Jay Reatard To Play Solely Free Record Store Shows on August Tour. (I Don’t Like That He’s Only Playing the West Coast, The Old Folks Don’t Like Him Period) [Pitchfork]
Yargh! One Third Of Us Be Pirates, Research Says [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Melted Barbie Dolls? I Love It. Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Short Film Snakesweat [The Tripwire]
Panic! At the Disco Announces Two New Members [Rolling Stone]
The Soft Pack To Tour This Fall, Hit Bowery Ballroom October 2, and Now I Am “Beside Myself!” [NME]
Drake Gets His Own Sitcom: “about best buddies – and polar opposites – trying to make their way in the entertainment industry.” Original. [Idolator]
What Does It Sound Like When 7 Worlds Collide? Well, Two Parts Radiohead, One Part Wilco…Just Check Out This Supergroup [Stereogum]
Yes, We Know Who You Are. Check Out “Do You Know Who I Am,” The First Available Track From Echo & The Bunnymen’s New Album [Stereogum]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
Pixies Confirm Dates For U.S. Doolittle Tour!!! [Tiny Mix Tapes]
The Mountain Goats Get All Biblical On Us With “Genesis 3:23” [Prefix]
Check Out Schedule For Wavves’ Massive Fall Tour [Pitchfork]
Sidewalk Café’s Antifolk Festival Coming Up (Aug 7 - 16) Featuring, Among Others, Our Favorite G Train Busker! [Brooklyn Vegan]
Fiery Furnaces Cover Fiery Furnaces, and So Can You [Pitchfork]
“Todd P Goes To Austin” Documentary Premiers At The Delancey Tonight [FREEwilliamsburg]
Former Panic! At The Disco Members Get a Name (The Young Veins), a Myspace, and a Single, “Change,” Therefore Officially Exist [Idolator]
Monsters of Folk NYC Tickets Now On Presale [Brooklyn Vegan]
Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys Binges On Sugar, “Goes Mental” In Order to Write Song for Kids’ TV Show “Yo Gabba Gabba” [NME]
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Madonna’s Stage Collapses In Marseille; 1 Dead, 7 Injured [Billboard]
The Guggenheim Museum (This Big Twirly Building) Puts On “It Came From Brooklyn” Concert Series; First Show Features The Walkmen and High Places [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream War On Drugs’ Frontman Kurt Vile’s New Single “Overnite Religion”; New LP Childish Prodigy Released October [Matador]
Paul McCartney Plays On Top of David Letterman’s Marquee – Forgive Him The Relationship With Starbucks, And Wings’ Whole Catalogue, Because This Is Pretty Cool [Idolator]
Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, and Dudes From Panic! At the Disco and Gym Class Heroes Debut Coke Sponsored Video/Single That Looks Ripped From Shark Boy and Lava Girl [Idolator]
The Hills’ Spencer Pratt Announces Rap Career; Spin Conducts Interview That Simultaneously Enrages, Confuses, and Destroys Mind [Spin]
Nick Cave and Bad Seed Warren Ellis Release Two-Disc Anthology Of Their Film Scores [Pitchfork]
LA’s Spaz-Punks The Mae Shi Breaks Apart Into New Mae Shi And A New Band Called Signals [Pitchfork]
Stream Yet Another New Modest Mouse Song, “History Sticks to Your Feet” – This Time It’s Electro (And Boring) [Pitchfork]
Calvin Johnson’s K Records (Home of The Microphones & Mirah) Announces Sleepover At Helsing Junction in Washington…Which Again Proves K To Be Most Adorable Label Ever [Tiny Mix Tapes]
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Weekly Review
For the small number of you not out at the first official Pool Party of the summer (or for the many of you waiting in the forever-long line with your iPhones and nothing to do), here’s a wrap-up of this week’s music news…
At the local level: 2009 Summer Park Jams (already underway) and Siren Festival (taking place next weekend), schedules finalized. Both promise to be rollicking good, sweaty summer times. Also, Sufjan (Brooklyn resident) reworking Enjoy Your Rabbit for the Brooklyn quartet Osso. Resulting LP will be called Run Rabbit Run.
At the state level: Shellac, Crystal Castles, and Sufjan (crossing local-state boundaries), have been added to All Tomorrow’s Parties lineup. Will take place from September 11th-13th in Monticello, NY.
At the national level, in order of importance: Foo Fighters played 4th of July party last Sunday for Obama, debuted new song; NIN has announced lineup of final shows; and Panic at the Disco now (again) Panic! At the Disco.
At the international level, Leonard Cohen has enforced strict no-more-“Hallelujah”-cover policy. And, the only piece of news to reach an intergalactic level, David Bowie will release new EP this month, featuring “Space Oddity,” to celebrate the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon.
by Elana Jacobs
Nas Writing New Album; Claims Hip-Hop Has Responsibility To “Keep Shit Crunchy” [Billboard]
Jay Reatard Thinks Pains of Being Pure at Heart is Boring and Therefore Hates Entirety of Brooklyn [Brooklyn Vegan]
Bring a Can of Squirt and See Girl Talk For Free (Wait, They Still Make Squirt?) [Pitchfork]
Nine Inch Nails’ Final Tour Announced – Four Confirmed New York Dates in August [Brooklyn Vegan]
Most Banal News Story of the Day: Panic at the Disco Re-Rename Themselves Panic! At the Disco [Idolator]
Scottland’s The Swell Season Record Announce New Album The Strict Joy [Spin]
Shellac(!), Crystal Castles(!), and Sufjan Stevens (!!!!) Added to All Tomorrow’s Parties New York [Brooklyn Vegan]
Leonard Cohen Feels “Hallelujah” Has Been Covered Too Many Times; Meanwhile, Some Highschooler Covers “Hallelujah” For Girlfriend [NME]Leon
Dinosaur Jr.’s Farm Recalled For Rocking Too Hard; Causing Deafness [Pitchfork]
Jay-Z Possibly To Release Book of Lyrical Explanations [Prefix]
Madonna Performs With Sunn O)); Picture is Unbelievably Awesome [Tripwire]
compiled by Max Sebela
