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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Stream Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Frontwoman Karen O’s First Single Off Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack – Features A Huge Children’s Sing-Along (Though, Those Kids Don’t Compete With Ryan Gosling’s) [MySpace]
Cult Singer-Songwriter Daniel Johnston Readies His First Album In Six Years Is And Always Was; Released October 6 (Get A First Listen Here) [Pitchfork]
Watch Brooklyn Electro-Pop Duo MGMT Discuss Their Upcoming Album Congratulations; For Up And Coming Pop Giants, These Guys Are Way Boring [NME]
Unheard Recordings By Folk Legend Woody Guthrie To Be Released As 4-Disc Boxed Set, My Dusty Road; Released August 25 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Brooklyn Lo-Fi Softies Times New Viking Announce New Album Born Again Revisited (Stream First Single, “Move to California”); Released September 22 [Prefix]
Watch Radiohead Premiere Their (Free) New Single “These Are My Twisted Words” Live…Is It Just Me, Or Does Thom Yorke Dance A Lot Like The Peanuts Gang? [Pitchfork]
50 Cent Announces New Album Before I Self-Destruct Will Be Released in November; Packaged With His Directorial/Screenwriting Debut…Also, 50 Seems Unsure of What Music He Enjoys [Prefix]
Stream Battles Weirdo Tyondai Braxton’s Second Solo Single, “Platinum Rows” (It Sounds Like A Charlie Chaplin Film Soundtracked By A Speed Addict); Braxton’s Debut LP Central Market Released September 15 [Pitchfork]
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Now a Monster of Folk, Conor Oberst Says Goodbye to Bright Eyes with Final LP [Prefix]
Leonard Cohen Announces Fall US Tour, Playing MSG [Pitchfork]
Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 to Feature MGMT, Inexplicably [Stereogum]
Stream New Times New Viking Track — Now with More Tape Hiss! [The Tripwire]
Modest Mouse Set August 4th Release Date for Long Awaited Odds-and-Ends EP [Pitchfork]
Os Mutantes to Release First Album in 35 Years on ANTI- [BrooklynVegan]
Yo La Tengo Announce Fall Tour, NYC Date with Black Lips [Prefix]
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Because When I Think Modest Mouse, I Think New Orleans Honky Tonk (Stream Modest Mouse’s New Single “Perpetual Motion Machine” To Understand) [Spin]
Stream Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold Covering Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Two Headed Boy” [Chocolate Bobka]
Post-Punk Legends Mission of Burma Announce New LP The Sound, The Speed, The Light; Released October 6 [Matablog]
Last Night May Have Been Blur’s Last Reunion Show (Blur Needs to Stop Making Reunited/Broken Up Headlines…They’re Like the Brett Farvre of Music) [Prefix]
Lady Gaga Makes Chart History, Scoring Three Number One Singles Off One Album; Joins Fellow History Makers Avril Lavigne (Ha!) and Ace of Base (Ha Ha!) [Billboard]
Christian Screamo Outfit Confide Make What May Possibly Be the Most Ridiculous Cover/Video of 2009 Thus Far (Spoiler: It’s a Postal Service Cover) [Idolator]
According to Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan Has Earned Right to Keep Using The Smashing Pumpkins Name Sans Any Other Original Pumpkins, Because All Other Members Irrelevant [NME]
Weezer Covers Lady Gaga and MGMT…Begins Set With Shout Of “Let’s Get Our Groove On”…Starting to Look Like a State Fair Headliner. [The Tripwire]
Chicago Producer/Musician/Artiste Jim O’Roure Announces New LP The Visitor; Released September 8 [Pitchfork]
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Janet Jackson and Michael’s Brothers May Do Tribute Tour [Billboard]
Historic Lower East Side Punk Collective “ABC No Rio” Gets a Ton of Government Money! Wait…Isn’t That Not Punk? [NYTimes]
Erykah Badu and the Roots Lay Down Quick Cover of Jackson’s “I Wanna Be Where You Are”; Stream It! [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Jay Z Debuts Official “Death of Auto-Tune” Video; Co-Starring LeBron James and Harvey Keitel Getting Hova-ed [Spin]
Pixies To Play All of Seminal Album Doolittle on Tour…Pixies Fans “Gone to Heaven” [NME]
Springsteen Opens With Clash’s “London Calling” At Glastonbury Festival [NME]
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon to Release Between My Head and the Sky as Plastic Ono Band [Pitchfork]
Slayer Announces Typically-Bad-Ass-Named Album World Painted Blood [Billboard]
MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O Guest on Flaming Lips’ Upcoming Embryonic [Pitchfork]
Stream Scotland’s Twlight Sad’s New Single “I Became a Prostitute” [MySpace]
Neil Young and Paul McCartney Play Sgt. Pepper’s “A Day in the Life” at Glastonbury [The Tripwire]
San Francisco’s Recently In the Tube-d Girls Sign to Matador [Tiny Mix Tapes]
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Judge Grants Juror Glastonbury Leave [NME]
Yeasayer to Tour North America, Hit New York on 8/13 [Prefix]
Timbaland to Score, Zac Efron to Star in Cowell’s Rendition of Saturday Night Fever [NME]
Bicycle Film Festival Kicks Off w/ FREE Show Featuring Jon Spencer Blues Explosion & The Teenagers [Brooklyn Vegan]
Hip-Hop Artists Sick of “Old Ass Jay-Z Hating” on Auto-Tune [Prefix]
Built to Spill to Release New LP in October [Pitchfork]
Paul McCartney Waiting for a Phone Call from MGMT [NME]
Radiohead Selling Second In Rainbows CD [Pitchfork]
“Zack Morris” Performs “Zack Attack” Backed by The Roots [Videogum]
More Big Acts Cutting Ticket Prices [NME]
Stop Laughing At, Start Feeling Bad About Michaels’s Faceplant [The Tripwire]
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Blues Artist Koko Taylor Passes Away [NY Times]
Modest Mouse to Release Limited Edition 7” [The Tripwire]
Jane’s Addiction Offering “Living Room” Sets On Current Tour [NME]
AC/DC on Your Converse! [Prefix]
Afro-Punk Invades Brooklyn [Brooklyn Vegan]
Brilliant Words from Ghostface Killah [Prefix]
Brittney Paying Federline to be a…um, Father? [NME]
The (MGMT) Video Everyone’s Blogging About Today [The Tripwire]
Jay-Z Sets Blueprint Release Date [Billboard]
First Single From Yo La Tengo’s Newly Announced Album [Prefix]
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Williamsburg Music Scene Massacre! (On Law and Order: Criminal Intent) [Prefix]
MGMT Forgives the French [NME]
Imogen Heap Gives Preview Performance in Gramercy Park Hotel [SPIN]
Mika Miko’s Kate Hall Directs New Deerhoof Video [The Tripwire]
New Passion Pit “Moth’s Wings” MP3 [Prefix]
Creed’s Comeback [Rolling Stone]
Vampire Weekend Hard at Work on New LP [Pitchfork]
Hulu Ousting YouTube? [The Tripwire]
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