From the album ‘Knowle West Boy’ due in September on these fair shores. There’s a remix contest, too. Everybody’s got a remix contest these days, don’t they. Crowdsourcing the remix is so 2008.
(via Wired)

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As most every other blog is reporting, The Faint are touring in support of their forthcoming album, Fasciinatiion.
Tour Dates:
7/27 - Des Moines, IA @ Peoples Court
7/28 - Sioux Falls, SD @ Ramkota Annex
7/29 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
7/30 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue
7/31 - Boise, ID @ Big Easy Boise
8/1 [...]

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Hot on the heels of Muxtape comes a single serving solution to the perennial question “what are you listening to…” It’s as easy as posting a twitter update, or so they say and the music is sourced from songza, et al. so there’s no uploading. If you want to know more, read this.

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The weather didn’t at all cooperate with Radiohead’s fans last night and they’re sharing their horrific experiences online today.
Some folks didn’t even make it inside.
Pasta Primavera’s got an amazing photo from the parking lot.
Others probably wish they hadn’t…
You know when there us a huge storm with lightening and thunder and it pours down [...]

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Seems I’m not the only one curious about the AT&T Commercial that sounds an awful lot like someone covering that Beta Band song “Squares.” Kevmo did the hard work and dug up the original track from the ’70s group Wallace Collection. Thanks, Kev!
(title is a play on the quote from High Fidelity regarding the [...]

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Andrew Bird’s blog over at the New York Times discusses the recording process and all of the myriad decisions made that eventually “make a song.”
We discuss a lot of things to help us get the songs just right — like not hitting cymbals because the crashes can be “cheap thrills.” Instead we favored the dark, [...]

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New video from The Kills, Last Day Of Magic. Something about The Kills really appeals to me, but I also tend to lose interest pretty quickly. I have/had the same problem with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Love of Diagrams to some extent.

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New Urban Outfitters video features We Own The Sky. Is this a “sellout?” I really don’t know. Not exactly a commercial, but it does feature pretty prominently on the front page of their site.
They featured She & Him recently as well. (via)

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In the case of Ting Tings, or anyone that’s ever sold their music to Apple, accepting the “sellout” is probably worth the bling that rolls in after being in an iPod commercial. See also: Feist, CSS, et al. Now if only we could get Chris Knox an iPod commercial. Or Tom Waits. [...]

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Mario’s got a new album coming out June 8. You can sample a track at MySpace. (Looks like a few dates are planned around the release, including a stop at DC’s Red & Black.)

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If you didn’t dig on the animated video, here’s a slightly more meatspace take on the catchy tune, Bag of Hammers. It also helps to confirm that Thao is indeed female, if you were wondering.

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For a band that once released a new 7″ vinyl single every month for an entire year, going completely digital must feel like a shock to the system, but The Wedding Present has succumbed to technology with the release of “The Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend”, a true to form [...]

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After a successful and tasteful resurgence, the reunited original line-up of Gang of Four has been cut in half, as bassist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham have quit due to time constraints. Allen posted an amicable missive on his blog, explaining his decision:
“At the beginning of April, I decided that I could no [...]

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Instead of yelling “Sellout,” in this case I actually found Faded Paper Figures via the above Lexus commercial. (via)

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I’ve grown up resignedly accepting the fact that there are some bands I’ll just never get to see live. Not because they’re dead, but because they had bad break ups or whatever various and sundry reasons caused their demise. Talking Heads is one example. Well, a few exceptions have creeped up on me over [...]

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Elvis Costello’s been very public about his annoyance with making records in today’s iPod culture of instant consumption, so to acknowledge the impending death of the compact disc, Costello has issued his new record, Momofuku (explanation here), in only digital and vinyl formats. That’s right, no CD’s. So, he’s taking care of the hardcore [...]

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Tom Waits is such a bad ass. For one thing, you never have to worry about hearing a Tom Waits song played during a commercial for nachos, as he is staunchly against using his music to sell products. The cryptically funny troubadour rarely tours, but I was lucky enough to catch him on a rare [...]

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“Three Women”, the infectiously poppy new Stereolab video over at Pitchfork.tv, is a crash course in psychedelic animation. This is the first single off the band’s forthcoming Chemical Chords LP due out August 19th on Too Pure. Pitchfork also recently spoke with guitarist Tim Gane about the band’s first new album in four years and [...]

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