(downloadable .mp4 video 240×176 sans watermark available here. And here’s an mp3 from the video of the performance.)

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Seattle’s Sub Pop Records is taking digital distribution into its own hands with a new mp3 shop. Its current online catalog is running 200 albums deep. No individual track purchases are available yet, and the encoding is only 192kbps. But, Sub Pop is open to criticism and welcomes user feedback to help improve the store. Albums are priced […]

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Radiohead released a testcast last night in anticipation of a forthcoming webcast. After some behind the scenes hijinks, which included some DJ-ing and weird graphical interludes, the band performed Bjork’s “Unravel” live in a studio. It’s Thom Yorke’s favorite song of all time. The proper webcast is scheduled for tonight between 9pm and 12am (GMT).

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Hideously awful cover of Nirvana’s ubiquitous hit proves that music does indeed cross all cultural barriers, even when it sounds like shit. (via Guardian)

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Clover, the little-known backing band that played on Elvis Costello’s debut, My Aim Is True, some thirty years ago is reuniting with Costello for the first time since they all left the studio when the album wrapped. The cause is for Costello’s long-time friend and fellow musician, Austin De Lone, whose son suffers from “Prader-Willi […]

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Arctic Monkeys take a subtle shot at miming in videos with a live-in-the-studio version of “Teddy Picker” off Favourite Worst Nightmare. This video destroys the borderline un-ironic piss-take that was the “Brainstorm” video. Christ, that was a mess. Still, Alex Turner is hands-down one of the cleverest lyricists going. This record has remained in my […]

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More less-than-reliable news has surfaced claiming that things might be brewing in the My Bloody Valentine camp. Billboard is sourcing the Daily Swarm with the scoop that Kevin Shields has indirectly confirmed that My Bloody Valentine will release new music by the end of this year. He appeared in an interview segment with The Make-Up’s […]

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