Dickie Peterson, Bassist and Lead Singer of Foundational Metal Band Blue Cheer, Passes Away at 61 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s Bleak Theme From the Film Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road; No Words, Just Grandiose Post-Apocalyptic Meandering [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Sufjan Stevens Is Going Through Serious Soul Searching, Questioning Point of Both The Song and The Album, Seems Loaded With Melancholia (In Other Words, Sufjan Stevens Feeling Exactly Like Sufjan Stevens) [Vish Khanna]
Stream “This Is It,” a Posthumous Michael Jackson Recording Featured in the Upcoming Jackson Documentary This Is It; “This Is It” and This Is It Making Good Case For This Not Really Being It, Unless “It” Is Mediocre Jackson Material [Pitchfork]
Musicians Come Together In London In Debate On Future of the Music Industry – While Everyone Familiar With Daft Punk Know They Have Already Figured It Out: Become Robots [NME]
Stream New Brooklyn Fuck-Core (Yeah, I Just Invented That Genre) Giants Lightning Bolt, “Flooded Chamber” – A Tribal, Ecstatic Blitzkrieg of Sound and Drums, Which I’m Pretty Sure Samples Radiohead’s “Pact Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box” at The Beginning; Garden of Earthly Delights Released Tomorrow [Stereogum]
Stream New Fall Out Boy, “Alpha Dog” – Which Is a Hilarious Amalgamation of Overproduced Cock-Pop, and Gang Vocals That Slightly Resemble The Bee Gees; Elsewhere, My Readership Confused As To Why I Post New Fall Out Boy Song [Idolator]
I Like Elvis, But Not Enough To Dig Up His Body or Anything Weird Like That…Hmm…How Can I Show My Love For The King? I Know! I’ll Buy His Hair! (Yes, This is Real) [The Tripwire]
Stream Burial (That UK Dub-Guy Who…You Know, Everyone Loves) and Flying Lotus (That L.A. Glitch-Guy Who…You Know, Everyone Is Sort of Indifferent Towards) Collaboration; As Such, Track Is Sort of Unremarkable [Gorilla vs. Bear]
compiled by Max Sebela
