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Sonic Youth, The Soft Pack, The Kills for Elijah Wood's charity album

5294 days ago

NME — 'Elysium: A Benefit For The Art Of Elysium' will raise money to bring musicians in to work with children in hospital more info

Sonic Youth, Sleigh Bells on Elijah Wood-Curated Benefit Compilation

5294 days ago

Pitchfork — Elijah Wood isn't just the little guy who played Frodo in the Lord of the Rings movies; he's also the little guy who signed the Apples in Stereo to his own Simian Records and stars in their latest video. And now Wood has also curated Elysium: A Be... more info

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Guided by Voices Reunite!

5294 days ago

Pitchfork — UPDATE: Matador has announced the initial lineup for their 21st birthday party. In addition to the reunited GBV ("the Classic '93 - '96 lineup), it also features Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, the Jon Spencer... more info

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New Music and In-Studio Footage from Dead Confederate

5295 days ago

Altsounds — As previously announced, Dead Confederate will return with their sophomore album, Sugar, on August 24th via TAO Recordings/Old Flame. Sugar was recorded by John Agnello (The Hold Steady, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) and as Dead Confederate's Hardy ... more info

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Bombay Bicycle Club: 'It's not folk'

5297 days ago

Guardian Music — The band have ditched indie-rock for a more audacious sound on their new LP, writes Paul MardlesBombay Bicycle Club don't take kindly to praise. Tell the north London quartet that their new album, Flaws, sounds like the work of folk veterans, rather ... more info

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Bright Eyes Anti-Arizona Song Due

5299 days ago

Pitchfork — Photo by Autumn de Wilde As previously reported, the Sound Strike is a coalition of artists who are boycotting Arizona after it passed the controversial SB 1070 bill, which gives the police broad power to detain people suspected to be in the country ... more info

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No Age Announce New Album

5299 days ago

Pitchfork — Photo by Todd Cole Thus far, the Los Angeles dream-punk duo No Age has only released one proper studio album. We here at Pitchfork gave that album, Nouns, a 9.2 and named it our #3 album of 2008. So news of a new No Age album is a big deal around t... more info

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No Age Tour

5300 days ago

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-03 Calgary, Alberta - Royal Canadian Legion #1 07-31 London, England - Field Day Festival 08-04 St. Petersburg, Russia - Tanci 08-06 Moscow, Russia - Solyanka 08-08 Myslowice, Poland - OFF Festival 09-11 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival ... more info

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Alexis Petridis on the joy of cassettes

5300 days ago

Guardian Music — 'They made me love music more'There is a bloke currently selling blank cassettes on eBay: unopened TDK MA-R C60s, to be exact. Before you take this as further proof that eBay is the great car-boot sale of cyberspace, it is worth mentioning that unope... more info

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