Watch New Girls Video For Girls Highlight “Laura,” Which Is Like a Really Hip, Joyous Version of the Opening to The Brady Bunch…Only With More Tattoos (Maybe; They Rarely Took of Their Shirts on That Show) [NME]
Dancey Portland Band Starfucker (Who, You May Remember, Was Unhappy With Their NSFW Band Name) Changes Name to PYRAMID; Elsewhere (Specifically in North Carolina), There Is Already a Band Called Pyramid [Brooklyn Vegan]
Brooding UK Indie Band Editors Launch Their Own Version of Google Street View, With Specific Locations Playing Songs From Their New Album, In This Light and On This Evening — This Is Probably A Lot Cooler For Someone Even Remotely Familiar With London’s Geography [NME]
Weezer Frontman Rivers Cuomo To Sit Down and Write Songs With Katy Perry Next Week; Possible Results: “I Kissed a God Damn Half-Japanese Girl,” “Only In Ur Dreams,” “Waking Up In The Garage (If You Want To Destroy My Career)” [Pitchfork]
Courtney Love Owes Over $300,000 In Back Taxes, Shuts Down Her Twitter Account – Two Stories Unrelated, As Twitter Is Free Service [Prefix]
New Zealand Innocuously Good Indie Poppers The Ruby Suns Announce New Album; Fight Softly Released March, 2010 [You Ain’t No Picasso]
Stream Bon Iver’s Final Concert; In Other News, Bon Iver’s Hiatus Very Temporary, I Get Bombastic In Attempt to Cause Controversy On Our Website [Radio Milwaukee]
Stream Title Track From Brooklyn’s Acrylics’ Upcoming EP All of the Fire; Produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor (And Released on Terrible Records, His Label), EP Released October 28 [Jezebel Music]
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox To Release Bonus EP With Atlas Sound LP Logos When Ordered From Rough Trade; I Haven’t Looked Into Yet, But Knowing Cox’s Security Practices, EP Probably Leaked Before It Was Even Recorded [Pitchfork]
Guard Arrested For Assaulting a Fan Taking Pictures at House of Blues Chicago; Weirdly, Assault Took Place at Hanson Concert – And What Else Is There To Do When Seeing Hanson, Except Twittering Pictures of Hanson, Still In Disbelief They Have Songs Other Than “Mmmbop” [Idolator]
Baritone California Mope-Folker Mark Everett, AKA Eels, AKA Mr. E, AKA E, To Release Basement Tapes Album; End Times Released January 18 [NME]
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Ryan Adams To Appear At New York Public Library To Discuss His New Book, HelloSunshine…With Weeds Star Mary Louise Parker; Journalists Confused As To What Weeds Has To Do With Ryan Adams [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Chicago’s Smith Westerns New Track “Imagine Pt. 3” (First Impression: It’s Awesome, Sunshiney, Poppy, Optimistic, Bombastic…Did I Say Awesome?) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch New Grizzly Bear Video For Veckatimest Highlight “While You Wait For The Others” (Video Makes No Sense, But May Just Be A Tribute To Underappreciated Fencing); Better Yet, Don’t Waste Your Time And Just Listen To This [Pitchfork]
Weezer Releases Upcoming LP Ratitude’s Cover Art (I’ll Save You A Click: It’s A Picture of a Dog Jumping Really High…and It Says Ratitude. That’s All); Ratitude Released October 27 [Idolator]
Portland Dance-Poppers Starfucker Change Name From Starfucker; Awesome Band Names Get Less Awesome (And I Swear To God, If Anal Cunt Stops Being Anal Cunt, I’ll Scream) [The Tripwire]
French House Duo Daft Punk To Appear In Upcoming DJ Hero Videogame; First Screenshot Here…Which Yet Again Proves My Theory That Daft Punk Are Actually Highly Sophisticated Robots [Spin]
Frank Sinatra Estate Releases “Come Fly With Me” Limited Edition Wine; Meanwhile, Japanese Company Makes Bad Brains Flip Flops (I Favor the Latter As a Superior Tribute) [Prefix]
Seattle Math-Rockers Minus The Bear To Debut New Material At The Gramercy Theater On October 15; New Single “The Mirror” Released October 27 [Brooklyn Vegan]
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