Animal Collective’s New Film ODDSAC to Premiere At Sundance; My Guess There Will Be Few to No Animals Starring in Said Film (Unless You Count Panda Bear – He’s Super Cuddly) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
2010 Grammy Nominees Are Revealed, The Biggest Surprise In Which Being There Literally Are No Surprises (Except that The Fray is Apparently Still a Band) [Idolator]
Watch Phoenix Perform a Bunch of Songs in France for La Blogotheque; Elsewhere, Watch Various Blogs Plug these Videos of Phoenix Playing, Even Though La Blogotheque Posts Dozens of Takeaway Videos…Slow News Day For Everyone, Deal With It [La Blogotheque]
Kieran Hebden Has Been in the Middle of a Residency at London’s Plastic People, Which is Ending…To Commemorate Ending, He’s Giving Away a Free Four Tet Mixtape, Called Much Love to the Plastic People, Which Will Be Given to Some Tech-Savvy Raver, and Swiftly Leaked to the Web…Hoorah! [Prefix]
Stream New (And Extremely Depressing) Track From Portland’s Premiere Looping Ambient Artiste Eluvium, “The Motion Makes Me Last,” Which is As Cold and Barren As the Blizzard [Insert Year of Famous Local Blizzard Here] [Stereogum]
Lead Fleet Fox Robin Pecknold Talks About the Writing Process of the Next Fleet Foxes LP; Elsewhere…Remember That Band the Bravery? (That Band Who Wrote Shitty 2004 Post-Punk Revival Single “An Honest Mistake”?) Well…Here’s Them Performing a Baffling Cover of Fleet Foxes’ Adored 2008 Single “White Winter Hymnal” [Pitchfork]
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The Wrens (That “Legendary” Jersey Emo-Punk Band Who Have Managed Legendary Status By Only Releasing Three Records Over 20 Years) To Play 2002’s The Meadowlands From Start to Finish; Elsewhere, The Wrens Probably Aren’t Releasing Anything Until Like 2016 [Brooklyn Vegan]
As Much As I Don’t Like 50 Cent, The Album Cover to Before I Self Destruct Is Fucking Awesome, and Makes a Good Case For 50 Taking Up Arnold’s Role in the Next Train Wreck Terminator Sequel [Idolator]
Watch Bruce Springsteen Debut New Song, “Wrecking Ball” At Giants Stadium; Going Against All Odds, Springsteen Surprises Fans By Writing a Song About Life in New Jersey….WHAAAAA? [Spin]
Fatboy Slim Announces Sideproject With David Byrne, Martha Wainwright, and…Cyndi Lauper?; Here Lies Love (Apparenty A Concept Album About Former First Lady of the Phillipines…To Whom None of the Above Most Likely Have Any Connection, Especially Lauper) Released Sometime in 2010 [NME]
Stream Another New Devendra Banhart Song, “Angelika;” Sounds Like a Donovan Song, Suddenly Overtaken By Buena Vista Social Club, Which is Not As Awesome As It Sounds; What Will We Be Released October 27 [Pitchfork]
Kanye West’s and Lady’s Gaga’s Fame Kills Tour MAY Be Cancelled ALLEGEDLY Due to RUMORS that Kanye POSSIBLY Is Checking Into Rehab For HYPOTHETICAL Alcoholism; In Other News, This Is An Unsubstantiated Rumor [Prefix]
The Compact Disc Celebrates Its 27th Birthday; Like Many 27 Year Olds, The CD Will Be Mourning Its Seemingly Imminent Death By Looking At More Youthful Versions of Itself Online (Hopefully Via Lala…What a Great Service) [Idolator]
Stream Animal Collective’s Remix of Phoenix’s “Love Like a Sunset” – Tribal, Glitchy, Airy; How Does Animal Collective Manage To Make Every Song They Remix Sound Like ANY Animal Collective Song? [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch New Black Lips Video For 200 Million Thousand Cut “Let It Grow;” Starts Pretty Normal, Buffalo 66 Style…Ends With a Lot of Aliens, And Slightly Necrophilia-Centric Images [Stereogum]
The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay To Release a Collection of Short Stories, Entitled Complicated Gardening Techniques In January; I Make Vow To Report Any Hold Steady News No Matter How Seemingly Insignificant [Pitchfork]
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Lily Allen, Who Recently Quit Music, Reissues Some of Her Music, Performs Music With Dizzee Rascal, Seems Completely Immersed In Music [Idolator]
Portishead Working On Follow-Up to Last Year’s Third; “It Could Be Out In a Year’s Time,” Meaning It Hopefully Won’t Take Another Decade [Pitchfork]
Stream Karen O’s Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack In Full; Feel All Fuzzy Inside, Grow Tired of the Seemingly Constant Clap Tracks [Stereogum]
British Post-Punk Dudes The Futureheads Working On a “Complicated” New Album; I Can’t Decide If It Would Be Sweeter If It Were This Kind Of Complicated, Or Some Other, More Complex Kind of Complicated [Prefix]
UK MC Lady Sovereign Arrested In Australia After Spitting In Someone’s Face; According To Twitter, Sovereign Believes Spitting “Nasty,” But Being Punched In the Head, Nastier [NME]
Watch New Andrew Bird Video For “Anonanimal” – Does This Remind Anyone Else of Day of the Tentacle? 90s Point And Click Adventure Game Fans? Too Niche? Guys? [Rolling Stone]
Stream Upcoming Air Album Love 2 In It’s Entirety; Simultaneously, See Who Else Is Currently Streaming Love 2 (Currently, There’s One Person In Siberia Listening, Probably Trying To Warm Up With Some Sweet, Breathy Air) [Prefix]
Nathan Williams From Wavves and Jared Swiley From Black Lips Got Into a Bit of a Scuffle, And Somehow Williams Won (Sort Of…He’s Just A Little Guy); Swiley Continually Calls Williams The F- Word (No, The Other, Really Bad F- Word) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Hey It’s Monday, We’re All Feeling A Little Down…Here’s A Couple New Sufjan Stevens Songs; Oh No, Now I’m Feeling Really Down [Pitchfork]
Stream Devendra Banhart’s Awesome Remix of Phoenix’s “Rome” – Devendra Being Good At Remixing Is Always Surprising, Like Remembering Cher Won An Oscar [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Video For Taken By Trees’ (Victoria Bergsman, That Girl Who Whistles and Sings on “Young Folks”) Cover of Animal Collective’s Merriweather Banger “My Girls,” Re-imagined As “My Boys” (Its Stupid. Plain and Simple) [Stereogum]
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Live Nation Offers “No Service Fee Wednesday” Today [Brooklyn Vegan]
Kanye West and Lady Gaga Announce Fall Tour [Idolator]
Perez Hilton Says Christina Aguilera is Recording With Le Tigre [Spin]
Live Nation and Ticketmaster Merger Challenged as Monopoly in UK [NME]
Phoenix and Passion Pit Play Central Park Summerstage [Brooklyn Vegan]
Devendra Banhart Remixes Oasis [NME]
Patrick Wolf Arrested and “Almost Shot in the Face” in San Francisco [Pitchfork]
New Roots Album How I Got Over Announced; Roots May Be Busiest Band in Universe [Prefix]
Stream Sunset Rubdown’s New Album Dragonslayer on NPR [NPR]
Touch & Go’s DIY 70s Punk Zine Becomes Really Nice Book [The Tripwire]
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Eleven Killed at Festival in Morocco [SPIN]
Dan Deacon’s On All Those Days On Tour [Impose Magazine]
Now You Too Can Remix Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” [Prefix]
(I know we already mentioned it but) Grizzly Bear’s New Album Out Today - And Others [SPIN]
Bill Maher Interview w/ M.I.A. [Prefix]
Kanye West Has Written a Book [Reuters]
Lady Sovereign Throws a Hissy Fit in San Fran [The Tripwire]
Stream New Simian Mobile Disco Track Featuring Chris Keating [Prefix]
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(Yet Another) Phoenix Remix [The Tripwire]
Seattle Considering Tax Breaks for Small Music Venues [Tiny Mix Tapes]
Creed Will Perform With Fire (Literally, That’s Not the Name of a Band) [Billboard]
Green Day’s New Album Won’t Be Sold at Wal-Mart [Idolator]
Win Tickets to See PJ Harvey and John Parish! [Prefix]
Okkervil River Will Open for Wilco [Tiny Mix Tapes]
New Brent Knopf (of Menomena) Side Project [Pitchfork]
Flu (Though Unclear What Kind) Still Cancelling Shows [NME]
Apparently Paste Has Some Magnanimous Readers [Prefix]
Guess Dan Deacon Won’t Be Playing at the Old Folk’s Home [Stereogum]
Sigur Ros’s Jon Þor “Jónsi” Birgisson Set to Record Solo Album [Pitchfork]
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