LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian reports that the Smashing Pumpkins will release a free 44-track album (actually 11 4-song EPs) digitally. The Georgia Straight profiles author Douglas Coupland. Wired lists 5 online apps that tap the internet's infinite playlist. Time in... more info

Rolling Stone — Nick Cave has always been one literary rock star. Even when he was howling “Release The Bats” with the Birthday Party, the goth-punk visionary was scribbling poems and one-act plays for fanzines. (Sample title: “The Stoning Of Ruby ... more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Ryan Muir Dirty Three were the third band to play at ATP NY on Friday night (9/11). Their set time was 6:00pm, and like most bands playing that night, they played an album (Ocean Songs) from start to... more info

Rolling Stone — Now in its second year, the upstate New York installment of the U.K. concert series All Tomorrow’s Parties prides itself on being unlike other festivals. There is no corporate sponsorship, there is no $5 water for sale, and (perhaps most humanely) ... more info

Guardian Music — Nick Cave is best known as a singer-songwriter and front man of the legendary Bad Seeds. But he has a second life as a novelist, and has just published his second book, The Death of Bunny Munro, which comes complete with a surround-sound audio versio... more info

Guardian Music — Last week you suggested songs about fessing up. Now we want to hear about music featuring those magical bars of sweet relief known as the middle eightSo we did have a bit of a Weekend Philosophy Club after all, and who's to say the thread wasn't the ... more info

NME — New effort 'very different' to debut, Warren Ellis says more info

NME — Singer-turned-novelist launches iPhone app for new book more info

The Quietus — Get your hands on a signed copy of Bunny Munro more info