Stream Shoegaze-y New Panda Bear Track, Performed Live This Weekend At All Tomorrow’s Parties NY (Warning: Recording Is Incredibly Janky, For Lack of a Better Word) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Kanye West Completely Ruin Taylor Swift’s “Best Female Video” VMA Win, Believes “Single Ladies” Best Video of Decade; Elsewhere, Kanye Apologizes (Sort Of: “I AM VERY HAPPY FOR TAYLOR” Followed By: “I GAVE MY AWARDS TO OUTKAST WHEN THEY DESERVED IT OVER ME”) [Entertainment Weekly]
Stream Death Cab for Cutie Song For Twilight Sequel New Moon, “Meet Me on the Equinox” (MTV Calls It “Perfect” Accompaniment For the Upcoming Film; MTV Correct: It Sucks) [MTV]
Watch Trailer For Documentary On Michael Jackson’s Last Planned Tour, This Is It (From The Look of It, Film Features Less Emotive Footage of Jackson’s Last Days; More Dancing and Pyrotechnics) [Prefix]
Former Rolling Stones Guitarist Mick Taylor Broke As Hell; Meanwhile, Keith Richards Sleeps On Seemingly Bottomless Pile of Gold, Cocaine, and Mickey Mantle Rookie Cards [Prefix]
Jim Carroll, “Basketball Diaries” Author, Punk Frontman of The Jim Carroll Band, Passes Away at 60 [New York Times]
Atlanta Psych-Artists Deerhunter Announce Hiatus “For A Long Time”(Boo-Hiss); Frontman Bradford Cox Releases Atlas Sound LP Logos October 20 [Spinner]
Stream Dutch DJ Tiësto Track “Kaleidoscope” Featuring Sigur Rós Frontman Jónsi Birgisson, Kaleidoscope Released October 20 [Pitchfork]
Stream Toro y Moi Remix of Blog-Loved Washed Out Single “Feel it All Around;” – Not For Those With General Propensity To Feel Sadness/Regularly Tear Up At Brand New’s “Soco Amaretto Lime” [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Ohio Blues Duo The Black Keys Announce Hip-Hop Sideproject Blakroc; Blakroc Released November 27 (And Features Raekwon, Q-Tip, and Mos Def…Stream First Track [NME]
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Norwegian Sleep-Poppers Kings of Convenience Announce Third LP, Declaration of Dep-yawn-endence; Released October 20 [Billboard]
M83’s Anthony Gonzales Slaps A Dude On The Head Because Said Dude Didn’t Love Dancing Enough…And Apologizes For It [Brooklyn Vegan]
Daft Punk Will Provide Music To Tron: Legacy — Apparently Made Decision Over Pancake Breakfast, Which Proves Theory That Robots Love Pancakes [Idolator]
Stream First Official Track Off Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3 (Spoiler: Kills It.) [Spin]
Brooklyn D.I.Y. Venue / Unbearable Sweat Warehouse The Market Hotel Gets Air Conditioning; Fans of Relative Comfort Overjoyed [Brooklyn Vegan]
Thom Yorke and Bon Iver Write Song For Twilight Sequel New Moon…I Tearfully Ask Why? [Spin]
Raekwon, Ghostface, RZA and Method Man Announce Non-Wu Album Together; GZA and Master Killah Feel Left Out, Inspectah Deck Understands, But Wishes They Would’ve Called [NME]
Possibly The Largest Gathering of Slowly-Growing-Irrelevant Classic Rockers (Simon and Garfunkle, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Eric Clapton) Come Together For Rock Hall of Fame Show At Madison Square Garden [Brooklyn Vegan]
Brooklyn’s Pains of Being Pure At Heart Announce Two New Releases: “Come Saturday” Single Due Out September 8; Higher Than Stars EP Due Out September 22 [The Tripwire]
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