Paul McCartney is playing a “secret” show at Amoeba Records in Hollywood tomorrow night to promote Memory Almost Full– his new album on the Starbucks label, Hear Music. A limited number of wristbands are being given away at 12:30 p.m. at Amoeba, while 5 pairs are up for grabs at paulmccartney.com. Doors for the show […]

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Winehouse’s newest video is directed by David LaChapelle. It’s currently my favorite song off Back to Black. I always expect the chorus to break out into “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

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Interpol has thrown certainly some curve balls in the past with its videos, particularly the one for the “Evil” single, and “The Heinrich Maneuver” is equally strange and unexpected. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it yet.

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Riding high off the success of his inarguably great new record, The Magic Position, Patrick Wolf has posed for the fall 2007 Burberry campaign shot by Mario Testino. As interesting as it is to see him not dressed as a rainbow-flavored unicorn, Mr. Wolf is still shilling for the man, which is somewhat disappointing.

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Ex-Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin is set to release his solo debut Bolts of Melody on Hi-Speed Soul. Compared to Swervedriver, Franklin’s solo work is much more intimate and low-key with acoustic guitars replacing the shoe-gaze fuzz. It’s spacey and melodic and shouldn’t be too unfamiliar to Swervedriver fans. Adam Franklin – “Seize the Day” – […]

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With all the hoopla over the re-release of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, you’d think the band would have a new record ready (despite last year’s Rather Ripped being far underrated). Sonic Youth has never really worked well in conjunction with the corporate machine, so it’s not really surprising that there’s no new record to promote. […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/mWmdt4Zn0-o” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Uhh, this is beyond bizarre. This is a live video of The Cure performing, perhaps, the most depressing of all of Robert Smith’s songs, “Siamese Twins”, from the equally chipper Pornography record, while the Royal Ballet dances on stage with them. Crazy.

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