Download ATL RMX, a New Compilation From Cartoon Purveyors/Obvious Psychedelic Drug Users Adult Swim Featuring Atlanta Hip-Hop Remixed by HEALTH, SALEM, and Other All Capitalized Hipster Electronica Projects [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Stream New Smashing Pumpkins, “A Song for a Son,” the first of 44 Songs that Will Make Up the Predestined Tragedy that is Teargarden by Kaleidyscope; Elsewhere, What the Hell Happened to the Smashing Pumpkins’ Website? It Looks Like it Was Taken Over By Grateful Dead Groupies, Circa 1978 [Spinner]
Rivers Cuomo Injured in Tour Bus Accident (Don’t Worry, He’s Okay); Weezer Cancels Remainder of their U.S Tour; Rivers Heard to Shout “God Damn You Half Visible Black Ice…You Do It to Me Every Time” [Spin]
Sigur Ros Frontman Jonsi Birgisson Has Fronted a Band, a Duo, and Now a Solo Project – Announces Solo Debut Go; Stream the First Available Track “Boy Lilikoi,” Which is Maybe the Most Orchestral Thing Jonsi Has Ever Done…Which is Confusing, Considering Sigur Ros is a Orchestral Rock Band…; Released March 21 [Pitchfork]
Chan Marshall, Better Known as Cat Power, Announces Her Next Album, Her First Collection of Original Songs Since 2006’s The Greatest. She’ll Be Recording It Without Her Backing Band, And Claims the Songs are “Sad,” and That Makes Her “Nervous,” So Let’s Hope its “Good” So She Has Nothing to Worry “About” [NME]
Postal Service Attempting to Drain Shellac’s Steve Albini, and the Children of Chicago of Any/All Christmas Spirit, Demanding the Letters to Santa Program Send All Their Charitable Gifts Through the Mail…No, Not that Postal Service. THAT Postal Service [Pitchfork]
Stream New Vampire Weekend, “California English Pt. 2,” and Hear as Vampire Weekend Continues to Convince Me That They are Emotively and Musically Not Only Important, But Necessary…Watch My Brain Meltdown as I Become Paradoxical to Everything I Initially Believed About Myself, Doubt Existence as It Currently Stands [Prefix]
Frightened Rabbit, the Second Nervous-Animals to Be Featured in Today’s Daily News Picks (See Above), Announce Their Next Album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, to be Released on March 1, Following an Allegedly Drunken, Jager-Bomb Fuelled Winter [NME]
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Devo Signs 360 Deal With Warner Brothers, Will Tour, Release New Album In 2010 [Rolling Stone]
Smashing Pumpkins To Release Free 44-Song Album, One Track At A Time. [Idolator]
If You Still Get Pangs For The Days When G-Funk Reigned Supreme and Snoop Went By Doggy Dog, Listen to This Death Row Release From Snoop Doggy Dogg: The Lost Sessions Volume 1 [Prefix]
Dizzee Rascal Gets His Own Sneaker, The “Tongue N’ Cheek” [Pitchfork]
Last.fm to Become Radio Station [Pitchfork]
Stream New Air Song, “So Light Is Her Footfall” [Prefix]
Pavement Is Reuniting, According To “Real and Official” Source [Pitchfork]
Listen To New Grooms, “Wicked Game” [Stereogum]
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Courtney Love Tweets At Her Disgust Of Kurt Cobain Appearing In Guitar Hero 5; Threatens To Sue Activision; Claims “Ever did intend on allowing GUITARHERO for me or for Kurt am NOT oko fucking ONO;” Meanwhile, Yoko Ono’s Name Remains “Yoko Ono” [Spin]
Watch New Air Video For “Sing Sang Sung” – Follow The Bouncing Ball Through What Looks Like Yoshi’s Island; Love 2 Released October 6 [Pitchfork]
Sufjan Stevens To Play All Of Seven Swans, His Most Christian (And Arguably Worst) Album At All Tomorrow’s Parties NY [ATP Twitter]
Brooklyn Snore-Pop Duo Beach House Sign To Sub Pop; Third LP (Still Unnamed) To Be Released Early 2010 [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Smashing Pumpkins Frontman/Sole Original Member Billy Corgan Launches Spirituality Website; Good For Him: Corgan Has Convinced Himself He’s God For About Twenty Years – Now He Has An Outlet To Prove It! [Pitchfork]
Britpop So-So’s The Cribs’ Fourth Album Ignore The Ignorant Outsell The Beatles Reissues – Americans Remain Unclear As To Whether The Cribs, The Hives, and The Bravery Are Different Bands [NME]
Watch New Sunset Rubdown Video For Dragonslayer Cut “Black Swan” – It’s A Third ITunes Visualizer, A Third Grim Fandango, And A Third Swedish Jeans Commercial (Alternatively: 100% Good, Ol’ Fashioned Peyote Induced Fun!) [Pitchfork]
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You’ve Had A Tough Day, I Understand…Here, Have A New Lil Wayne Track…There You Go, All Better Now [Prefix]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Off-Shoot Grinderman Announce Follow Up To Their 2007 Self-Titled Debut; To Be Released Early 2010 [NME]
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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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