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.