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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Stream New Sondre Lerche Single, “Good Luck” Off His Upcoming LP Heartbeat Radio; Released September 8 [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stage Collapses at Big Valley Jamboree Festival in Canada; 1 Dead, At Least 15 Injured [Rolling Stone]
Artwork To Jay Z’s Much Anticipated The Blueprint 3 Unveiled; Looks A Lot Like Michael Jackson’s “Scream” Video (I’d Kill To See A Video of Jay Dancing Through Space) [Idolator]
Wu-Tang Member Raekwon Releases Artwork For Equally Anticipated Only Built For Cuban Linx… Pt II; Features Raekwon Tied Up, Having Decapitated The Statue of Liberty With A Ninja Sword (Uh, Hell Yeah? I Guess?); Cuban Linx Due Out (Supposedly) September 8 [Pitchfork]
Red Hot Chili Peppers To Record In October; More Importantly Drummer Chad Smith, Already A Member of the Ludicrously Named Chickenfoot, Is Recording With A Band Called Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats (?…!) [Spin]
Heath Ledger-Directed Video For Mouse Mouse Song “King Rat” To Premier On Myspace Tomorrow [Pitchfork]
Island Def Jam To Advertise In CD Booklets, Starting With Mariah Carey’s Upcoming Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel; At Least They Aren’t Selling Ad-Space On The Album Yet [Prefix]
Brooklyn’s St. Vincent To Tour With Grizzly Bear – Tour Hypothesis: These Shows Will Sound Nice. [Pitchfork]
UK’s Bat For Lashes Debuts Video For Two Suns Single “Sleep Alone;” Video As Inexplicable And Plotless As The Recently In The Tube-d “Daniel” [Prefix]
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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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