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]
compiled by Max Sebela
