Happy New Year

• Radiohead webcast for the New Year
• We Are Scientists holiday video and new songs
• Top earning musicians of 2007
• What are My Chemical Romance trying to say???

Emergency Blog!!!

Just received this bit in my inbox... (Names/emails blacked out to protect the innocent.) Click on picture to see enlarged version.

News From Afar

• Lou Reed to keynote at SXSW
• Who will be big in 2008?
• In Rainbows outsold all of Radiohead's previous albums combined
• Ashlee Simpson trying to be indie rock in her new video

• The Hives' music video for the Cartoon Network
• Skope is a prop in Alvin & The Chipmunks...is this rock?
• Here's a good list: the AV Club's worst band names of 2007
• Against Me! has Spin's #1 album of the year
  

Little By Little

• Billboard's 25 best rock posters of all time
• Hipster blank greeting cards
• Grammis 2008 nominees include: Jens Lekman, The Hives, Kent, Mando Diao, Shout Out Louds, PB&J (all as expected)
• Silverspun Pickups remix
• Pitchfork's Year in Photos
• Hold Steady in the Twin Cities interactive map
• Cold War Kids talk about bras, sleeping in Walmart's paking lots in this interview
  
• Michel Gondry's new music video for Bjork
• Samuel L. Jackson's commentary on "emo kids with firearms"
• Coming soon
  

• Vice hijacks Rockbjörnen
• BQ commercial
• Universal bars artists from posting full-length songs on MySpace
• Inside Paramore's tour bus

Almost Famous

• AOL and Yahoo may shut down web radio services
• Queen to release free single download on Saturday
• Swedish P3 Guld 2008 award nominees
• MTV International creates platinum and gold certifications
• MGMT releases viewer-interactive music video for "Electric Feel"

Love in October - An Average Idea

Love in October post new music video for "An Average Idea" from their forthcoming album. The video is a fast-paced piece that tells a story of finding oneself, fighting the nine-to-five lifestyle, and dealing with schizophrenia...all in one minute and fifty seconds.

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Visually Daunting

• New rock festival from C3 Presents and Melvin Benn's Festival Republic
• Hawthorne Heights guitarist dies on tour bus
• Vote for NPR's best albums
• The Jackson 5 Reunion Tour
• Pampered rock stars
• Chicago Punk, Vol. 1
• Robyn has a new video for "Be Mine"

The Long and Short

• Paste's list
• Janet Reno's compilation CD
• WOXY's holiday mixer up and running
• Brave New World on Spin's online book club this month
• Hipster Bingo and Am I Emo (courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan)
• Beard cap
• $10 threadless sale
• Audio gain in CD volume
• Free EP download from Jämna Plågor for "Buy Nothing Day"
• Rivers Cuomo posts new song
• Pete Wentz "film"
• Mixtapes and Cellmates on Tripwire
• Stockholm film festival

• Rock shirts auctioning for $4500
• AOL offers: Indie in One Minute and Emo in One Minute
• Fuse's "Videos That Rocked the World"
• Billboard 200: Killers at #12, Foo Fighters at #63, Hives at #65
• Millencolin blogging from the studio

Anything Is Possible

• "Selling Out Isn't Possible" by Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal)
• Stream Bloc Party's "Flux" from new EP
• Tripwire offering exclusive downloads
• Pacific! on Panda (mp3)
• Jim Walsh talks about his book, The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History, on MPR

Tackgiving

• Vote in the 2007 Gummy Awards
• I'm From Barcelona opens EuroSonic 2008
• RCRD LBL
• The Pipettes teach you their dance routines
• White Tie Affair's free digital EP
• Justin Pierre admits new album is "about girls"
• Bloc Party forced to leave the stage after a couple in the audience started having sex

PLUG Awards

• PLUG awards

Cryptographically Speaking

• Mogwai, Ok Go, They Might Be Giants appear on Pixies tribute album: Dig For Fire
• Indie music in commercials
• Songza music search engine & internet jukebox
• Spin cover features The Foo Fighters, as well as their prolific music videos
• Yanqing, China to get music valley
• Office gets much love
• Upcoming guests on The Sauce include FOB, MCS, and Plain White T's

Out to Save the World

• Ted Leo video for "Colleen"
• Radiohead cover Bjork
• Indie poster artist Jay Ryan
• Best music blog nominees
• Mando Diao's "Gold" on It's a Trap
• Stream the new Hives album
• The New Deal: Band as Brand (360 deals)
• Wendy's offers Rhapsody downloads with combo meals
• LoveLikeFire video for "I Will"
• Dessa hipsters i skägg

• mtvU Woodies party and winners
• Drowned in Sound's albums of the year: readers poll
• Amazon's new mp3 store
• Arctic Monkeys music video for "Teddypicker"
• Vinyl-CD hybrid

• Early Gwen Stefani footage
• Office on Daytrotter
• Jens Lekman live in a Chicago apt
• Corporate rock radio makes me weep

Sub Pop Selling MP3s from Site

Sub Pop has begun offering MP3 albums for sale on subpop.com

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Low Profiles

• Fans who paid $0 for Radiohead's album
• Band replacements
• Realist sculptures

Vegan Version

• The Almost-Impossible Rock & Roll Quiz from RS
• Cabaraoke
• Rock 'n Roll Camp for girls
• NPR Music launched
• 12 Minneapolis bands on eMusic

Last.fm + Google Trends: A great marketing tool

Combine the information collected by Last.fm and Google, and you might be surprised by the results.

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Love in October is in the Air

Love in October is in the Air

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Trick or Treat

• Stylus Haiku Marathon
• MMA's moved to March
• NME Halloween Special

Hey Now

• Radiohead occupies all top 10 spots on Last.fm's weekly chart
• Arcade Fire covers the Smiths (finally online)
• Family Guy Star Wars parody out on DVD 01.15.07
• Story of the Year signs with Epitaph; Margot and the Nuclear So and So's signs with Epic
• John Mayer blogs about Paramore?
• EA's Rock Band playlist
• Wednesday is a great day for radio on the TV! The Go! Team, Manchester Orchestra, Regina Spektor
• Simian Mobile Disco's raunchy music video

Last.fm Christmas Chart Attack

Last.fm pitches three up-and-coming artists for the UK's Christmas Number 1. Vote for your favorite (or least disliked).

Paste Follows Radiohead's Lead

Name your price for a one-year subscription to Paste!

Twee Defined

English
Noun
Singular
twee pop
A type of "pop music" with simple melodies and lyrics, usually quaint, dainty, and/or cute.

Thanks, wikitionary and wikipedia

My Last.fm Wave Graph

Sunday Dreaming

• New psychadelic Of Montreal video for "Gronlandic Edit"
• The Academy Is acoustic version of "40 Steps" on Fuse
• Limbeck on Daytrotter
• She's so indie: Natalie Portman's mixtape tracklist revealed
• The Octupus Project's video for "Truck" on Spin (P.S. It's instrumental)
• Sambassadeur "Subtle Changes" on the Futurist

• PopMatters recap CMJ
• Weezer finish album
• Chicago's The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir play release show at the Empty Bottle on Friday
• Minneapolis represented at CMJ

Just What You Need (For Now)

• The Japanese ninja skirt that turns into a Coca Cola machine to ward off attackers
• Vegoose Music Festival webcast this Saturday
• Peter & Bjorn mp3
• For Kent: How manga conquered the U.S.
• New Swedish online music mag

Moshi

• Kaiju Big Battel (featured in new Bloc Party video)
• Music piracy website (OiNK.cd) shut down
• Dave Grohl interview on NPR
• Blog hype
• Pharrell Williams produced Hives song
• Getting to know Tokyo Police Club
• Radiohead label deals
• The Futurist is accepting Song of the Week features from fans
• Those Dancing Days on Spin (mp3, video)

Absolute Darling

• Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz opens clothing store in Chicago this weekend
• CMJ fame
• Musicophilia (music's connection to the brain)
• Kent releases seventh studio album
• Fueled by Ramen to re-release albums as music video interactive
• Dave Grohl's signature Gibson

Tonight I Have to Leave It

• Stream the new Mando Diao album
• Modest Mouse video for "People as Places as People"
• Music on flash drives

Thursday's the day after Wednesday

• Sufjan Stevens writes an orchestral suite about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
• Stream The Bombhappies album (click Music Machine)
• The Killers preview
• Kids playing CMJ
• Death Cab's solo demos in custody

Ta Da

• CMJ goodie bags
• Counter-clockwise?
• The Killers album art
• Debbie Harry schools kids on punk...just what they need
• Music Blogger Best of 2007 cheat sheet
• Johnny Marr receives academic honors
• Happy Birthday, Labrador

• Rivers Cuomo will release a solo album consisting of old Weezer demos entitled Alone - The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo
• There are a lot of Bjorns in the music biz
• The new hype machine
• Live CMJ performancs on KEXP
• 2007 has been a stinker for indie rock?

More Later

• White Stripes' strange email, selling cameras
• Star Wars trumpet solo
• All the Beatles' songs in one-hour mp3
• Supposedly 1.2 million downloads for Radiohead
• "Divinyl" format!
• How indie rock lost its soul
• The changing nature of music reviews

A Little Rusty

• CMJ preview sampler
• New Modest Mouse video
• Radiohead refuses to release sales figures
• Download 80's Swedish punk from the Bosse Studio
• Paste band of the week: Johnossi
• Girl Talk, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Enon, Blitzen Trapper, White Rabbits, Panthers, Meg & Dia, and Manchester Orchestra win Taco Bell contest

Unpublished

• Nine Inch Nails are free agents
• Family Guy retrospective

Second Helping

• Arcade Fire's plot revealed (click around)
• Another piece on the state of the industry
• A lot of good bands on tv this week
• Disapproving rabbits
• Dreamboy
• New Hives "You got it all wrong"
• John Lennon Imagine Peace Tower
• ABBA reissue The Album

Priceless

• Moog Museum
• Kurt Cobain: About a Son
• The Hives video for "Tick Tick Boom"
• Jose Gonzalez on La Blogotheque
• Panic! At the Disco scraps new album
• White Light Riot video

• The hipsters love fingerstaches
• The Killers cover Joy Division
• Amanda Palmer covers "Everybody Hurts"
• Foo Fighers #3 on Billboard
• The Redwalls new album (mp3)

Existens

• NPR streams Jose Gonzalez show
• Gibson launching self-tuning guitars
• RS's 25 most underrated guitarists
• Mando Diao's Bjorn pursuing solo career
• Arcade Fire's cryptic internet message (don't forget to click)
• First-ever Beatles sample clearance goes to Wu-Tang Clan
• Virtual water bottle xylophone

Tripping Over Rainbows

• Grand Rapids band The Icicles are all over licensing for Target and Krazr
• Foamhenge
• Regina Spektor video
• Stream new tracks from The Hives
• The Chicago International Film Festival schedule
• The Cake Sale benefits poverty relief projects
• Free Yr Radio 2007 and Give.Listen.Help comp CDs

Happy October

• PB&J's must-have playlist
• 30 days of CMJ (preview)
• Radiohead asks fans to name price for new album
• Scorsese to produce George Harrison documentary
• Robyn Bjorn-remix
• Bjork Conan footage
• Broken Social Scene to release book
• Scandinavian Indie Now and Then

It's the Final Countdown

• PB&J play on the Current
• Stream Office's new album
• MCS album debuts at #12 on Billboard
• CMJ/Sonicbids scam
• Elton John in child pornography probe
• Guitar Hero III leaked set list
• New Of Montreal song

News to Muse

• Super sexy iPod audio analysis
• Prince threatening suit to "reclaim the internet"
• Polaris Music Prize goes to Patrick Watson (who?)
• New releases today: Foo Fighters, Treay of Paris, Lonely Dear, Office
• Pitchfork reviews reviews Swedish duo Library Tapes
• New Mando Diao video
• Rock star tattoos
• Austin City Limits TV schedule
• Radiohead symbology
• Abba-ish Swiss Boarding School

• New We Are Scientists member?
• Meg White sex tape? (I shall not link.)
• The Rentals on Daytrotter
• Bjork on Conan on Thursday
• Band logos analysis
• 1977: The Year Punk Exploded

TV Killed the Radio Star?

• 2007 mtvU Woodie Awards nominees
• Black Lips' circus of a show complete with burlesque dancers and a fire-eater
• Treaty of Paris new music video
• Office new music video (with porn stars)
• Fall Out Boy Ugandan love story music video
• SXSW going carbon neutral, like Lolla

(untitled)

• Monkey portraits
• Stream the new Foo Fighters album
• First ever PLAY: stl festival is going to be a doozy
• Austin City Limits mp3 downloads
• CMJ College Radio Awards nominees
• City Pages Picked to Click

No news is good news?

• Signs that MTV hates you
• Austin City Limits toilet fire!
• Foo Fighters song about Kurt and Courtney?
• Mutemath to perform their song backwards on Kimmel

What's in a name?

• Austin City Limits live at the blue room today-Sunday
• Star Wars hits St. Paul
• Breakfast art
• Chicago music fall preview
• Are mp3s ruining music?
• The Deadly Syndrome = California rock
• MN graffiti artist
• America's drunkest cities
  
  More later...

Bang, Bang, Hiss, Hiss

• Download indie and international movies on Jaman
• Grizzly Bear with Dirty Projectors and Beirut
• New Battles video
• Dresden Dolls' iPod on shuffle
• The Hives' new single
• In Flames studio doc re: new release
• Britney and Madonna face beheading threat
• Spin reviews Junior Senior

What Will It Be?

• White Stripes cancel tour due to Meg's "anxiety"
• Alex the parrot died
• Free books!
• Can free music downloads save newspapers?
• mp3 blogs as the next record labels
• Vicious Vicious release on MOKB
• Throwaway pop of The Paper Faces
• The Current's School of Rock everyday this month
• Stream the entire Motion City Soundtrack album
• Juno at Toronto International Film Festival

Up, Up and Away

• New Robyn acoustic version
• Bjork to release live album
• Josh Cain gets married at the Gale Mansion
• People think Hanson is good
• New Shout Out Louds video
• WOXY has Monolith previews

Mush Mush

• 2007 MTV VMA winners
• New Go! Team CD streaming on AOL
• Death Cab for Cutie info
• Pitch perfection skewed by modern tuning...yay science!
• Foo Fighters video for "The Pretenders"
• Motion City Soundtrack B-side download
• Shout Out Louds album out now
• The Bear Quartet "I would be poor" mp3

Better Late Than Never

• Charlotte Gainsborg has emergency brain surgery
• The most rockin' song ever recorded per the AV Club
• Shirt of the Day...enough said
• VHS or Beta on MPR
• Love in October on Fox9 and Perfect Porridge
• The Rentals on WOXY

Gimme More

• Sweden gives $3M to preserve Bergman films
• Spoon + Robot
• Study says "Rock stars more likely to die prematurely"
• Damp cats...meow
• International equivalents of the Mercury Prize
• Bob hund has a new website and new album on the way

3.2.1...

• Doctor killed Beethoven?
• Flight of the Concords on Billboard
• The Hipster Olympics
• Smashing Pumpkins video
• The perfect iTunes equalizer setting
• Spin Artist of the Day: The Cops
• Treaty of Paris releases on Something Corporate's new label
• kär (imaginär) pensionär
• Summercats!

Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming

• New Shins video
• Create a Baconator song and win $5000
• The Rentals live
• The Hold Steady comic book
• Beard Team USA (not indie rock but crazy)
• Disturbing Marilyn Manson video
• "Distressed" guitars
• Indie guitar tabs
• Whistling is cool again
• Pelle Carlberg on NPR Open Mic
• New Panic! At the Disco songs
• Finnish "YMCA"
• Cardigans to release B-sides

Countdown to Infamy

• Peter Bjorn and John + Kanye West live proof
• Little Big Adventure post new mp3s
• Ted Leo loses bassist
• The Rentals streaming new CD
• "Pork chop" mp3

Swedish Meat Edition

• Swedish Jose Gonzalez video...with a pig-man
• Lolla downloads
• Bear Quartet live at Göteborg festival
• Way Out West 2007
• Martin Wiklund of Animal Keyboard uses a child's toy to make music
• Analysis of how Linkin Park songs "look" the same
• The New Pornographers are streaming their new album on MySpace
• Shout Out Louds tour dates
• PeterBjorn and John web game

Battling

• Who's going to the CMJ Music Marathon?
• The world's largest music lesson...in Chicago!
• Robyn covers Kelly Clarkson
• More vinyl, more violin
• Modest Mouse's Conan performance
• The Absolute 100 features our friends The Audition, Love Me Electric, Mando Diao, Quietdrive, and Secondhand Serenade, among others
• The Ghost is Dancing on Spin.com

Woe is Today

• MTV VMA Nominees include Peter Bjorn and John, Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes...and all R&B artists for the Video of the Year
• Matt Sharp talks about the return of the Rentals
• The Hives are "prisioners to [their] own creativity"
• The 25 best opening lyrics

Short Take

• Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol
• The resurgence of the ukelele in indie rock?
• The impact of music blogs
• Indie in the mix pt 3
• Aiden wins Virgin Mobile's "Book the Band" contest
• Panic! At the Disco goes happy
• Chicago Threadless Free Show at Metro on 09.14.2007 with Office, White Hot Knife, The Assembly

Frequent Ramblings

• Lolla in pictures
• Apples in Stereo frontman creates new mathematical scale
• Bergman and music
• The Rentals' new EP available
• Dave Grohl KROQ interview
• Rivers Cuomo is shopping his memoirs

Rocket Science

Another movie I want to see!

Wish I Was Here

• Live Lolla Webcast
• Shock Stars won Lolla's Last Band Standing
  Update: Helicopters won the popular vote. Both Chicago bands.
• Kanye West to perform with Peter Bjorn and John
• Top 10 Music Geek Accessories
• New Foo Fighters' single download
• We Are Scientists at Coney Island!
• As Cloud Cult performs, they paint a full canvas on stage
• Pop culture haikus...love it!

Off With Their Heads

• hipDisk, "the most undignified musical instrument ever"
• Hello Saferide interview and music
• KEXP hearts Sweden
• Minnesota's all ages scene
• Nirvana photo project

Back in the Loop

• Ingmar Bergman dies at 89
• White Stripes' video
• Cold War Kids' video
• Metro turns 25
• RS's 20 best live bands playing right now (including our friends, The Flaming Lips)
• The relationship between mp3 blogs and record labels
• Redwalls' new album, new label, new tour
• I'm From Barcelona's "Britney" available as b-side
• Justin's take on the new MCS album

Sweet DFest

The Turtles Are Coming!

• UM Turtle Derby
• March of the Penguins Turtle-Style: The Turtle's Song
• Turtle Songs of North America (login: tmbg, password: thespinesurfs)
• Memory turtle game
• Voyage of the lonely turtle
• Two-headed turtle = double trouble
• Sexy turtle poster
• Turtle gallery
• Turtle love

Behind the Eight Ball

• Windy City band, Arks, makes Spin's band of the week
• Tokyo Police Club sign to Saddle Creek (home to Bright Eyes, Cursive, Art in Manila)
• Paste and Pitchfork love Los Campesinos!
• For amusement purposes only: Quietdrive performs "Time After Time"...on a cruise boat
• The Ludo Video Thing is inaugurated
• Indie/psych? music video by Kytaja
• I actually really want to see this Beatles-backed movie: Across the Universe out in September

• Stream the new Prince album
• Mercury Music Prize nominees
• White Stripes play a one second set
• Paris graces Smashing Pumpkins' "Tarantula" cover
• Fall Out Baby?

If You're Into It

• The Smashing Pumpkins are trying to find the girls from the Siamese Dream album cover
• Simpsonize me
• The #1 song on the charts 15 years ago was "Baby Got Back"
• The Decemberists are playing a free show with the Grant Park Orchestra
• Pitchfork's Overlooked Records of 2007...maybe there is a reason they're overlooked
• Catchpenny is giving away their CD, too
• Eagle*Seagull...enjoy and enjoy
• The Hipster Must Die edition
• Callum, SMA and good-hearted rockers (again)
• Another Motion City Soundtrack song
• The real Delilah

New news:

• Prince gives away his album in the UK
• Harry Potter inspires "wizard rock"
• Pirated music to determine radio playlists
• New Franz Ferdinand album is synth-led
• "Hey There, Delilah" is the #1 song on iTunes
• Punk's Not Dead, the movie
• A letter from Billy Corgan
• Nina Persson's (of The Cardigans) solo project

Old news:

• Flute Hero is not as easy as it looks
• Domers that rock: Umphreys McGee, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Ludo
• Billboard 25 must-hear new indie albums
• The Art of the Band T-Shirt

• Free slurpees today!
• OKX: A Tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer
• More emo in the news
• My brother thinks I'm like Mel
• Pop Sessions is new to NPR
• The Hives opening for Maroon 5 on tour
• Hej Hej night at D.C. club

• Foo Fighters album in the trenches
• The National on Daytrotter
• I love this shirt
• What?! Where did they find a melodica???

• Punk Planet is no more.
• AOL is streaming Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon, Interpol, among others
• The Observer tries to define "indie" music
• Sugary-sweet Spin Band of the Day: A Sunny Day in Glasgow
• Gogol Bordello + Madonna = ?

• GenArt Music Must Have Playlist for July
• Dreamy new Grizzly Bear and Dresden Dolls videos
• Avril Lavigne hires "musicologist" to defend suit
• Arctic Monkeys dismiss Live Earth
• Why is everyone getting naken for NME?
• Zeitgesit on AOL Full CD Listening Party

• This year's Fashion Rocks event will feature performances by Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy, Carrie Underwood, Fergie, Jennifer Hudson, Santana, Aerosmith and others. Fall Out Boy? Really?
• Dinner with Tokyo Police Club
• Filter First Impressions of Shout Out Louds and The Go! Team both out on 09.11.2007
• Sampling of Chicago Summer Musical Festivals
• Live From Abbey Road is a collection of live musical performances in the legendary space

• Love in October is in the studio working on their first full-length album, set to be released in October. The album diverges from their standard sound, emphasizing melodic Swedish pop sensibilities. Joining them on this effort are Ryan Pope, drummer of the former Get Up Kids, and Ed Rose, producer to Motion City Soundtrack and Limbeck, among others.
• Shout Out Louds do it blogotheque-style in Stockholm.
• You can't say the new Motion City Soundtrack video lacks heart.
• Save the Date: The Its! record relase show is 07.07.2007 at Subterranean.