
Watch Gossip Girl Star Leighton Meester Perform Weezer’s “(If You’re Wondering if I Want You To) I Want You To;” “Did R.C. Sleep With L. After the Show? How Pissed Was C., When It Happened…Tune In to Find Out xoxo, Gossip Girl” [Spin]
New York Experimental Post Punk Blah Blah Liars Announce New Album, Sisterworld; Band Name Would Suggest That They Actually Did Not Announce New Album – Liars Definitively Untrustworthy [Pitchfork]
Lil Wayne and Birdman Getting Sued by Spoken Word Artist Thomas Marasciullo for Allegedly Sampling His Vocals Without Permission; Meanwhile, Wayne is Both Going to Jail, and Got Baked at Alec Baldwin’s Daughter’s Birthday Party (Yay Puns!) [NME]
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Heaven Can Wait” Featuring and Recorded With Beck; Gainsbourg’s Third Album IRM Released January (And It Sounds Like a Wes Anderson Soundtrack) [The Playlist]
Original Stooges Guitarist James Williamson To Rejoin The Stooges After Death of Ron Asheton [Spin]
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