Courtesy:Pitchfork On New Year’s Eve, the Flaming Lips are set to turn Oklahoma City’s Cox Center into the capital of Weirdsville, U.S.A. when they bring their annual Freakout music-and-lights explosion to their hometown. Along with a standard Lips set and “the world’s biggest balloon drop,” the band will ring in 2010 by playing Pink Floyd’s […]
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More on Flaming Lips’ Dark Side escapades
December 19th, 2009 
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Comments Off on More on Flaming Lips’ Dark Side escapadesJohn Frusciante Quits RHCP
December 17th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork For many of us, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has long been the most likable thing about the group. A few years back, I watched him cover Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” in front of a festival crowd for no apparent reason, and it made for the best moment of the […]
Chris Feinstein (Bassist for Ryan Adams & the Cardinals) Passes away
December 17th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Jambands.com Bassist Chris Feinstein has passed away. While details remain scant, it is believed he passed away at his Manhattan home in the early hours of Monday morning. He was 42.Feinstein was most recently known for his role in Ryan Adams & The Cardinals which he joined in 2006, replacing original bassist Catherine Popper. […]
Posted in News Tags: chris feinstein, ryan adams Comments Off on Chris Feinstein (Bassist for Ryan Adams & the Cardinals) Passes awayFull Song from White Stripes Tour Doc
December 15th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork Last week, we told you all about the mega White Stripes live box set centered around Under Great White Northern Lights, the documentary chronicling their 2007 Canadian tour. Now you can watch a small portion of the film– click below to see Jack and Meg rip through their debut single, “Let’s Shake Hands”. […]
Posted in News Tags: jack white, white stripes Comments Off on Full Song from White Stripes Tour DocDeerhunter dig up an old CD-R
December 15th, 2009 Chris Bradford Cox: “Responding to several requests I have dug up an old copy of this 2005 Deerhunter CD-R. It features only me and Moses and is very experimental in nature. This was during our “tape phase” when we would often play shows as a duo (or as a trio with colin) playing only tape machines […]
On The Rise: Harlem
December 11th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Stereogum Austin trio Harlem opened the Emo’s show last night that found Jay Reatard getting jumped by a couple of angry (and drunken) show-goers. The guys are known for their frantic live shows, so maybe they’re to blame for getting the crowd worked up into such a froth? Who knows, but you can take […]
Past Lives (Three former members of Blood Brothers) Debut Album
December 10th, 2009 Chris Artist: Past Lives Album: Tapestry of Webs Release Date: February 23 Label: Suicide Squeeze Tracklist: 01 Paralyzer 02 Falling Spikes 03 Past Lives 04 Don’t Let the Ashes Fill Your Eyes 05 Deep in the Valley 06 K Hole 07 Hex Takes Hold 08 Vanishing Twin 09 Hospital White 10 At Rest 11 Aerosol Bouquet […]
Posted in News Tags: Blood Brothers, past lives Comments Off on Past Lives (Three former members of Blood Brothers) Debut AlbumSolo album from Sigur Rós frontman
December 8th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork The debut solo LP from impossibly high-voiced Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson, Go, is set to hit retail locations of all sorts on March 23 courtesy of XL. Based on the wildly symphonic new track “Boy Lilikoi” (available for download at Jónsi’s site), Go does not sound like some half-assed side project. If […]
Posted in News Tags: Björk, grizzly bear, Jónsi Birgisson, sigur ros Comments Off on Solo album from Sigur Rós frontmanGirl Talk Reissue
December 8th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork The ADD mash-up monster Greg Gillis, known to the world as Girl Talk, made his name with the 2006 album Night Ripper, a marathon of chopped-up pop samples that moved so quickly between songs and genres that we all had to struggle to keep up. On December 8, Illegal Art will issue Night […]
Help Deakin get to Africa!
December 8th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork Joshua Dibb, better known as part-time Animal Collective member Deakin (or Deacon), wants to go to Africa. He’s been invited to play at the Festival in the Desert, which goes down January 7-9 in Essakane, Mali. The problem: The Festival in the Desert folks can’t pay for Dibb’s international travel. So Dibb has […]
Rolling Stone to open restaurant chain
December 5th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Andrew Clark, Guardian.uk The legendary music aficionados’ magazine Rolling Stone is getting into the food business by opening a Los Angeles restaurant that could, if successful, be the beginning of a themed chain to rival the likes of Planet Hollywood and the Hard Rock Cafe. Rolling Stone’s publisher, Jann Wenner, announced that the publication […]
Kid Cudi raps over Vampire Weekend
December 5th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork He’s already collaborated with MGMT and Ratatat and big-upped Band of Horses, so it’s no surprise to find even more evidence that Cleveland upstart rapper Kid Cudi is an indie rock head, on his new track “Cudderisback”. There’s still a pleasant frisson to hearing Cudi rapping over the skeletal intro to “Ottoman”, Vampire […]