Alan Sparhawk's Black-Eyed Snakes Go Skiing on DVD
Black Mountain pissed they didn't think of idea first
The Snakes have released a short film called Cross Country With the Snakes on DVD, featuring the cross-country skiing talents of the band and, in particular, those of drummer and one-time Olympic hopeful Brad Nelson. And sure, the DVD-- shot by skiing fanatic Hansi Johnson-- also has some live footage from the shows the band played on its Colorado/Utah road trip, but the real prize is getting to see the Snakes' impression of Low's "Belarus" video.
As part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival tour, Cross Country With the Snakes will screen at Minneapolis' Midwest Mountaineering on November 16 and 17 and at the Duluth Cross Country Ski Club on November 18 and 19. The DVD is available from Low's chairkickers.com now.
For their part, Low still have those Down Under dates scheduled in January, starting January 9 in Auckland, New Zealand. [MORE...]
Dan Deacon Reveals Ultimate Reality Tour Details
Tour to focus on music, images rather than globalization, poverty, alienation
Wham Citizens Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche have turned Ultimate Reality, their collaborative DVD/"dominant pansexual ubermyth" into a dominant pansexual ubercircus with the announcement of a 2008 tour in support of the recent release.
On these dates, Deacon's regular set will come after a screening of the DVD, which will be accompanied by live music from Deacon, Roche, and drummers Kevin O'Meare of Video Hippos and Jeremy Hyman of Ponytail. Deacon has plenty of regular old tour dates as well, starting with a show in Baltimore on November 15.
According to Deacon's label, Carpark, he is readying a Spiderman of the Rings follow-up for a tentative May release. In the touring department, he hopes to supplement his February/March trip to Australia with February dates in Japan, followed in the spring by a potential European Ultimate Reality tour.
And finally: "Wham City" ringtone. [MORE...]
The Band's Levon Helm Helps Ida Prepare Prayers
When it came time to record Lovers Prayers, their follow-up to 2005's Heart Like a River, New Yorkers Ida did the Bon Iver retreat-into-the-woods thing. The thing is, they chose a pretty cool patch of woods for the retreat: the home studio of Levon Helm (Arkansas native, drummer for the Band, actor in The Right Stuff, all-around cool-seeming guy) in the Catskill Mountains.While there, the band was able to get Helm to sit in with them for a little bit of drum recording. And in addition to the work of new band members Jean Cook (Mekons) on violin and Ruth Keating on drum and multi-instrumental duties, contributions to the album included guitar, drums, and cover art from Tara Jane O'Neil, cello from Jane Scarpantoni (R.E.M., Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright), pedal steel from Matt Sutton, and engineering from Justin Guip, Helm's own engineer. Longtime Ida collaborator Warn Defever (His Name Is Alive) helped the band produce the album.
Lovers Prayers marks Ida's seventh full-length overall and second for Polyvinyl, which will release the record on January 29. The band has three New York dates scheduled for this month, starting with an NYC show on November 15.
Finally, during the time they recorded Lovers Prayers, Ida were also afforded the opportunity to collaborate with one of their heroes: songwriter Michael Hurley, who lends fiddle to Lovers. The band is currently working with him on another new project. [MORE...]
Photos: The Walkmen [San Diego, CA; 11/10/07]
Photos by Natalie KardosHamilton Leithauser and his Walkmen strolled into San Diego this past weekend to, yes, rock the Casbah. The Saturday night gig was but one of several engagements the NYC five-piece has lined up in the days to come. Tonight finds them in Santa Barbara, and apart from one lone date in Mexico next month, December is wide open for all the "Sex in the City" DVD-viewing slumber parties these guys could ever want.
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Major Stars Join Drag City Roster for New LP, Tour
Almost 10 years into their recording career, Major Stars' pummeling psych attack doesn't look to let up any time soon. And for their sixth album, Mirror/Messenger, Massachusetts natives Wayne Rogers and Kate Village have found a new label, Drag City, and four additional members, giving them a three-headed hydra in the guitar department.Drag City will release Mirror/Messenger on November 20, and the band will follow the album's release with a rare tour of East Coast and Midwest dates. Their first show is November 27 in Pittsburgh. [MORE...]
Los Campesinos! Name Album, Add 2008 Dates
Things seem to be going swimmingly on the current Los Campesinos! world tour. Except for "the twat in Newcastle who tried to steal the Melody Horn, the smegga in Southampton who DID steal a microphone and the dickstick in Cambridge that tried to cause a fight after 'coming on' to Ellen," the enthusiasm radiating from the band's latest MySpace bulletin/outpost from the road is contagious. And while you seek out a real live British person to tell you the meaning of smegga (...icky!) and furiously Google in hope of helping Gareth in his quest to find a "decent Bis t-shirt," feast your eyes on the title of the forthcoming debut LP from the LC!:
Hold On Now, Youngster...
"This is the title of our album," Gareth writes on behalf of the band and their new ellipsis-laden thesis statement, "because it is the best title for any album ever." Debatable, but that'll do. You kids sure do like punctuation! The band has "a tracklisting and stuff too" for Hold On Now, "but that's all secret for the time being."
The disc is set to drop around the time Los Campesinos! embark on a fresh new run of tour dates in February. "We promise we'll have some amazing bands playing with us, because we know no other way." Indeed: just check out the ever-expanding lineup for next May's Pitchfork vs. ATP festival if you don't believe 'em. [MORE...]
Travis Morrison Rounds Up Hellfighters for Fall Tour
Call him T-Mobile
When I found out Travis Morrison and his Hellfighters are about to go on tour, I immediately pictured one of the Orcs-gearing-up-for-battle scenes from the Lord of the Rings movies. Fortunately for the audiences at these shows, Morrison is easier on the eyes than that.
But even without Hellfighter accompaniment, Morrison's Prince-like live antics are not to be missed. So get on down to these shows, which start November 15 in NYC, and watch TM and band tear into some All Y'all tunes. [MORE...]
Un-T.V. Eye: November 12-18, 2007
As the Writers Guild of America strike goes into its second week, we've got even more reruns for ya here at T.V. Eye. The two exceptions: Fuel TV and Fearless TV.
Monday, November 12:
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Ryan Adams (rerun)
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Thurston Moore, Common (rerun)
Tuesday, November 13:
NBC: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Cold War Kids (rerun)
NBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Modest Mouse (rerun)
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: They Might Be Giants (rerun)
Wednesday, November 14:
FUEL TV: The Daily Habit: Ra Ra Riot
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Ben Lee (rerun)
Saturday, November 17:
FOX: Fearless TV: Heavy Trash, Clare & the Reasons
NBC: Saturday Night Live: Foo Fighters (rerun)
Art Brut's Argos, Black Box Recorder Cut Xmas Single
Help them take it to number one!
To do so, Eddie has teamed with another UK act fond of the speak-singing, lovable cynics Black Box Recorder, and a pal who goes by the name of Keith Top of the Pops. Together as the Black Arts, this upstanding bunch has recorded a holiday heatseeker, conveniently titled "Christmas Number One", about-- get this-- a Christmas single that takes on a life of its own. This "One" has it all: jingle bells, children singing, some tacky rhymes, a bridge in waltz time, the delirious barks of Argos, and the authoritative coo of BBR's Sarah Nixey.
Meanwhile, B-side "Glam Casual" has Argos reminding us that "the internet is full of mean and evil people." Errr...
Fantastic Plastic offers up "Christmas Number One" as a limited edition (1,000 copies) slab of green 7" vinyl on December 10, and as a digital download on December 3. But it's up to you, the record-buying public, to take it to number one. And if you don't, THERE WILL BE NO CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR. (Haha, kidding, but Christmas won't be nearly as funny.)
This isn't the first time Argos has comingled with the Black Box Recorder camp. BBR's John Moore and Luke Haines joined Eddie and Keith to form the English Travelling Wilburys (nevermind that George Harrison and Jeff Lynne are English, and the original spells it "Traveling"), who recorded a BBC radio session, while Moore played on both Art Brut records. World, watch out: the crew may try its hand at a Eurovision entry next.
Black Box Recorder have no immediate plans for the moment, while Argos and Art Brut are on the road now. [MORE...]
Kanye, Bowie, Cat Power Design Charity Lunchboxes
Also: Bright Eyes, Beastie Boys, TV on the Radio, Interpol, Lily Allen, Michael Stipe
Superman, move over. There's a new batch of lunchbox designs in town. Kanye West, David Bowie, Cat Power, Interpol, the Beastie Boys, Bright Eyes, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Yoko Ono, Michael Stipe, Rufus Wainwright, Lily Allen, TV on the Radio, Courtney Love, Patti Smith, and Scissor Sisters among many others (including lots of famous Hollywood types), have all decorated pails for this year's Lunchbox Auction, an online charity auction for hunger relief in New York City and South Africa.
Bidding on the celeb-designed lunchboxes will begin at TheLunchboxAuction.org on December 6, and the proceeds from the auctions will go to two charities: The Food Bank for New York City and the Lunchbox Fund.
Check out some lunchboxes from the 2005 auction. Here's Conor Oberst's:
And Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino's:
And a collaborative effort between David Bowie, wife Iman, and daughter Lexi:
Photos: Menomena / Illinois [Boston, MA; 11/09/07]
Photos by Jason BergmanTouring in tandem: a great way to make both Friend and Foe. Luckily, a few weeks on the road together seem to have made tourmates Menomena and Illinois very much the former-- they even swapped members for a spell this past weekend at Boston's Paradise. Menomena's Justin Harris aided Illinois with his trusty sax, while Illinois frontman Chris Archibald ditched his shirt and joined Menomena to, well, you'll see.
The boys have but a few more dates together; then comes the sweet sorrow of parting and a few scattered shows for each beyond.
And since you're here, don't forget Menomena's Danny Seim has a new Lackthereof album due this December.
MENOMENA
ILLINOIS
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Roots Curate Fest, Do Entire Things Fall Apart LP Live
The 2008 POPPED! Music Festival pops off at Philadelphia's Drexel University June 20-22, and based on the first act alone, we can tell you this thing will be a doozy.Not only will Philly's favorite sons the Roots curate the first night of next year's fest, they will also perform catalog hallmark Things Fall Apart in its entirety, Don't Look Back-stylee. Hot dang.
Black Thought, ?uestlove, and the guys will join some 40 more performers to rock POPPED! 2008, and if all goes according to plan the Roots won't be the only ones performing a modern day classic from start to finish.
While we wait with baited breath for lineup updates, know this: POPPED! has taken initiatives to help make its 2008 bash green-friendly. So you can rock out with a clean conscience. What's more, fest organizers plan to hold several satellite events in the months leading up to POPPED! 2008.
Do you have a news tip for us? Anything crazy happen at a show you attended recently? Do you have inside info on the bands we cover? Is one of your favorite artists (that's not somebody you know personally) releasing a new record you'd like to see covered? You will remain completely anonymous, unless we are given your express permission to reveal your identity. (Please note that publicists, managers, booking agents, and other artist representatives are generally exempt from this rule, but will also be granted anonymity if requested.)
Tue: 11-13-07: 04:45 PM CST
Andrew Bird Drops Tour EP, Adds Dates
Tue: 11-13-07: 03:50 PM CST
T.I. Speaks Out in Video Statement, Names New LP
Tue: 11-13-07: 03:20 PM CST
Air Tour Europe With Au Revoir Simone
Tue: 11-13-07: 02:50 PM CST
Neko Case Big Ups Poetry in Poetry Magazine
Tue: 11-13-07: 01:58 PM CST
R.E.M., Beasties, Roots Play Langerado 2008
- Tweedy, McGuinn, Some Mekons Play School Benefit
- Phil Elverum Cancels Remaining Mount Eerie Dates
- Manu Chao Preps Digital Releases, Reissues
- Opeth Unleash a Live Album, Play a Cruise Ship
- Former Dismemberment Planners Prep Statehood LP
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- Alan Sparhawk's Black-Eyed Snakes Go Skiing on DVD
- Dan Deacon Reveals Ultimate Reality Tour Details
- The Band's Levon Helm Helps Ida Prepare Prayers
- Photos: The Walkmen [San Diego, CA; 11/10/07]
- Major Stars Join Drag City Roster for New LP, Tour
- Los Campesinos! Name Album, Add 2008 Dates
- Travis Morrison Rounds Up Hellfighters for Fall Tour
- Un-T.V. Eye: November 12-18, 2007
- Art Brut's Argos, Black Box Recorder Cut Xmas Single
- Kanye, Bowie, Cat Power Design Charity Lunchboxes
- Photos: Menomena / Illinois [Boston, MA; 11/09/07]
- Roots Curate Fest, Do Entire Things Fall Apart LP Live
- Kelley Stoltz Serves Up Sounds for Sub Pop
- Donda West, Mother of Kanye, Dead at 58
- Weezer Announce Release Date for New Album
- Radiohead Announce North America Rainbows Release
- Naked Man Tasered in the Ass at Girl Talk Show
- Sigur Ros' Jonsi Birgisson Talks Plans, Interviews
- Broken Social Scenesters on New Jason Collett Album
- Photos: Battles / Caribou / White Williams [Chicago, IL; 11/08/07]
- Black Kids Add Dates
- Polvo Reunite for All Tomorrow's Parties
- Dirty Projectors Take on More Touring
- Goldfrapp Reveal Seventh Tree Tracklist
- Trans Am Hit the Road With Tool
- Sharon Jones Adds Dates, Great Debaters OST Revealed
- Whitest Boy Alive Issue Dreams in the UK via Modular
- Sufjan Announces Christmas Song Exchange Contest
- The Go! Team Plot "Wrath of Marcie" Single
- Unreleased 1978 Talking Heads Live Cut on KALX 7"
- Nirvana's Novoselic Blogs, Talks Anarchy, "Teen Spirit"
- My Brightest Diamond Kicks Off Tour Tonight
- Radiohead Doing Something on the Web in Two Hours
- Ghostface Unveils Big Doe Tracklist, Guests, Cover Art
- Pitchfork: The Survey!
- Blood Brothers Break Up, For Real This Time
- Soulwax Roughed Up by Bouncers in Liverpool
- Hold Steady, Husker Du Guys in Replacements Book
- Report: I'm Not There: In Concert [New York, NY; 11/07/07]
- Lily Allen to Host TV Show on BBC Three
- Vampire Weekend Reveal Debut Album Details
- Radiohead Reveal UK Rainbows Release Date, Single
- Another Devendra Banhart Art Exhibit
- Handsome Furs Revive Touring Plague
- Cat Power Covers Lil Wayne on Updated Jukebox
- Thurston, Pornos, Liars, Deerhunter Do Barcelona Fest
- Franz's Thomson Drums Up Domino 7" With Correcto
- Vincent Gallo, Hole's Eric Erlandson Form Improv Act
- New My Bloody Valentine Album Due This Year??
- Electrelane Go on “Indefinite Hiatus”
- Hot Chip Line Up 2008 Dates
- Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend Play Charity Concert in Memory of Ra Ra Riot's John Pike
- Radiohead Box Set: Label's Idea, Not Band's
- Sub Pop Opens Digital Download Store
- Lily Allen, Lingerie Model
- Girl Talk Tours Into 2008
- Hello, Blue Roses [ft. Dan Bejar] Reveal LP Details
- Wilco Add Bonus Tracks to Sky Blue Sky
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Singles Comp Due Soon
- Faint Guitarist's Metal Side Project Preps LP for Relapse
- Del the Funky Homosapien Signs to Def Jux for New LP
- Ghostface Doll Finally Available
- Photos: Tanned Tin Festival [Castellon, Spain; 10/31-11/04/07]
- Photos: Pylon [Atlanta, GA; 11/01/07]
- Radiohead Rainbows CD Due Via ATO New Year's Day?
- Raveonettes Sign to Vice, Overload on Lust for New LP
- Hold Steady, Black Lips, Deerhunter Join ATP vs. P4k
- LSF's Harrington Plays Mosquito in Commercial
- White Stripes Ready New Mystery Songs, Collab, Video
- Sufjan Stevens Tours Australia, Japan in January
- Photos: SunnO))) / Jesu [Portland, OR; 11/03/07]
- Carrie Brownstein Blogs for NPR
- Weller, Coxon, Rourke, Ditto Do Wacky Charity Collab
- PJ Harvey Preps "Piano" Single, Plays Shows
- Photos: Modest Mouse / Man Man [Edmonton, Alberta; 11/03/07]
- Un-T.V. Eye: November 5-11, 2007
- Photos: ATP Presents Release the Bats [London, England; 11/02/07]
- Franz Ferdinand Subject of New Book
- Yeasayer Close Out 2007 With Live Dates
- Photos: Fun Fun Fun Fest [Austin, TX; 11/03 - 11/04/07]
- Loney, Dear's Sologne Reissued in the States
- Grizzly Bear, Belle & Sebastian Members <3 the City
- The Magnetic Fields Announce 2008 Dates
- Radiohead's First Seven LPs Collected in Box Set
- Bjork, Sufjan, Newsom, Brian Wilson Play Sydney Fest
- Andrew W.K., Malajube, Bon Iver Do Madison Pop Fest
- Man Man Sign to Anti- Records
- Mount Eerie Unleashes Massive Photo Tome With LP
- Richard Youngs Preps Response for Jagjaguwar
- Morrissey Close to New Label Deal, Plans New LP, Tour
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig in for New LP
- New From Dust-to-Digital: Field Recordings, Tuvan Throat Singing, Global Music, Old Music
- Califone Hit the Road With Iron & Wine
- A Place to Bury Strangers Add Dates to Tour
- Suicide, Liquid Liquid on Downtown 81 Soundtrack
- Destroyer, Black Mountain Play Scratch Records Parties
- Oldham, Sweeney, W.K. on Baby Dee's Drag City Debut
- YACHT, Islands, Elverum Bring Noodles to NYC
- Sonic Youth, Low Play Don't Look Back Down Under
- Bright Eyes Guys Help Lightspeed Champ Cross Bridge
- Thao Nguyen Signs to Kill Rock Stars for Second LP
- Photos: World Premiere of Sufjan Stevens' "BQE" [Brooklyn, NY; 11/01/07]
- Dominik Eulberg to Issue Bionik in December
- Dirty on Purpose Decide They Like Bees on New EP
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Name New Album
- Photos: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / The Pogues [Los Angeles, CA; 10/31/07]
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Sufjan's "BQE"
- Chamberlin Sick, Pumpkins Reschedule Dates
- Daniel Johnston, Lightning Bolt's Chippendale Show Art
- Darnielle Writes About Sabbath, Drew Daniel Writes About Throbbing Gristle, Plus More 33 1/3 Series News
- Decemberists Cancel Rest of "Long and Short of It" Tour
- The Rumble Strips Come to America
- Michaels Showalter & Ian Black Tour Together
- Interpol Expand Love With DVD, Prep Single
- Photos: M.I.A. [Atlanta, GA; 10/31/07]
- Isis 10th Anniversary Bash: Two Singles, One Tour
- Reactivated Pylon Embark on Fall Tour
- Photos: The B-52's / The Rapture [New York, NY; 10/31/07]
- Robert Pollard Attack! Two More LPs, Art Show/Book
- Lil Wayne Precedes Tha Carter III With Leak
- Photos: The Hold Steady / Art Brut [Chicago, IL; 10/31/07]
- Feist, Kevin Drew, Okkervil, Deacon Play Laneway Fest
- Ex-Ramones Manager/Seymour Stein's Ex-Wife Slain
- Thrill Jockey Reveals Chicago Anniversary Bash Details
- PB&J;'s Peter Moren Reveals More Solo Album Details
- The Shins Cover Magnetic Fields on New Single
- Black Lips = Movie Stars
- Trail of Dead's Keely Tears Interscope a New One
- Arthur & Yu Tour With Kevin Drew, Iron & Wine (Again)
- Radiohead/XL Deal: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- Okkervil River Extend Tour Into 2008
- Cryptacize Hope You'll Dig That Treasure in February
- Modest Mouse/Man Man Tour Kicks Off Tonight
- Tweedy, Strummer in Wilco Documentarian Jones' Book
- Malajube Kick Off Tour
- B-52's Craft Funplex, First Studio LP in 16 Years
- Pink Floyd Studio Catalogue Reissued in Box Set
- Stars Announce 2008 Dates
- Jay-Z Tapes Episode of VH1 "Storytellers"
- Sunset Rubdown, Final Fantasy Draw Sea Monsters
- Helio Sequence Keep Looking Ahead on New LP, Tour
- Band of Horses Launch Tour
- Patrick Wolf Starts Label, Plans Reissues, Takes Photos
- Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound LP Gets Release Date
- Frog Eyes, Bejar's Hello Blue Roses Split a Single
- Secretly Canadian Signs Seattle's Throw Me the Statue
- Photos: Vegoose Festival [Las Vegas, NV; 10/27/07-10/28/07]
- Black Keys, Six Parts Seven, GBV Members on All-Ohio Comp
- Love of Diagrams Embark on Fall Tour With Enon
- Gold Standard Laboratories Closing Its Doors
- Roisin Murphy Injures Eye Socket at Moscow Gig
- Iron & Wine Announces 2008 Dates
- Six Organs Craft Exclusive CD for Co-Written Book
- Goldfrapp Reveal New LP Details
- Best of Common's Early Years Collected on Hits Comp
- Modeselektor, Poirier, Yellowman, TTC on Scion 12"s
- Menomena's Seim Blogs, Preps New Lackthereof Album
- Sons & Daughters Return With a Gift on New LP
- Bon Iver Signs to Jagjaguwar
- T.V. Eye: October 29-November 4, 2007
- Spoon, Explosions, Aesop Rock Play Antipop Fest
- Photos: Kevin Drew [Portland, OR; 10/27/07]
- Devendra Banhart Exhibits Art at San Fran MOMA
- Photos: The Decemberists [Chicago, IL; 10/28/07]
- Kanye Writes a Book of "Kanye-isms"
- Flaming Lips Play OK Show With Country Superstars
- Photos: Jens Lekman [Philadelphia, PA; 10/26/07]
- Robyn's Robyn Finally Coming Stateside in 2008
- Country Music Legend Porter Wagoner, 1927-2007
- Pumpkins Prep Another Best Buy-Only Zeitgeist
- New Magnetic Fields Album Gets Release Date, Title
- Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, Why? Members Help AIDS Orphans
- PB&J; Nab Besnard Lakes as Openers; Peter Goes Solo
- Natalie Portman's Mixtape Tracklist Revealed
- Ipecac Recordings Roster Becomes Toys
- Le Loup Sign to Memphis Industries in the UK, Tour
- Burrito Brothers Set Kicks Off Parsons Archival Series
- Caribou Extends Tour
- Georgie James Cancel Dates Due to Illness
- Decemberists Kick Off "Long and Short of It" Tour
- Photos: The Pipettes [Los Angeles, CA; 10/25/07]
- Beirut, Black Lips, Edwyn Collins, Yeasayer Play Swn
- Russian Circles Sign to Suicide Squeeze
- Clipse Leave Jive/Star Trak for Columbia
- Naked Raygun Tour, Release CD/DVD Retrospective
- Natalie Portman Curates Indie Rock Charity Mix
- New Ballet Set to El-P's Music
- Wilco Nix UK Gigs, Add 2008 Dates
- Thievery Corp's Garza Reveals Galaxy Details, Tour
- Queens of the Stone Age to Play Salt Mine, Add Dates
- Busdriver Hits the Road Tonight for Fall Tour
- Beanie Sigel to Offer The Solution in December
- Photos: Bright Eyes / Simon Joyner [Omaha, NE; 10/24/07]
- Photos: Mum / Our Brother the Native / Tom Brosseau [Los Angeles, CA; 10/24/07]
- Os Mutantes Working on New Tunes With Tom Ze
- Photos: Stars / New Buffalo [Philadelphia, PA; 10/24/07]
- Saul Williams Gives Away New Reznor-Produced LP
- Sly and the Family Stone Schedule U.S. Shows
- Decemberists, Death Cab, Lily Allen on XRT Live Comp
- The Pipettes Kick Off Rescheduled Tour
- Mac McCaughan Discusses "Future of Radio" in Senate
- Xiu Xiu Reveal New Album Details
- OiNK Founder: "I Haven't Done Anything Wrong"
- Goldfrapp Wrap LP; Gregory, Portishead's Utley Collab
- "Severe Illness" Tanks Underworld Tour
- Tapes 'n Tapes' Grier Checks in From the Studio
- Charalambides Ready Likeness LP, Tour
- The Valerie Project Reveal LP Details, More Dates
- Ex-Fugazi Roundup: Evens Tour, Joe Lally Tour/LP
- Flaming Lips Do Another Song for a Movie Soundtrack
- GZA Added to Portishead ATP, Doing Swords in London
- Xiu Xiu Book Bumped, Bonus CD Tracklist Revealed
- Photos: The Hold Steady / Art Brut [Philadelphia, PA; 10/23/07]
- The Rapture Release "The Sound" as New Single
- Blood Brothers Still Together...For Now
- Liars Give Away Liars Demos
- Califone, Dirty Projectors, Black Moth on Esopus Comp
- Rakim Talks New Album, Tour, History Lessons
- Bob Dylan Releases DVD of Newport Performances
- Crystal Castles, New Puritans, Teenagers Do Vice Tour
- Mum Spread Poison Ivy on Tour
- Vanderhoof Leaves Akron/Family for Buddhist Center
- Portishead Album One Day From Completion
- Jens Lekman Kicks Off U.S. Tour Tonight
- Merge Preps New American Music Club, Radar Bros. LPs
- The Cool Kids Sign to Chocolate Industries
- Mars Volta Head to Bedlam in January, Plan NYE Show
- Photos: Glass Candy / Bunny Rabbit / High Places / Partyline [Chicago, IL; 10/20/07]
- Daniel A.I.U. Higgs Exhibits Art, Tours
- Radiohead Eyeing Unique Label Deals for Rainbows CD
- Illegal Torrent Site OiNK Busted by Police
- Blitzen Trapper Saddle Up for More Live Dates
- Stars of the Lid Plan Fall Tour
- Les Savy Fav, Phosphorescent, Bazan Play Troika Fest
- Will Oldham Covers R. Kelly, Bjork, Danzig on New LP
- Einsturzende Neubauten Uber Alles on New LP
- J Church's Lance Hahn R.I.P.
- Patrick Wolf, Rufus Wainwright Perform Plague Songs
- Villalobos, Shackleton, Appleblim on Skull Disco Comp
- T.V. Eye: October 22-28, 2007
- Trail of Dead Leave Interscope, Reveal Tour Dates
- Fuck Buttons See "Bright Tomorrow" on Single
- Jay-Z Announces Fall Dates
- Photos: Joanna Newsom with Orchestra [Milwaukee, WI; 10/21/07]
- RZA Bumps Wu's 8 Diagrams Back to Please Ghostface
- Killing Joke/Ministry Bassist Paul Raven R.I.P.
- A Place to Bury Strangers Shut Down by Cops, Tour
- Black Lips Add Dates, Get Remixed by Diplo
- Pearls and Brass' Huth Goes Solo on Drag City
- Harmonia Reunite for Concert, Live LP
- Supersilent Set to Unleash LP 8 in the States
- U.S. Customs Clears Chris Walla's Hard Drive
- Les Savy Fav, Hot Chip, No Age Join ATP vs. Pitchfork
- Swervedriver to Reunite for World Tour Next Year
- Times New Viking Issue Matador Debut in January
- RZA Wins Chess Competition!
- Nas Reveals Greatest Hits, Talks Controversial LP Title
- Devendra Banhart Plots European Trek for November
- CSS, Ulrich Schnauss Remix Asobi Seksu on New Single
- Mick Jones' Carbon/Silicon Prepare Debut LP
- Deerhunter Add Dates, Atlas Sound Tracklist Revealed
- CMJ: Thursday [Marc Hogan]
- Joanna Newsom Kicks Off Orchestral Tour
- CMJ: Thursday [Zach Baron]
- Yo La Tengo Announce Hanukkah Shows
- New Book, CD, and Tour for Tara Jane O'Neil
- CMJ: Thursday [Amy Phillips]
- New Kurt Cobain Film in the Works
- Folk Icon Karen Dalton's Early Recordings Collected
- Burial to Issue Second LP, Untrue, Next Month
- Oasis Find the "Lord" on New Single, Documentary DVD
- Hold Steady, Springsteen on Hard Rock Charity Comp
- Johnny Marr Named University Professor
- Photos: The Go! Team [Portland, OR; 10/17/07]
- Rafter Crafts Sex Death Cassette for Asthmatic Kitty
- Radiohead, Pumpkins, Mondays on Oakenfold Comp
- N.W.A. Compton Reissue, Eazy-E Comp Due
- Lemonheads Tour, Dando Opens for JAMC
- My Morning Jacket, Pajo Cover Misfits on Comp
- CMJ: Wednesday [Amy Phillips]
- Vampire Weekend to Open for the Shins
- Radiohead 2008 Tour Tidbits Emerge
- Bjork Expands World Tour
- CMJ: Wednesday [Marc Hogan]
- Rivers Cuomo Dishes on New Weezer LP, Alone Demos
- CMJ: Wednesday [Zach Baron]
- Neko Case Reissues Debut
- School of Seven Bells Hop on Prefuse Tour
- Mike Patton to Voice Bionic Commando in Video Game
- Shugo Tokumaru to Make a Quick Exit
- Clientele, Martsch, Germano on Bigtop Soundtrack
- M.I.A. Stretches Out Tour
- Company Flow to Reunite?
- Mobb Deep's Prodigy Given 3 1/2 Year Sentence
- Of Montreal Expand Tour, Launch Blog
- Dinosaur Jr. Ready Fall Tour Plans
- Ghost Release Spooky Live Overture CD/DVD
- Eels Best Of, Rarities Comp Due in January
- Kanye, Beanie, Juelz Pay Tribute to Jay-Z's Doubt
- Elliott Smith's Ex-Girlfriend Denied Earnings
- Black Kids Have a Manager, Gigs, No Label Yet
- U2 Beef Up Joshua Tree for 20th Anniversary Reissues
- Enon's Schmersal Explains Taco Bell Contest Entry
- Butthole Surfers' Haynes Joins Rockin' Children for Tour
- Melt-Banana Kick Off Big Fall Tour
- Lips Expand Zaireeka for 10th Anniversary Parties
- Cat Power's Jukebox Tracklist, Cover Art Revealed
- Death Cab's Chris Walla: Threat to Homeland Security?
- Cass McCombs Plans Tours With Gonzalez, Ariel Pink
- Jesus and Mary Chain Cancel Vegas Date
- Cat Power, YLT, MMJ, Roots Fete Dylan in Concert
- His Name Is Alive Cut Marion Brown Tribute Disc
- Simian Mobile Disco Issue New "Hustler" Single, Tour
- Ghostface Upset About Wu-Tang Release Date
- Castanets Rock Asthmatic Kitty Gallery Opening
- Photos: Final Fantasy [Minneapolis, MN; 10/13/07]
- Bright Eyes, Wolf Parade, BOH Do Charity Ornaments
- Photos: The Roots [San Diego, CA; 10/12/07]
- Annuals Sign to Sony, Drop Digital EP
- Kid Sister Shoots Video With Kanye West
- OK Computer Radio Play to Debut on BBC This Friday
- Daft Punk Sample Material Collected on New CD
- CMJ Music Marathon Starts in NYC Today
- Photos: Queens of the Stone Age [New York, NY; 10/13/07]
- Weezer's Cuomo Compiles Demos for Release
- Liars Cover Nirvana on Live DVD / Single
- T.V. Eye: October 15-21
- Cornelius Announces 2008 Tour
- Devendra, Matmos, Vetiver Share Bad Trips for Book
- Photos: Beirut [Hollywood, CA; 10/12/07]
- The Killers Prep Rarities Comp, Do Xmas Single, Tour
- Hot Chip's Taylor Talks LP, Alicia Keys, Rilo Remixes
- Fiery Furnaces, Ariel Pink, Dr. Dog Do Autumn Fest
- Bob Mould Signs to Anti-, Preps District Line
- Photos: The Thermals Shoot a Music Video [Portland, OR; 10/14/07]
- T.I. Arrested on Gun Charge
- Psychic TV's Lady Jaye R.I.P.
- Photos: Nick Cave [Melbourne, Australia; 10/13/07]
- White House Weighs in on Radiohead
- Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ Show Split Xmas 7"
- John Pugh Talks !!! Departure, Free Blood