July 19, 2008
"Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth." - Christina Aguilera
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TOUR NEWS:
Forgotten Chinese Zodiac, Year of The Dance Party, Continues To Reign Supreme As Hot Chip Announce September North American Tour; Tickets On Sale TODAY
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Unwed Sailor Tour States With Syphilis, I Mean, Sybris
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Siren Music Fest, Coney Island 2008; Me, Professionally Reporting The News In A Relatively Straightforward Manner (With Parenthetical Sarcasm)
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Six Organs of Admittance Tour, Some Number Of Permissive Pianos Out To Represent
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Eric’s Trip, Les Thugs, And The Vaselines Lube Up Flaccid Sub Pop Festival Lineup
RELEASE NEWS:
Get Me A Double-Disc of Patti Smith, Stat. Kevin Shields and Grandmother of Punk Team Up To Save Your Soul With Coral Sea Release
RELEASE NEWS:
Artist Bonnie Billy (Formerly Known As Prince) Preps Fourth LP Release For May; Jeffrey Lewis Asks If It’s Worth Being an Indie Rock Star
INDUSTRY NEWS:
Search, Seizure, and Destruction: Atlanta Officials Destroy $20 Million Worth of Pirated Material; Thousands of copies of Madonna’s
Confessions Remixed
, Gone. Just
Gone
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TOUR NEWS:
Bunch Of Kids Donate Basement Space To Musicians, Call It A Festival. What The Heck?
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Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Festival in July, Baby
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I Am A Broken And Joyless Writer Subject To The Whims And Fancies Of A Pitiless Editor; I Blame Feist And Her Heartless Booking Agent
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Rob Crow - Waxes Enthusiastic
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Sigur Rós langferđ the veröld. This er íslenska, a tungumál afleitt orđ frá Norrćna*
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Silver Jews Get Israeli On Your Ass, Tour Europe With Tel-Aviv Rockers Monotonix
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Leonard Cohen Is On Tour, Yes, But The Important Thing Here Is That You Recognize How Much Allen Ginsberg I’ve Been Reading And That I’m Currently Bumming Around New York
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"Putting all this pressure on a song to change culture is impossibly big for a song."
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"I would like to do it cryogenic style, but people say I’m already too cold-hearted as it is."
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"I’d choose an elephant."
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Friday, 07-18-2008
• Black Dice Schedule Fall Dates, New Album in 2009
• Chris Schlarb to Perform
Twilight and Ghost Stories
in Its Entirety in San Francisco and Austin
• Best Buy To Sell Albums by Local and Unsigned Artists; The Laughter of a Child Still The “Best Buy” Of All
• They Never Drew First, But They Drew First Blood: Not-So-Young Guns Universal and MasterCard Join Forces in Downloading Initiative
• Swedish Invasion, Round 3: Jose Gonzalez Takes on America — Well, Part of It
• MusicFest NW Music Festival: Tickets are cheap and there are actually bands worth seeing!
Thursday, 07-17-2008
• Scott Walker Produces Concert Cloaked in Mystery/Lack of Information!
• Mobb Deep Sue Former Manager Over Unpaid Royalties; Manager "Shook"
• The Howling Hex Got a Little
Earth Junk
in the Trunk, Courtesy of Drag City Records
• Beck Announces Vinyl Release, Adds More Tourdates; Danger Mouse Not to be Directly Involved with Either
• Nick Cave Sounds Better in 5.1, Right?
• Ryan Adams Announces Tourdates, Cancels Tourdates to Mope Over Breakup With Mandy Moore, Re-Announces Dates After Record Company Forces Him To
• [UPDATED] My Life in the Bush of Whoa! David Byrne and Brian Eno Confirm First Set of Autumn Tourdates; Byrne to Self-Release New Album with Eno!
Wednesday, 07-16-2008
• Magnetic Fields to Embark on Second U.S. Tour of 2008 in October
• Vision Creation New Shoes: Boredoms (ボアダムス) Team with NIKE (NYSE: NKE) to Present "88BoaDrum"
• Think You’re Tough? Think You Can Stomach Predictable Headlines? Try Some of This: We’re Happy When it Rains Jesus and Mary Chain Box Sets!
• HUSH Records Celebrates 10th Anniversary with a FREE Compilation!
• ACL Fest Hosts Online BOTB; Relive High School, Vote Now, Vote Often
• of Montreal Announce Tourdates;
Skeletal Lamping
Cover Features a Cartoon of My Hairdresser Naked; Let’s Go Outback Tonight
Tuesday, 07-15-2008
• Hellig Lort! Slottsfjell Festival to Take Place in Two Days!
• Broken Social Scene Whore Themselves Out Once More with Tour
• Comcast Ordered to Stop Interfering with BitTorrent Traffic, Faces FCC Sanctions
• Bodies of Water Considering Changing Name to "Bodies in Motion" to Coincide with Forthcoming Tour; Stubbornly Refuses to Change Name to Zippy "Bodies Release Album"
• Oasis Unfurl a Red Velvet Tapestry Containing Tracklist and Title for New LP Written in Solid Gold Thread; That’s How Fancy, Awesome and British Oasis [Still] Is
• Peanut Butter Wolf to Play 8 Shows in 8 days at 8 Clubs, Me to Eat 8 Peanut Butter Sandwiches
• Gang Gang Dance Set to Release New Album,
Saint Dymphna
, on The Social Registry and Warp
Monday, 07-14-2008
• The Best Is Ready to Begin, New Growing Album in September!
• Daniel Dove, BitTorrent Extraordinaire, Faces Ten Years of Not Being One (In Jail)
• The Verve to Release
Forth
;
Forth
To Apparently Include Ten Tracks That Are Not “Bitter Sweet Symphony”
• Cold War Kids Tour, Announce New Album; TMT Sets You Straight on “Kids” Bands
• Ariel Pink Tours: With or Without Farty Armpit Sounds?
• Team Clermont Announces Summer Camp Festival Lineup, Featuring Music, Kickball, Scavenger Hunt, and Four Square!
• “The City That Knows How”.. to Steal Your Shit: Maria Taylor’s Van Robbed in San Francisco, People Suck
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