So It’s Actually Coming Out: Wu-Tang Member Raekwon To Play Two Nights At Manhattan’s Santos Party House To Celebrate The Long Anticipated Release of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch A Ridiculously Shoddy Video of “Michael Jackson” Allegedly Still Alive, Entering The Coroner’s Office…Tupac, Biggie, John Hughes, Andy Kaufman, and Jesus All Sighted on the Premises As Well [Idolator]
The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” Scribe Ellie Greenwich Passes Away At 68 [Pitchfork]
Watch Goth Legend Bauhaus’s Peter Murphy Join Nine Inch Nails On Stage At NIN’s Farewell Show At New York’s Terminal 5 [Spin]
The Who’s Pete Townshend Announces A New Rock Opera Floss, Along With A New Who Album To Be Released Sometime In 2010 – Floss Is About A Bar Musician, Who The Who Couldn’t Have Possibly Related To In Like 20 Years [NME]
Noisy Brooklynites Gang Gang Dance’s Drummer Jesse Lee Attacked By Security At Belgium’s Pukkelpop Festival [Brooklyn Vegan]
Former Hüsker Dü Drummer Grant Heart Readies His First Solo Album In A Decade (Sidenote: Hell Yeah!); Hot Wax Released October 6 [Prefix]
UK Extravaganza, The Reading And Leeds Festival, Announces They Will Have Zero Tolerance Toward Crowd Surfing (Read: Fun) [Prefix]
Watch Rapper Lil Wayne’s Pro School PSA; The Sentiment Good…The Ad (And Trying To Consider The “Syrup” Addicted, Face Tattooed Lil Wayne A Role Model) Confusing [Videogum]
Stream The Second Song Of The Bon Iver/Collections of Colonies of Bees Collaboration Volcano Choir, “Youlogy” (It’s Dark, Brooding, And Decidedly Boring); Unmap Released September 22 [NPR]
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Roger Daltrey of The Who to Go On Solo Tour, Talk About His Generation to the Youngsters [BrooklynVegan]
As You May Know, We Love Talking Heads. So Please Don’t Call On Oct. 13, When Stop Making Sense Comes Out On Blu-Ray Format [Pitchfork]
Bad Blood Between Matador Records and Victory Records Getting Worse In Wake of House Fire [Pitchfork]
No More Albums Don’t Mean No More Music! Listen to New Radiohead Track, “These Are My Twisted Words” [Consequence Of Sound]
Are You On The Bus? Dan Deacon’s Bus That Is. Watch This Mini Documentary About Deacon’s “Vantastic” School Bus [Pitchfork]
Dr. Dre to Rescue Your Ears From All Those Sad Tinny mp3s You’ve Been Listening To, Thus Saving the World of Digital Music! [Pitchfork]
What Dislocated Shoulder? Randy Randall and No Age Back On Tour, Hitting New York In October [Tiny Mix Tapes]
RIP Rashied Ali, Jazz Drummer, Coltrane Collaborator [NME]
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