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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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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