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Black Francis, Cassettes Won't Listen, Dean & Britta and More in on Cure Tribute + Streams

Bloc Festival Names Initial 2009 Line Up

All Tomorrow's Parties Add More Names to 2009 Shows

Clinic and the Planetarium of the Soul

Say It Ain't So -- Nic Harcourt Will Stop Doing Morning Becomes Eclectic At KCRW

Nick Cave Interview and Performance on Sound Opinions

BRMC Release of The Effects Of 333

Beirut Will Surface in 2009 with Two EPs

The National to Curate New Red Hot Compilation

What Made Milwaukee Famous Offer Free EP

The Elephant 6 Orchestra In Chicago

Animal Collective Announce U.S. Shows in January

Glastonbury Starts to Build 2009 Line Up

FSOL Return to the Stage in 2009

MySpace Open to the Idea of a MySpace MP3 Player

Phosphorescent Start November Tour of the South

Telepathe Work With Dave Sitek on New Album

William Elliott Whitmore: Don't Box Him In

New music this week on Spacelab Radio

Glastonbury Festival Failed to Makey Money in 2008

The Party's Over: Free is Out, Paid Services Are In

Flying Lotus Rolls Out Los Angeles EP Number Two

Deerhunter Give Away Peel Sessions Tribute

Matt & Kim Plan for a Big 2009

All Tomorrow's Parties Announces 2009 Festivals

Anti- Records Signs N.A.S.A.

M83 Vinyl Reissues Coming In November, Tour Dates

No Age Announce New Single for November

Psychic Ills Get Otherworldly on New Album

UK Music Aims to End British Piracy, P2P, Old Ways of the Industry

The Black Keys Live DVD from Portland and ZZ Top

Richard Hawley Announces Christmas Show ... In A Cave

Parts & Labor Set Fall/Winter Tour Dates

M. Ward Announces New Album for 2009

Colin Meloy ... the Man, the Musician, the ... Musical Maker

Matisyahu Looking Towards a Big Year with New Material

David Byrne & Brian Eno Album Gets Release Date, Tour

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem Working on Side Project

Facebook Faces the Inevetiable: Music

Bon Iver Adds More Shows for December

Radiohead's Doing Very Well With In Rainbows Release

Nick Cave to Present 2009 Turner Prize

Winter Music Conference 2009 Dates Announced

Icy Demons Tour In November

Low's Coming Over With A New Christmas Single

MySpace Becomes Your Space With Addition of IODA Artists

Greg Dulli Readies Solo Acoustic Gig Release

iLike Would Like to Work With TuneCore

Magnolia Electric Co. Tour to Ready for New Album

Death Cab for Cutie Reissue Debut Album

Iceland Airwaves Festival Is On!

Adult. Bring Halloween Early with Horror Film

Bradford Cox Posts New Atlas Sound EP

Sub Pop Signs Vetiver for New Album

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
and the Way Back Machine

Despite the Country's Collapse, Iceland Airwaves Festival Is On!

Björk and Thom Yorke Will Release a Song to
Promote Protecting Iceland's Environment

Now It's Really Happening:
New Animal Collective Album In 2009

Gang Gang Dance Dance as the World Goes Down

More, More, MORE: Sony Completes Deal with BMG

Coachella Announces 2009 Dates

Nick Cave to Curate Australian ATP; Book, Soundtrack On the Way

The Otherworldly Leila

Magnolia Electric Co. Tour U.S.
in Preparation for New Album

Death Cab for Cutie’s Anniversary Edition Reissue
of Something About Airplanes

Learning to Love Lovvers

Suddenly, the World Is Full of Hot Chip

When Musicians Organize:
The Featured Artists Coalition Gets Some High Profile Members

Mint Records Gets to Steppin' with New Online Service

Anticon Signs Anathallo

Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 Passes Another Milestone

iTunes Lives to See Another Day

A.C. Newman Will Bounce New Music In 2009

Clap Your Hands For Cut Off Your Hands

Congress Passes the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008

MySpace Music Still Missing Indie Labels

Flaming Lips Christmas On Mars CD/DVD Details

Caribou Wins Polaris Music Prize

Mira Calix To Release New Commissions on Warp Records

The Return of Muxtape

Radiohead Launches Reckoner Remix Project, You'll Pay to Play

Silversun Pickups Are In the Studio, New Album S(w)oon

Mogwai Cancel North American Tour Dates Due to Illness

The Internationalist:
White Hinterland Get French on New EP

Sub Pop Announce Daniel Martin Moore
Release Details

Don't Call It A Comback:
Gorillaz Are Ready to Make A New Album

Radiohead To Do Another Remix Project

TV on the Radio Add European
Tour Dates + New Video

Measure This: The Pica Beats

Hauschka, Tom Brosseau Go Stateside
on New Tour + Video

Video: TV On the Radio - Golden Age

WFMU to Webcast My Bloody Valentine's ATP NY

The Elephant 6 Collective and Their Holiday Surprise Tour

Marnie Stern Posts New Music For Her Album
With an Incredibly Long Title

The Sea And Cake Announce Fall Tour

Best Buy Nabs Napster

The Stills announce Canadian and UK tour dates

Arctic Monkeys Get Film and DVD Release for Show at the Apollo

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem Sounds Better Than Its Name

Sunset Rubdown Start Tour Today

Radiohead Are Already Working on a New Album

The Coathangers Hang Their Hat on
Suicide Squeeze Records

OiNK Founder Charged by Police,
What's the Future of Torrents?

The Internationalist: Rodrigo y Gabriela Live In Japan

Elbow Wins the 2008 Mercury Prize for
The Seldom Seen Kid

Holy Toreador! Sonic Youth Sign
With Matador Records

Dressy Bessy are Ready for a BIG Fall Tour

Wilderness Want to Take You to (k)no(w)here

There Will Always Be Sex Pistols on DVD

Tim Exile Returns From Exile

There's an Explosion of
Danielson Material Coming

Wolf Parade Lands November U.S. Tour Dates

After the Launch: Taking Google Chrome for a Test Drive

Apple and the Let's Rock Event: What will They Release?

Radiohead Santa Barbara Show is Coming to NPR on Monday

Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band Add Shows to Fall U.S. Tour

They may be broken, but don't fix 'em: The Broken West and Now or Heaven

Trap This: Blitzen Trapper Add Mor
Shows to Fall Schedule

Kieran Hebden And Steve Reid Tell the Story of New York on NYC

Wordless Music Series Returns

Awesome Color and Their
Awesome Tour Dates

Metric Stay Independent for the Time Being

Still No Date for The Pirate Bay Trial

Glastonbury Festival Announces 2009 Tickets

Sasha Will Tour North America This Fall

Comcast Bites Back With a Data Cap on Internet Downloads

CMJ Adds More Artists to CMJ Marathon Lineup

Stars Announce Sad Robot EP, Free MP3, Tour Dates for You and Me

My Bloody Valentine, In Your Pocket

The Gift that Keeps on Giving:
Merge Announces 14 Volume Box Set Subscription for Anniversary

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
New Gardenia Single & Video

YACHT Signs on DFA with New EP, Album, Video

Okkervil River Launch The Stand Ins Video Project

Xiu Xiu Want You

Squarepusher Wants to Give You A Souvenir

Decemberists Get Political on Singles Series

International Music Hot Spot: Glasgow, Scotland

These Arms Are Snakes Leak Song From Upcoming Album,
Tour Dates with sBACH

Neon Neon, Noah and the Whale, Others Added to Bestival

Comcast Bites Back With a Data Cap on Internet Downloads

CMJ Adds More Artists to CMJ Marathon Lineup

Stars Announce Sad Robot EP, Free MP3, Tour Dates for You and Me

My Bloody Valentine, In Your Pocket

The Gift that Keeps on Giving:
Merge Announces 14 Volume Box Set Subscription for Anniversary

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
New Gardenia Single & Video

YACHT Signs on DFA with New EP, Album, Video

Okkervil River Launch The Stand Ins Video Project

Xiu Xiu Want You

Squarepusher Wants to Give You A Souvenir

Decemberists Get Political on Singles Series

International Music Hot Spot: Glasgow, Scotland

These Arms Are Snakes Leak Song From Upcoming Album,
Tour Dates with sBACH

Neon Neon, Noah and the Whale, Others Added to Bestival

These Arms Are Snakes Leak Song From Upcoming Album,
Get Tour Dates with sBACH

Neon Neon, Noah and the Whale, Others Added to Bestival

Johann Johannsson Springs Back with Fordlândia

Old School vs. New School: Neil Young Taps Death Cab for Cutie & Wilco for Tour

What's the Deal with Muxtape and the RIAA?

2009 Oxegen Festival Tickets Go On Sale

Sian Alice Group Offer 59.59 Remix on Tour

Ooops ... Sony (Leaks?) New Walkman Info Online

Dublab Launches INTO INFINITY

The Secret Machines Release Non-Album MP3

Iceland Airwaves Announces London Airwaves Festival

Thievery Corporation Retaliate Against Radio

Ooops ... Sony (Leaks?) New Walkman Info Online in New Zealand

Embattled Pandora Struggling for Survival

CMJ Music Marathon Announces Initial Acts

Peter Bjorn and John Ready Seaside Rock

Black Mountain Announce North American Tour Dates, New Video

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Tour with Against Me!

Times New Viking Get New EP and Tour For This Fall

The Revolution Will Be Televised: Austin City Limits Gets A Webcast

Dungen Announce Fall Tour Dates

Pitchfork TV Partners with the
Independent Film Channel for New Show

Yeasayer Get A Tour of Their Very Own, With A Weather Balloon

Tegan and Sara to Promote The Con Forever

Song of the Sirens: Vivian Girls

Watch and listen now

Tricky Plans First North American Tour
In Five Years

Watch and listen now

Warner Music: We Didn't Do Well But We're OK With That

Cotton Jones Gets With Suicide Squeeze,
Now with Less Basket Ride Added

Deerhunter and Atlas Sound Will Be Universally Present
For a Long Time

Watch & listen now

Score! Yo La Tengo to Compile Film Score Projects

Sony Takes Its Chocolate Out of BMG's Peanut Butter

Black Lips Announce Fall Shows

It's High Time to Listen to Pit Er Pat

Bon Iver Get European Tour and Single

David Byrne Announces Tour Dates for Brian Eno Album, Free Download and Video

Thick Guitar Sludge: Pontiak to Release Sun on Sun

New Los Campesinos! on the Way!

Women Get Retro Modern With New Album

Portastatic Sharing Some Small History via Rarities Collection

Animal Collective Are Working on a Film Project

You Can Go Your Own Way: Be Your Own Pet Break Up

Boredoms, Gang Gang Dance To Do 88BoaDrum on 08.08.08

Fujiya & Miyagi Get U.S. Tour Dates + New MP3

Tobacco: Otherworldy, Spastic, Smooth

Audio: Deerhoof - Live in Brooklyn

Martin Atkins Wants You To Tour Smart

Deerhoof to Hoof It All Over America

The Go! Team Launch a Free! Site

New York ATP Announces Final Line Up

Growing Announce NA Tour

Nine Inch Nails Start Tour

These Are Powers Sign to Dead Oceans, Expect Noise to Ensue

Roots Manuva: Again and Again and Again and Again

These United States Will Tour the United States to Commit Crimes

Nationwide Mercury Prize Names 2008 Shortlist

Télépathique and the Opposing Forces of Punk and Bossa Nova

Sebastien Grainger Is Back In the Saddle with Saddle Creek

Parts & Labor Receive Found Sounds from Fans for Use on Receivers

TV on the Radio to Drop Dear Science, in September

Karen O Digs Native Korean Rock (and Melodramatic Popular Songs)

Drone, Reverb, and Feedback: Darker My Love

Rafter and Sweaty Magic is More than Perspiration

Cold War Kids New Online Stream

From the Basement Will Hit the Independent Film Channel

Blitzen Trapper Return from the Trail with Furr

Deerhunter Microcastle Media Explosion

Watch and listen now

Saddle Creek Signs Land of Talk

XX Teens: This Is What an Exploding Head Sounds Like

Watch and listen now

My Bloody Valentine Set List at FIB

Pop Montreal Lineup Announced

Festival Preview : FIB

Ten Kens Are Ready To Release Ten Kens

Radiohead Release Cameraless Laser Video for House of Cards

Oxford Collapse Upgrade Their Sonic Aesthetics on BITS

Juana Molina to Release Un Dia

This Weekend: P4K Festival

Secret Machines to Release Secret New Album this Fall

Video: Battles - Tonto Live

Why? Announce Fall Tour for North America

Department Of Eagles Join 4AD

Gang Gang Dance To Release Release Saint Dymphna

Lackthereof: When Your Real Project Becomes a Side Project

British Sea Power To Stage Their Own Festival

Lambchop Is a Band

Video: The Hold Steady Interview

Video: The Besnard Lakes - Devastation

Video: Lackthereof Live

Festival Preview: T in the Park

This Weekend: Oxegen Festival

Duchess Says Drive It Over the Edge

Dungen Emerge From the Dungeon With A New Album

Tv on the Radio, On Tour

The Dutchess and the Duke and the Way-Back Machine

The Kills To Tour With The Raconteurs,
Announce More Fall Shows

2008 Polaris Music Prize Names Short List

Minotaur Shock Blasts Back With
Amateur Dramatics In August Listen now

Pushing Forward & Being Truly Dressy Bessy

ATP New York Gets Dinosaur Jr, Mercury Rev, Yo La Tengo

Cold War Kids Late Summer Tour Dates

Sub Pop Singles Club Gets Black Lips, Arthur & Yu, Om

YouTube and Viacom Showdown: Your Data Becomes Not So Private

New Mogwai MP3 Unveiled

Rage Against The Machine's Zach De La Rocha
Launches One Day as a Lion

Ra Ra Riot and Their Ra Ra Tour (Riots Are Optional)

MusicfestNW Rolls Out 2008 Line Up

The Verve Offer a New MP3 Download + Glastonbury Video

The Sea and Cake Set Off Car Alarm in October

The Jesus and Mary Chain Boxed Set: 81 Tracks of Hidden History

The Devil, You, + Me and the Fall Notwist Tour

Conor Oberst Tour Dates, Interview, Streams

Nagisa Ni Te Do 70's Psych Folk

Radiohead's From The Basement Appearance Goes Online

The Con Tour Continues

Bumbershoot Festival Announces New Music Additions, Literary Line Up

They've Got Verve and So Do You:
The Verve Release New Album Info, Stream

Irmin Schmidt & Kumo: Decidedly German (and Funky)

T In The Park Names Final Additions

Doves Closing In On Next Album

Feelin' Good About the Brotherhood:
Chemical Brothers Announce Best of Album

Going All The Way with Growing

Alias Returns This September

Sigur Rós Announce North American Tour