(downloadable .mp4 video 240×176 sans watermark available here. And here’s an mp3 from the video of the performance.)

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Seattle’s Sub Pop Records is taking digital distribution into its own hands with a new mp3 shop. Its current online catalog is running 200 albums deep. No individual track purchases are available yet, and the encoding is only 192kbps. But, Sub Pop is open to criticism and welcomes user feedback to help improve the store. Albums are [...]

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Radiohead released a testcast last night in anticipation of a forthcoming webcast. After some behind the scenes hijinks, which included some DJ-ing and weird graphical interludes, the band performed Bjork’s “Unravel” live in a studio. It’s Thom Yorke’s favorite song of all time. The proper webcast is scheduled for tonight between 9pm and 12am (GMT).

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Hideously awful cover of Nirvana’s ubiquitous hit proves that music does indeed cross all cultural barriers, even when it sounds like shit. (via Guardian)

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Clover, the little-known backing band that played on Elvis Costello’s debut, My Aim Is True, some thirty years ago is reuniting with Costello for the first time since they all left the studio when the album wrapped. The cause is for Costello’s long-time friend and fellow musician, Austin De Lone, whose son suffers from “Prader-Willi [...]

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Arctic Monkeys take a subtle shot at miming in videos with a live-in-the-studio version of “Teddy Picker” off Favourite Worst Nightmare. This video destroys the borderline un-ironic piss-take that was the “Brainstorm” video. Christ, that was a mess. Still, Alex Turner is hands-down one of the cleverest lyricists going. This record has remained in my [...]

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More less-than-reliable news has surfaced claiming that things might be brewing in the My Bloody Valentine camp. Billboard is sourcing the Daily Swarm with the scoop that Kevin Shields has indirectly confirmed that My Bloody Valentine will release new music by the end of this year. He appeared in an interview segment with The [...]

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News of Pete Doherty’s recent “recovery” from drug addiction was taken with exaggerated rolls of the eyes the world over. It was more than a little disingenuous to expect people to buy news that Britain’s most willfully notorious junkie was suddenly all cleaned up. Doherty has forced cynicism upon his press with blatant and comical setbacks [...]

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Prince is an asshole. I’ve never heard of a celebrity who made it so difficult to be a fan. He won’t even let his fans call themselves fans. They’re “fams.” Now he’s threatening to sue said “fams” for posting pictures their tattoos if they bear his royal likeness. What a cock. I realize Prince has always restricted access [...]

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Taking a cue from Radiohead’s “name your price” In Rainbows stunt, Paste Magazine is offering a similar deal for a one-year subscription (min: $1). Economists would tell you that paying anything more than you are required is foolish; but what do they know.

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I finally lost my Morrissey virginity last night in Greenville, SC after having missed him countless times over the years, and it was so well worth the wait. I was expecting a far less energetic performance for some reason (maybe since Ringleader of the Tormentors lacked the punch of You Are the Quarry). But his [...]

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“…the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band. Although available information was limited, the graph is data rich in representing time since original recording, recording artist, release name/date and label. Various graphical techniques employed (eg. radiating dots) allowed for data [...]

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Parlophone isn’t just going to sit back and watch Radiohead rake in all the money now that the band has jettisoned the mothership. The ousted label already has plans for a box set, comprised of all six of Radiohead’s studio albums, which will be available on December 10 via the band’s website. The set will also [...]

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With its new record, Distortion, out in January via Nonesuch, The Magnetic Fields have set up a brief tour to help spread the word. The dates are slim pickins, but at least they are playing multiple shows in each town- said towns just happen to be very, very far away from the South. 

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“YouTube presents the world premiere of the music video for “100 Days, 100 Nights” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the title song from the album, available in stores offline and online. The video was directed by Adam Elias Buncher using two vintage TV cameras bought on E-Bay for $50 dollars each. Shows how much [...]

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Deliberately amateurish cartoon psychedelia doesn’t quite cover how wildly abnormal this video. It looks like decades-old homemade cut and paste art- stilted and trippy in its androgynous ambiguity. Its non-linear storyline feeds off randomness and eccentricity as much as the song itself does. This is the highlight of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? for [...]

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This video is beyond insane. Bikini-clad models prance on a stage, gorging on ketchup, cash, and jewelry, climaxing in a slow-motion montage of neon puke. Awesome.

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Jesus, this is painful to sit through. Winehouse stumbles through the title track of her second album with amateurish, off-key rambles, awkward dance moves, and a general dazed look in her eyes. Granted, none of it was too far from normal for her, but this was clearly far from her best day. You’d think by [...]

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Lingerie model Jeanette Sliwinski was found guilty of “reckless homicide” for slamming her car into another car containing Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist and two friends, who were stopped at a red light on their way to lunch on July 14, 2005. Although, the judge rejected an insanity plea, Sliwinski’s defense successfully argued that she was [...]

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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks, a reunited Sex Pistols played Jay Leno last night, which is punk as fuck, obviously. And this candy-ass version of “Anarchy in the UK” makes Motley Crue’s utter shit version sound like vintage punk. (via Brooklyn Vegan)

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