Rolling Stone — Photo: Ochs/Getty The Beatles, “Revolution 1 (Take 20)” [Unreleased Track] Take 20? Really? 20 takes? That’s not revolution, that’s just procrastination. No wonder this rendition sounds so weary. Takes 15 - 17: all tuba. Nothing but tuba. Ki... more info

West country two-piece Malakai are proteges of Portishead's Geoff Barrow, so it's no surprise that their debut album cleaves to the spooky samples template their mentor developed. And, as with Portishead's Dummy, a lot of those samples come from the ... more info

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Guardian Music — Portishead are free! And looking for ideas on how to release their next album.The band have announced on their MySpace blog that they are "free of a deal" and "free of commitment", following the release of last year's Third, their first studio album ... more info

Paste Magazine — In one simple word, the world of music distribution changed 10 years ago: Napster. Although the free download service only lasted two years (the Napster that currently exists is a pay service, Roxio, that bought the name and logo), it forever alter... more info

Pitchfork — Photos by James Cadden After returning to the realm of popular music with last year's Third, Portishead are now free agents after fulfilling their contract with Island Records. According to a MySpace post from the band's Geoff Barrow, "we spent the... more info

DrownedInSound — Portishead are no longer signed to Island Records and are thinking about what they could and should do next. DiS has a few suggestions... more info

Pitchfork — -- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the same title, has signed on to write a Run-DMC biopic. According to the Hollywood... more info

Stereogum — For all the silly hype Alex Turner picked up back in the Who The Fuck Are... days, the Arctic front man has patiently grown into every bit of it, whether we're talking Favourite Worst Nightmare or the Last Shadow Puppets or chatting up actresses o... more info

JamBase — Coachella Lineup Leaks While nothing has been officially reported, rumors of the 2009 Coachella lineup are starting to surface. Set to go down April 17-19, we've heard for some time that Blur, Faith No More and Morrissey will headline. And accord... more info