News in Brief: Lady Sovereign, James Jackson Toth/WAND, Ting Tings, 1990s
-- You know this whole Twitter thing is getting out of hand when artists are using the text-speak social-messaging thing to report show cancellations. Credit Lady Sovereign with breaking that particular barrier; Visa complications have forced the tiny Brit rapper to push back her quick run of small-venue U.S. shows. (Via Brooklyn Vegan.) Not announced via Twitter: the rescheduled dates, which are on her MySpace.-- Freak-folk freak James Jackson Toth apparently takes his stage-name cues from Didd...
Pitchfork — -- You know this whole Twitter thing is getting out of hand when artists are using the text-speak social-messaging thing to report show cancellations. Credit Lady Soverei... more info