Ed O’Brien – guitar Liam Finn – guitar Jeff Tweedy – vocals/guitar John Stirratt – bass Phil Selway – drums Johnny Marr – guitar (via)

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I can barely bring myself to comment on this it’s so disheartening. The Led Zeppelin rumor mill is one of the most prolific and fickle gossip topics to infect every news feeder imaginable. The back and forth over whether the band would ever play again was beaten into the ground in 2007 but eventually came […]

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My friend Robert over at The Daily Sabbatical has posted a self-proclaimed rant against paying for digital music. He makes some very good points: “When you buy a CD, you have an asset that retains some value. You can sell it when you are hard up for cash or when you simply want different music. […]

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Tim Jonze half-slags off a slew of bands who rip off Joy Division by way of Joy Division imitators in a piece entitled “Songs ripping off songs ripping off Joy Division.” Ha. The watered-down effect is inevitable with iconic bands, but it grows more amusing as the degrees separate further. Editors is to Joy Division […]

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Community service worker, jailer of escorts, and 80’s pop icon, Boy George, shilling overseas for Takara Shuzo. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on in these ads. They are disturbingly bizarre. I guess it pays. There’s no way this would sell soft drinks in America. I am constantly intrigued by Japanese aesthetics.

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Jason Schwartzman’s musical moniker, Coconut Records, has a new album coming out this coming Tuesday entitled Davy. If you were a fan of his last record, Nighttiming, then the first single, “Microphone”, will undoubtedly lure you back for more. Schwartzman has an ear for instantly hummable tunes and just exudes charm. I wish he didn’t […]

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Working on the follow-up to last year’s Antidotes without producer David Sitek (of TV on the Radio), Foals are trying to avoid the delay most new bands succumb to in releasing that dreaded second record. Frontman Yannis Philippakis posted some of the band’s new ideas on MySpace last Sunday, saying thus: "Anyway I figured it’s […]

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