The Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains to Play Free VICE Sponsored Halloween Party In Brooklyn; Theme of Night: 1994; Year Bad Brains Stopped Making Good Music: 1988 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Norwegian “Take on Me” Writers A-Ha Split After 25 Year Career; I Struggle With Realization That A-Ha Had a Career That Spanned Longer Than the Four Minutes of the “Take on Me” Music Video [NME]
Athens Alt-Rock Trio the Whigs Release New Song “In the Dark;” So if the Whigs are “Alt-Rock Revival,” and “Alt-Rock” Was a Way of Describing “Post-Punk” That Went Mainstream, Does That Mean the Whigs are Simulating an Invented Genre, and Are Then Inherently Meaningless? (No, This Song Shreds) [The Tripwire]
Stream Glitched-Out, Doo-Wop Garage Pop Cover of “I Only Have Eyes For You” By Sweden’s Summer Camp – Starts Abrasive; Ends Blissfully Saccharine (In a “I’m Listening To This On My Gameboy” Way) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Former Be Your Own Pet Frontwoman Jemina Pearl’s Video For “I Hate People;” Features Thurston Moore As a Bespectacled Fry Cook (Which He Should Probably Take Up a Career As), and Cut Outs of Iggy Pop Singing With Pearl; The Entire Thing as Strange as It Sounds [Stereogum]
White Stripes to Release Early Outtakes Through Jack White’s Third Man Records Vault – I May Set Up My First Paid Internet Subscription in Like 5 Years For This [Pitchfork]
Slow News Day; I Report Story About Soulja Boi Getting Evicted From His L.A. Apartment For Unpaid Rent (Let’s See Him “Superman” His Way Out of This One (I Don’t Actually Want to See That)) [Prefix]
Stream New N.E.R.D. Featuring Santigold, “Soldier” – Heavily Influx of Regatone, With the Most Blistering Production the Neptunes Have Done in a Long Time [KanyeUniverseCity]
compiled by Max Sebela
Roadtrip, Anyone? Initial Pop Montreal Lineup Announced [Brooklyn Vegan]
Santigold Working on New Album With Pharrell Williams [NME]
Prefuse 73 Organizes Super-Group [Pitchfork]
The White Stripes Making Documentary of Canadian Tour [Rolling Stone]
De La Soul Touring in Celebration of 20 Years of 3 Feet High and Rising [Brooklyn Vegan]
Mos Def’s New Album Available in T-Shirt Format [Pitchfork]
BAM Announces Schedule for Next Wave Festival 2009 [Brooklyn Vegan]
The Ventures’ Bob Bogle Dies [Rolling Stone]
Members of Blur and New Order Team Up to Form Bad Lieutenant [The Tripwire]
Coldplay Off The Hook In Cat Stevens’ Book [The Tripwire]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
