Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, Better Known as MCA, Diagnosed With Cancer; Tour Cancelled and New Beasties LP, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, Delayed [Billboard]
Thriller Set to Break The Eagles’ Record As The Highest Selling Album of All-Time…Good. [Billboard]
Built To Spill Finishing Seventh LP, There Is No Enemy; Released Sometime In October [Brooklyn Vegan]
Andrew W.K. Appears On Fox News; Facially Ridicules Fox News, and Remains Awesome [Prefix]
Stream Neo-Hippies The Polyphonic Spree’s New Demo “Blurry” [Gorilla Vs. Bear]
Limp Bizkit Played First US Show In 5 Years; Guitarist Wes Borland Looks Straight Out of Apocalypto [Spin]
Ne-Yo Loves Fans, Hates Bloggers, And Is Really Quite A Sensitive Man [Idolator]
Stream New Islands Song “No You Don’t;” New LP Vapours Due Out September 22 [Pitchfork]
Satanic Verses Author Salman Rushdie and Alt-Rockers Dredg Confoundingly Come Together For Charity [Spin]
Lil Wayne’s Much-Anticipated (For All The Wrong Reasons) Rock Album Rebirth Joins Detox and Cuban Linx II On Long List of Rap Albums That Will Probably Never Be Released [Idolator]
Stream Thom Yorke’s New Song “Present Tense” Performed Live At England’s Latitude Festival [Spin]
British Police Investigating The Game And His Entourage On Charges Of Assault…And He Seemed Like Such A Family Man [Prefix]
compiled by Max Sebela
