Archive for January, 2009

Very Small Array has created a crazy chart of the Pitchfork Music’s Top 100 Songs of 2008. If you are OCD you will love this:

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This track, titled “Lenin,” is a B-Side from Arcade Fire’s Funeral sessions. It is now slated to be released on Dark was the Night, a The National produced compilation to raise money for HIV/AIDs research organization The Red Hot Organization.
This track has been around previously in a couple forms and was originally known as “When Lenin [...]

It’s here, and it’s better than last year. The Coachella 2009 lineup has been revealed. There are some pretty safe headliners (Paul McCartney, The Killers, and the Cure), but interesting lineups. Saturday seems to be ‘the heap’ this year, where the pile everyone who can’t quite come together for a theme. Coachella is also doing [...]

Andrew Bird recently swooped by David Letterman to perform “Fitz & Dizzyspells” from his latest album Noble Beast. Check it out, it’s pretty great. (And is that Michael Lewis of Happy Apple fame playing bass with Bird? I think it is. Wait, Wait, is that Martin Dosh on drums? It’s a regular MPLS reunion on [...]

Brooklyn’s The Antlers are gearing up to release their second full length disc, Hospice. In support of that album, due March 3rd, the band is heading out to do a trek around the US, punctuated by a short stint at SXSW.
If you get a chance to preview any of Hospice, or to catch them on [...]

MtvU has, just yesterday, premiered the new POS video from his forthcoming album Never Better. The video is for the track “Drumroll.” This is a pretty great track, that recalls why POS won my heart with his last album, Audition. It has that pseudo-punk rock vibe that brands his hip-hop as being a little different [...]

John Darnielle has announced he’s doing a solo Mountain Goats tour with Vanderslice in tow. The tour is to be a far more intimate affair than the normal Mountain Goats live performance. Darnielle will be performing the entire tour as a solo acoustic event. The tour will also include a special performance in New York [...]

In a post at the Telefon Tel Aviv MySpace page Joshua Eustis, half of the duo, posted the following:
It breaks my heart to inform you all that Charlie Cooper, my better half in Telefon Tel Aviv, passed away on January 22nd.
We have been friends since high school, and began making records together a decade ago. [...]

Lykke Li has just posted a new video for her track “Tonight” off of her album Young Novels. The video basically consists of her staring into the camera, and not a whole lot else. Or maybe something crazy happens at the end, you’ll have to watch to find out. Because only a crazy, maniacally egocentric [...]

Stereogum has revealed that Bowie himself has chosen TV on the Radio to cover “Heroes” for an upcoming release where iconic artists choose a song from their back-catalog and then pick a newer act to cover it. Well, Bowie has made his choice, and it’s the title of the album to boot. You can hear [...]