Weekly Round Up – March 22nd 2009
Here’s our weekly round up of news from around the web that didn’t quite garner a full CMI post.
- Pixies like MBV play live, but not near any of us.
- The previous is all the more impressive, considering that the Breeders are preparing a new EP.
- In a micro-burst of awesome in the greater Los Angeles area, No Age remix Fucked Up’s ”No Epiphany.”
- Stone’s Throw tweets about Doom and Ghostface together on one track!
- Vivian Girls use No Doubt’s cymbals.
- In recognition of the entire world raiding their hometown, Voxtrot release a new Cure-iffic single produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno
- Bob Dylan will release a new album entitled Together Through Life and chats up Bill Flanagan about its release.
- Beastie Boys are reissuing Check Your Head
- Better still they are streaming an Arsenio Hall performance of “So Whatcha Want” on their site
- If you’ve been waiting to introduce your kid brother to indie rock, now is your chance. Amazon MP3 is offering free label samplers from Sub Pop, Jagjaguwar, Bar/None, and Secretly Canadian.
- Decider Austin interviews the Pains of Being Pure At Heart.
- Popmatters revisits Radiohead’s 90′s output.
- Spiritualized will be playing Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space as part of All Tomorrow’s Parties’ Don’t Look Back series. A deluxe version of the album will be released to coincide with the show.
- Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan chats up the Hartford Advocate about the band’s side project, the Condo Fucks.
- Rumors have been flying that The Stone Roses will reform to tour.
- Boris, Sunn O))), and Earth to collaborate on scoring the next Jim Jarmusch film.
- Warp Records offers a higher quality download of Grizzly Bear’s “Chearleader.”
- Jimmy Fallon’s show is strangely musically relevant – credit goes to ?uestlove
- Vampire Weekend perform “White Sky”
- Public Enemy perform “Bring the Noise” alla Jay-Z unplugged
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