The Guardian conducts an all-too-brief interview with Echo & The Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch, who has only slightly tamed his once-notoriously bloated ego. His quotations have always been golden, bordering on parody: 
Are you fashionable?I am fashion.

Right. But I am with him 100% here:

What’s the greatest threat to music today?People thinking that songs are [...]

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I know it pays the bills and everything to sell the remains of your dignity to soulless corporations, but would you really want a classic song off your defining early LP associated with Grade D beef that’s barely fit for human consumption? It’s probably a clever marketing ploy, since Joe Jackson has a new [...]

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The new video from Moby’s upcoming album Last Night (out April 1 on Mute). Directed by Andreas Nilsson.

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Albums are ranked solely based on listening habits.
Eric Greenwood:
1. Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Polyvinyl
This could have been a catastrophe. It’s an indulgent morass of diary-style lyrics so severely private it’s often too uncomfortable to ingest were it not for the countless hooks, layered, pitch-perfect harmonies, and unforgettably catchy synth riffs. I [...]

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music is art has a nice post regarding the Springsteen classic “I’m on fire” which includes some amazing cover versions from Electrelane, Bat for Lashes, as well as Tori Amos. (via Hype Machine)

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Great post over at Metafilter with links to the Flying Nun Documentary in 9 parts (on youtube) covering the ’80s and ’90s Flying Nun / Neusyland sound. The post also includes a treasure trove of You Tubery for fans of kiwi music, including The Clean, Straitjacket Fits, Toy Love, Chris Knox, The Verlaines, The [...]

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“This animation was created by all the students in COMS274 Intermedia I, Dept of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Fall 2007. Working in Flash, all 64 students rotoscoped 1-3 seconds of video each, over a period of three weeks. (Most of them had never used Flash before.)”
Via and Via Drawn.ca

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I’m not a fan of mashups (so sue me!), but for those out there that like their Interpol with a bit of M.I.A. or perhaps their Soulja Boy with some Belinda Carlisle, do check out A Plus D.
Mammoth Boys

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So Trent, he of NiN fame, recently blogged the results of his “post-In Rainbows” Saul Williams Niggy Tardust experiment with the name-your-own-price record release concept. Poor Trent is disheartened, it seems. He says that 28,322 people paid $5 for it and about 154,449 just downloaded the album. No idea how many snagged [...]

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#SPLIT - JENS LEKMAN - Into EternityUploaded by lablogotheque
(take-away shows)

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No idea if this works, but apparently an app has been released into the tubes that allows one to download any manner of flash embedded tunes from sites like Pandora, MySpace, et al. Bad name - FreeMusicZilla - interesting concept.

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