Rumors are swirling about the forthcoming My Bloody Valentine reunion, which may or may not include original drummer Colm O’Ciosoig. But The Listening Post has updated its original post on the matter, stating that an inside “source” has confirmed that O’Ciosoig is joining the rest of the band in LA in preparation for the [...]

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Chicago’s Public Radio beacon Sound Opinions recently featured Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk. “This week the sample-based collage artist joins Jim and Greg for a discussion about dance parties, biomedicine and running from the law.”
The Podcast is available here.

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I already possess the Pink Floyd albums I care to own, but this advert for the Box Set makes the collection quite enticing, to say the least.

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I just caught a performance by Japan’s YMCK. It was like playing Nintendo for an hour. In fact, the performance of 8 bit music was replete with entertaining 8 bit visuals, including a short history of 8 bit technology. Domo arigato gozaimashita!

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After 14 years of shunning the media, Daft Punk have apparently become extraverts. WTF? Indeed, NME and assorted other news orgs are reporting that Daft Punk crashed the Grammys to back up Kanye’s performance of Stronger. Le Sigh. Video Here.

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My feedreader floweth over with mentions of The Bell in the last few weeks. The album “Make Some Quiet” comes out February 12th. Nothing earth shattering, sonically spectacular or even mind-blowing, just catchy power-pop that for some strange reason reminds me of The Stills debut album (in a good way). Muzzle of [...]

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I’ve completely fallen down on my self-appointed job of finding hidden gems on MySpace. I guess I need to be more diligent in bookmarking my travels across the MySpace musicsphere. Anyhow, here is Chicago’s Plane (MySpace). Their list of “influences” includes the usual suspects like “Joy Division, Guided by Voices, The Cure, [...]

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More from Mum @ MySpace and their site.

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In honor of Feist’s Grammy Nominations, here is K-Os’s reworking of her hit “Mushaboom” from the album Let It Die. (yes, I know the grammy nods are for her recent album, The Reminder.)
Mushaboom - (K-Os mix)

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I’ve been on the fence about Kate Nash for a while, since my initial perception of her as a Lily Allen knock-off left a bad taste in my mouth, but I’ve been won over by this song, which is starting to get some airplay on Sirius’ Left of Center. I’m a sucker for her thick [...]

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With the news of Beck’s reissued deluxe edition of his seminal Odelay having misprinted lyrics comes the discovery that, well, the lyrics are meaningless, anyway. Evidently, while recording Odelay, Beck laid down some scratch lyrics as placeholders, which typified his nonsensical beat-poet free-style jargon, but he liked the temporary lyrics so much that he [...]

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Joe Queenan has an amusing piece in the Guardian today about what to do with over-the-hill rock stars. The impetus for his musings stems from the impending 50th birthdays of Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Prince this year. Rock/pop music is the only genre where age becomes an irreversible stigma, whereas in, say, Blues age [...]

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Well, they made the decision too easy for me this year: not going. Metallica? Pearl Jam? Jack Johnson? Don’t care, don’t care, and why??? After two years of phenomenal line-ups, Bonnaroo had to slip up eventually, and after rumors of a possible appearance by Led Zeppelin led to an invariably anti-climactic line-up announcement with [...]

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Metafilter says: “The band Beirut released the Flying Club Cup on October 9th, and La Blogothèque has filmed unique, one take, on the spot, mostly public ‘music videos‘ of each track.”
1- Nantes
2- Sunday Smile
3- Guyamas Sonora
List continues at Metafilter.

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Because it is Friday and rainy and, well, you don’t really need a reason to listen to some M83, do you?

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Via the blog Pasta Primavera comes this reworking of Lekman’s “I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You” by Chicago’s Spoolwork. The original can be found on Lekman’s 2007 release Night Falls Over Kortedala (which just so happened to be my favorite record of ‘07).
Jens Lekman - I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love [...]

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It’s an odd marketing strategy to break up before the release of your first new album in 24 years, but, as bassist David J reveals, the group’s chemistry “was so volatile we actually split up.” Going Away White is out March 11, and J believes that “the record definitely feels like a final statement.” [...]

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After yesterday’s rather tame comments from Graham Coxon regarding why the Blur reunion didn’t happen as a result of a band lunch meeting, Damon Albarn has spoken up on the subject with a bit more drama, claiming that the rest of Blur “hate” him and don’t want to work with him. I’ve never gotten [...]

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