Tired of Wyatting? Drag City’s prison bitch Domino Recording Company is scheduled to release the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Comicopera – his first solo effort since 2003’s Cuckooland – as early as the 24th of next month. Regarding the weird-even-for-him title, Wyatt had this to say: “Greeks divided things into Comedy and Tragedy, and Comedy didn’t […]

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Stream “Skin Divers” here. This is the highest quality leak from Duran Duran’s forthcoming Red Carpet Massacre. There’s been much debate about the band’s new direction, but to me “Skin Divers” is the most polarizing new song yet to surface. It’s a dark and sleazy club track and another Timbaland collaboration with the inevitable arsenal of repetitive, machinated […]

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The Arcade Fire just released a 7″ on Merge for “No Cars Go”, a song originally off the band’s debut EP that was re-recorded for Neon Bible in a far more grandiose manner. The b-side, “Surf City Eastern Bloc”, is also an older song that’s finally been put to tape. It’s worlds more intimate than […]

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Myspace blogs have been so catty lately. In all fairness Portishead’s Geoff Barrow took the first shot at Lily Allen producer Mark Ronson, completely unprovoked. And now producer Ronson has responded in kind, albeit somewhat more respectfully seeing as how he actually gives Barrow some credit: Dear Geoffrey In reference to your blog insulting my “muzak”, grow the fuck […]

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Tom Waits’ van broke down on tour in 1977, so he dropped by Fernwood Tonight to sing “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” An deliberately awkward interview by Martin Mull and Fred Willard follows, and Waits is full of gold as usual: “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

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Spike Jonze interviews M.I.A. for Vice TV in the first bit of a 6-part series. It’s a very laid-back piece in which they ride around in a car, discussing trivialities like how M.I.A.’s hairdresser, Shemkee, cut her hair while on Ketamine. Jonze and M.I.A. are obviously friends and comfortable around each other, and, despite Jonze’s […]

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Who better to design a t-shirt celebrating the release of Anton Corbijn’s Joy Division biopic, Control, than the man who designed the cover of Unknown Pleasures himself? Fashion designer Paul Smith has commissioned acclaimed graphic designer Peter Saville, who was art director and co-founder of Factory Records, to design a limited edition t-shirt for the launch of Corbijn’s […]

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