Cassetts Won’t Listen – covering Pavement’s Cut Your Hair. (apparently soon to be made available as an mp3 here.)

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The remaining members of Led Zeppelin sat down with Yahoo Music to discuss the upcoming tribute concert at London’s O2 Arena in honor of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Guitarist Jimmy Page sounds rather confident in the band’s ability to bring it live after all these years, although looking at him hardly instills much confidence. […]

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Sometimes Throwing Muse and longtime solo artist Kristin Hersh has created CASH Music (the acronym stands for Coalition of Artists & Stake Holders), which is a “new music business model” wherein artists post free mp3’s in multiple formats for listeners to critique, remix, or even produce. Hersh is no stranger to this process, as I was a […]

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Frieze Magazine (future issue for Jan 08) features a back and forth between Ann Powers, chief pop critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Simon Reynolds discussing the past year in music, from feminism to the handcrafted underground. That’s certainly a more positive angle on the state of (women in) pop. Perhaps what really pains […]

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The new Radiohead video for “Jigsaw Falling into Place”, the first official single off In Rainbows, is a dash of black and white claustrophobia, wherein the band members are all wearing odd little bicycle helmets as the camera swoops between them along to the beat. It’s far less odd that you’d expect, considering how cryptic […]

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Absofuckingmazing. The next Girl Talk? (via Get Weird, Turn Pro)

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Music Blog Pasta Primavera’s got 3 remixes for this fine Friday, including Girl Talk’s version of Let’s Call it Off.

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