The Commodores Reunite With Lionel Richie At Essence Fest [Billboard]
Former Manager of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Allen Klein Passes Away [NME]
“California Family Claims to See Michael Jackson’s Face in Tree” — No Joke Can Make That Headline Funnier [CBS13]
Foo Fighters Debut New Song At Obama’s USO 4th of July Party…Obama Pleased, But Really Wanted to Hear Grohl Cover “Tiny Dancer” [Spin]
Twilight Sad Tour U.S. With Frightened Rabbit – Fans Work Hard on Their Scottish Accents for Sing Alongs [Tripwire]
Radiohead Manager Brian Message Launches Polyphonic Records; Allows Artists to Keep Copyrights [NME]
Jack White Sets Up Subscription Service Through His Record Label; Cryptically Called “The Vault” [Spin]
Dinosaur Jr.’s/Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow to Release Goodnight Unknown October 6 [Pitchfork]
Listen to New Air Track, “Do the Joy” Now! It’s Robotic! Hypnotic! Dreamy! It Sounds Exactly Like Air! [Prefix]
Oasis’ Noel Gallagher Really Loves Drugs [Prefix]
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Janet Jackson and Michael’s Brothers May Do Tribute Tour [Billboard]
Historic Lower East Side Punk Collective “ABC No Rio” Gets a Ton of Government Money! Wait…Isn’t That Not Punk? [NYTimes]
Erykah Badu and the Roots Lay Down Quick Cover of Jackson’s “I Wanna Be Where You Are”; Stream It! [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Jay Z Debuts Official “Death of Auto-Tune” Video; Co-Starring LeBron James and Harvey Keitel Getting Hova-ed [Spin]
Pixies To Play All of Seminal Album Doolittle on Tour…Pixies Fans “Gone to Heaven” [NME]
Springsteen Opens With Clash’s “London Calling” At Glastonbury Festival [NME]
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon to Release Between My Head and the Sky as Plastic Ono Band [Pitchfork]
Slayer Announces Typically-Bad-Ass-Named Album World Painted Blood [Billboard]
MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O Guest on Flaming Lips’ Upcoming Embryonic [Pitchfork]
Stream Scotland’s Twlight Sad’s New Single “I Became a Prostitute” [MySpace]
Neil Young and Paul McCartney Play Sgt. Pepper’s “A Day in the Life” at Glastonbury [The Tripwire]
San Francisco’s Recently In the Tube-d Girls Sign to Matador [Tiny Mix Tapes]
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