Word comes from a Drawer B commenter that Crystal Castles “borrowed” a lot of their sounds from the Chiptune community (Lo-bat in particular) and apparently also appropriated the image of Madonna with a black eye from an uncredited artist.
“Crystal Castles has been getting a lot press using the image of getting sounds nobody [...]

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For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they’ve created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns of raw data, including each song’s duration, [...]

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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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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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I’ve been reading some ho-hum impressions of Scarlett Johansson’s debut single, “Falling Down”, and, after listening myself, I must say I’m sort of surprised by the complaints. It’s nowhere near as meh as people are saying. I was expecting it to be horrible based on some of the hyperbolic headlines. Granted, it’s not great. It’s [...]

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Yesterday, a friend asked what I had been listening to lately. My mind went blank. We had discussed Crystal Castles earlier, but I couldn’t think of anything else. Of course, it wasn’t for lack of listening that I couldn’t name anyone in particular. I listen to music all the time. [...]

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Ready for Summer? Apparently Summerville, South Carolina is a good place to start. Check out the retro summer sounds of The Explorers Club. “The band draws on the soul-satisfying vocal style made famous by the Beach Boys and the Association, and pairs it with arrangements patented by the likes of Phil Spector, the [...]

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A new release on TEENBEAT? In 2008? From Bridget Cross and featuring Mark Robinson and Phil Krauth? WTF?! I’m not complaining or anything, but WTF?! Time to walk down the Teenbeat memory lane, I guess. (via)
Maybe It’s Reno - Gravestones

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“The National as seen through the lens of Vincent Moon of La Blogotheque fame.” (via)

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Chuck Klosterman tells it like it is.
“People didn’t stop buying albums because they were philosophically opposed to how the rock business operated, and they didn’t stop buying albums because the Internet is changing the relationship between capitalism and art. People stopped buying albums because they wanted the fucking money. It’s complicated, but it’s not.”

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Get Better, from Re-Arrange Us. (For Pat D.)

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Nice mix of songs that are 2 minutes and 42 seconds long. Including classics like There She Goes, What She Said, Echos Myron and Lovely Rita, among others. (via Wired, Wired’s playlist)

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Merge is giving away The Rosebuds remix album, Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep (Night of the Furies Remixed).
“Night of the Furies contained songs of despair and loss that roused friends of the band to present them with personal reconstructions of these dark tales. The resulting assortment of dance tunes and lullabies delighted Ivan and Kelly, and [...]

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An Illustrated Discography of The Smiths and Morrissey.

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“Last.fm announced today that Portishead’s long-awaited new album, Third, will be made exclusively available on the site, in its entirety, for free from April 21, a week before its official release.”
Hasn’t everyone that wanted to hear it already heard it, since it leaked on to the interwebs about a month ago?

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“Deschanel, who plays keyboards and sometimes drums in the band, joins Fresh Air to discuss her no-longer-secret life as a singer and songwriter, and the new album from She and Him, titled Volume One. “

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