The Second Annual Beatles Complete Ukulele Festival Will Take Place on December 5 and 6 in Williamsburg; Every Beatles Song Will Be Played on the Ukulele…And All Money Goes to Yoko Ono (Last Year, It Went to Warren Buffet); All Reading This Ought Be As Confused As I Am [Jezebel Music]
Stream a Re-Recording of Wavvves Cut “To the Dregs,” and a New Wavves Song “Horse Sholes” – Have an Existential Crisis Over the Fact that You Don’t Really Hate Wavves Anymore, As Zach Hill Brings Much-Needed Chops to the Project; Feel Dejected; Claim to Hate Wavves Anyway [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Brooklyn Over-Hyped But Endlessly Catchy Dance-Pop Duo MGMT Title Upcoming LP Congratulations, As In: Congratulations, MGMT, You’ve Succeeded in Making a Typically Boring Album Title [Pitchfork]
Watch The Flaming Lips Cover Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse;” You Decide What’s More Entertaining: The Cover, or Wayne Coyne’s Self-Absorbed, Convinced-He’s-Funny Babbling [Stereogum]
Cash Money Records Says Lil Wayne Will Release Two Albums Before The End of 2009; The Rebirth, The Much-Delayed Weezy-Goes-Rock Album, and Tha Carter 4, The Follow-Up to Wayne’s Lauded 2008 Offering…My Guess: Neither Will Come Out and I Just Wasted Time Writing These Sentences [Pitchfork]
Beyonce Cancels a Show in Malaysia Due to Malaysia’s Islamic Conservative Party’s Concerns That She Might Promote “Western Sexy Performances;” I’m Outraged Over Use of the Word “Might” in That Sentence. All The Woman Does is Western Sexy Performances [Billboard]
U2 Frontman Bono Believes President Obama is Having Difficult Time, Realizes the Harsh Reactions Obama Faced When Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Doesn’t Know No One Gives a Shit About His Political Opinions, and Just Wants Him to Sing “With or Without You” In Front of Some Starving Kids [Idolator]
Watch Spike Jonze’s New Short Film Starring Kanye West, We Were Once a Fairytale; Features Kanye Being Hilariously Douche-y, Getting Really Drunk, And Then Vomiting Rose Petals With This Little Monster…So It’s Just Like the Real Kanye [NME]
No Age, Rain Machine (TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone), Mew, and Jay Reatard All Opening for Pixies Doolittle Shows; Universal Agreement Made That This Concert Will Be “Very Good” (Alternatively, “Beyond Satisfactory”) [CMJ]
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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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Annual New York Music Film Extravaganza CMJ Announces Initial Line-Up: Atlas Sound, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and The Antlers All Confirmed (Man, I Wish That Was Just One Showcase); CMJ Runs October 20-24 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Black Eyed Peas Set New Record For Most Consecutive Weeks As Number One Single; Music Fans Confused As To Who Exactly Has Been Listening To The Black Eyed Peas [NME]
German Electronic Pioneers Kraftwerk To Release Epic 8-Disc Box Set, With Not So Epic 8-Bit Artwork [Pitchfork]
Michael Jackson’s Doctor And Dermatologist To Be Charged With Manslaughter According To…Err…Fox News? [NME]
Patrick Wolf Apologizes For Stage Freakout; More Importantly, Video Of Freakout Remains Mildly Humorous [Pitchfork]
Stream Danish Shoegazers Mew’s New Album, No More Stories…, (Just a Little) Early; Released August 24 [NME]
Banned And Unflattering 1972 Rolling Stones Documentary Cocksucker Blues Streaming On Internet – See Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Come Off As Assholes BEFORE That Was Obvious Upon Seconds of Exposure! [Prefix]
Southern Rap Pioneers OutKast’s Big Boi Announces New Solo LP, Sir Luscious Leftfoot: Son of Chico Dusty (Uhh..Awesome); Will Be Released “In A Few Months” [The Tripwire]
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