Watch The Pixies Play “Hey” and “Monkey Gone to Heaven” on First Night of Playing Doolittle In Its Entirety – For Doolittle They Are Certainly DO-ing A Lot…Cough (I Am So Sorry); They Play New York November 23rd and 24th [Spin]
Kanye West and Lady Gaga Officially Cancel “Fame Kills” Tour; Somehow, Life Manages To Go On Smoothly [Idolator]
Irish 90s Girl-Mopers The Cranberries Reunite (Coming To a Raisin Bran Near You); Announce New York Date November 17th At Nokia Theater [Brooklyn Vegan]
Sufjan Stevens To Record Instrumental Album For Asthmatic Kitty’s Library Catalog With The National’s Bryce Dessner – Seriously, Who is This Sufjan Guy, and Why is He Making Headlines Every Fucking Day? Will Someone Just Shut Him Up?! (I’m Sorry Mr. Stevens, Please Don’t Go Away Again…We…We Love You) [Pitchfork]
Conservative Pundit Glenn Beck Praises Muse; Muse Asks Glenn Beck To Stop Praising Them…Listen Here; Elsewhere, Did You Hear What Glenn Beck May or May Not Have Done? [Stereogum]
Watch Jack White’s New Dead Weather Video For Horsehound Track “I Cut Like a Buffalo;” Instead of Watching This Video, I Analyzed How Much White Looks Like Willy Wonka in Its Still Frame [Spin]
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Stream First Song From TV on the Radio Frontman Kyp Malone’s Solo Project Rain Machine – First Impressions: Soulful and Very Bowie-Esque; Rain Machine Released September 22 [Brooklyn Vegan]
TLC To Play First Show In Seven Years In Vegas – Now, It’s Not So Much That I Don’t Want “No Scrubs;” I Just Can’t Fathom Anyone Using The Word “Scrub” (Definition: Guy Who Considers Self “Fly”) In 2009 [Idolator]
Jay Z Announces Plans To Play Massive 9/11 Benefit Show At Madison Square Garden [Spin]
British Rockers Muse Stream The Entirety Of Their Upcoming LP The Resistance (Only Catch: You Have To Register For Their Site); Released September 14 [NME]
Watch Bill O’Reilly Insult Jay Z On The O’Reilly Factor; Describes Jay As “A Regular Otis Redding” – Funny Enough, Jay Has Fused Rock, Hip-Hop, And Jazz Similarly To Redding’s Rock-Gospel Fusion, Making O’Reilly Sort Of…Right [Idolator]
Popular Lower East Side Venue The Annex Closing Down And Becoming A Sports Bar; This Writer Confused As To When There Became A Demand For Sports Bars On The Lower East Side [Brooklyn Vegan]
Bob Dylan Apparently In Talks To Become The Voice On Navigation Systems – Just What You Need In An Emergency: Dylan Leading You Nowhere Through A Series of Unconnected Allusions To A Jester [NME]
Stream Psych Poppers Islands’ New Song “Vapours” – It’s Weirdly Reminiscent of Ted Leo; Vapours Released September 22 [Pitchfork]
TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimbe To Appear As Vocalist On Trip-Hop Pioneers Massive Attack’s Upcoming EP, Splitting the Atom; Released October 5 [Pitchfork]
Guitar Hero 5 Lets Players Perform As Kurt Cobain (Well, At Least That’s The Only Dead, Drug Addicted Legend Appeari — Oh…Oh God, Really?) [Prefix]
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