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Nat Baldwin does Daytrotter, and reveals his fandom for the Boston Celtics

Those unable to make Bonnaroo take heed: here is the live webcast schedule

Beck reveals Modern Guilt album art, tracklisting, and release date (July 8th)

Metallica blames managers for taking down mostly positive reviews of their forthcoming album

My Morning Jacket playing Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve

Michael Stipe will be signing copies of the R.E.M. photo book Hello at McNally Robinson on 52 Prince Street on Sunday

AND on topic, watch R.E.M. cover Television with "See No Evil"

Pharrell Williams wants to produce the new Strokes album

Atlantic Records sues Stone Temple Pilots for trying to leave their contract early

Weezer invites fans to perform alongside them on tour

Music journalist quits over allegations he hired a ghost writer

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Free Geekery offers 100 FREE sources for (good) downloadable music

REMINDER: Reserve your Sonic Youth 4th of July tickets today

Social network for iPhone knows what you're listening to and where you are listening to it

Austrian dungeon victim wakes up to Robbie Williams after two-month coma

Will anyone sing for John McCain?

Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner handles this week's Guest List on Pitchfork

Mods & Rockers Film Festival in Hollywood opens June 26

Boy George to perform free show for NYC sanitation workers

Scott Storch is wanted by Miami-Dade police

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Following the release of Third and the announcement they will not play live again in 2008, Portishead goes crazy with solo projects

Reserve your tickets for Sonic Youth's Fourth of July show starting at noon on Thursday

Los Angeles Times: My Morning Jacket, Martha Wainwright benefit from oversharing

Stream the new Sigur Rós album in its entirety over at their website

Billy Bob Thornton pursues his first love with his band the Boxmasters

The Guardian blog: why rock can't shock any more

Bradford Cox, Eleanor Friedberger, and others join Converse's new campaign

Chuck Berry won't shill for John McCain even though his song's been appropriated for his campaign; he's an Obama supporter

Warner Music Group pulls its music from Last.fm

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Terrence Howard to release an album this fall?

Van Halen reunion grosses more than $93 million

Bob Dylan endorses Barack Obama

Members of Led Zeppelin to rock Wembley with Foo Fighters tonight?

More details emerge about Mastodon's "creepy" new album

American Idol runner-up David Archuleta signs a record deal

Last.fm jumps into live music with Bowery Presents

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Country star George Jones is getting a stolen guitar returned to him 46 years later

Why? forced to cancel tour dates as 2/3 of the band come down with the mumps

Yes also cancels their tour as lead singer Jon Anderson has fallen ill

Obama's nomination unleashes tide of questionable music blogging?

Dave Eggers handled "guest whistling duties" on Aimee Mann's new album

Check out Stereogum's Quit Your Day Job feature with Torche

Oneida set to release new album Preteen Weaponry on August 5 before releasing a triple album in 2009

Drowned in Sound interviews Silver Jews' David Berman

Liars to release digital-only Freak Out EP on July 8

Joy Division edition of Microsoft Zune available June 17

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The Minneapolis City Pages chats with R.E.M.'s Mike Mills

PopMatters: ten reasons Bo Diddley is the forgotten heavyweight champion of rock

Deerhoof's new album Offend Maggie is due out on October 7 on Kill Rock Stars, and they reveal more details too

Alton Kelley, the artist who helped create the psychedelic style of posters of the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, died Sunday at age 67

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have commenced recording their new album

NYC Taper examines whether music blog payola is a problem

Brooklyn Vegan has pics from Black Lips' Maxwell's show on Monday

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Stars pay tribute to Bo Diddley, who died yesterday of heart failure at age 79

Liam Gallagher's wife challenges Gordon Ramsay to a cookoff

PopMatters interviews Portishead

Paul McCartney plays "A Day In The Life" live as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club turns 41

Tori Amos leaves Epic Records and decides to go indie

The Streets' Mike Skinner reveals he will make two more albums and then call it quits

Coldplay to apparently release quick follow-up to Viva La Vida

Alice Cooper set to release a concept album about a spider serial killer

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Okkervil River announces tour - with two stops at Webster Hall Oct. 6-7 - and details of The Stand Ins

Prefix has this past weekend covered, with pics from Apes and Androids at Bowery, Wire at South Street Seaport, and Ponytail at the Knitting Factory

The Boston Globe is the latest to do a trend piece on the comeback of vinyl records

Morrissey sets September UK release date for ninth studio album, Years of Refusal

Pitchfork interviews Why?

The New York Times reviews Saturday's Stone Temple Pilots show....and is concerned about Weiland

Associated Press: Over the top MTV Movie Awards have smoke, no fire

Mastodon, Slayer, and Trivium line up November European tour dates together

Kurt Cobain's ashes stolen?

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Swap out your boring strum bar with a real guitar string via this Rock Band mod kit

Watch Beach House play a song they just wrote while on a train in Norway

Yahoo! Music considers the 25 Most Rockin' Guitar Riffs of all time

Steven Tyler went to rehab to find a "safe environment" where he could recover from foot surgery

David Cook has a record-breaking 11 new songs debuting on America's Hot 100 singles chart

My Morning Jacket confirmed to play Toronto's North By Northeast festival

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett commissioned to do the two-minute title sequences for BBC's broadcast of the Olympics

Sammy Hagar thinks his new band Chickenfoot - which also includes Chad Smith, Michael Anthony, and Joe Satriani - is as good as Led Zeppelin

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NME investigates the worst album covers ever

Sunset Rubdown do a Black Cab Session

Wired takes a look at some of the best new animated videos out there

Malawi court approves Madonna adoption

Cracked has 7 reasons why the new Kid Rock song may be the worst tune ever

R. Kelly's defense claiming music critic Jim DeRogatis is guilty of child pornography for handing over Kelly's sex tape to the cops????

Sony Music taps into its photo archive as a resource to use during hard times

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Stereogum does a premature evaluation of Weezer's forthcoming Red Album

Pick the song that will be inescapable by this time next month over at Idolator's 2008 Summer Jam Tournament

A Brooklyn man convicted of music piracy may face five years in prison

Smashing Pumpkins to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a tour and DVD

Check out Rainn Wilson's Sasquatch blog over at Rolling Stone

Ratatat announce small tour with a stop at Music Hall of Williamsburg July 15th

MuxFind lets you search and discover on Muxtape

Rock Band stage kit - complete with fog machine and stage lights - to come out this August for Xbox 360

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Prefix has a 3-part "illustrated review" of the recent Black Moth Super Rainbow/Subtle show at the Rock & Roll Hotel in D.C.

The Streets play first UK show in over a year

KEXP has a review of Day 2 of Sasquatch, and so does the A.V. Club

Yale gives Paul McCartney honorary music degree

Build your own mini music publication with Idiomag's new widget

MuchMusic counts down the 12 most powerful musicians of today

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KEXP has a review of Day One of Sasquatch

Is Blender going out of business?

Does music belong in humor? The A.V. Club rounds up 15 novelty songs from prominent funnymen

The Chicago Tribune has a piece about the effect of gas prices on touring musicians

And somewhat on topic, details emerge about Radiohead's green touring techniques

Check out the Mountain Goats Daytrotter session

Watch the video for the new Ratatat song "Mirando"

Peruse Pitchfork's guide to summer festivals

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Donewaiting sits down with Oneida for a great interview

Looks like Muxtape went down yesterday in a "perfect storm of elements", and EF lost our latest mux as a result

Head over to Daytrotter and listen to a recent set from Grand Archives

Augusten Burroughs is the latest author to contribute to Largehearted Boy's Book Notes column

Okkervil River plan new album, The Stand Ins, to be released September 9th

The Seattle Times has a preview of this weekend's Sasquatch Festival....from the perspective of the Sasquatch?

PopMatters reviews The National's new film A Skin, A Night

Mastodon taps producer Brendan O'Brien for their next album

Death Cab For Cutie scores their first number one album with Narrow Stairs

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'N Sync svengali Lou Pearlman sentenced to 25 years in prison

Sam Champion is Rolling Stone's Breaking Artist this week!

Red Hot Chili Peppers disband (for a year or so)

Steven Tyler checks into rehab after two decades of sobriety

And the winner is.....David Cook wins American Idol in a landslide

Sonic Youth reveal the details of their Starbucks hits compilation album

The National and Yeasayer confirmed for Summerstage

Weezer is on the June cover of Spin

Watch the trailer for Heavy Metal in Baghdad

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Listen to the new Silver Jews song from the forthcoming Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, "Strange Victory, Strange Defeat"

The Chicago Tribune looks at groupies through the years

R. Kelly's defense team wants Jim DeRogatis to testify

Death By Audio Records launches

The two Davids battle to become the 7th American Idol

Built to Spill plots new album, fall tour

Led Zeppelin will allegedly play four shows at the Toronto Skydome this August

NERD to make their own Hard Day's Night movie?

Witness a Kraft salad dressing commercial use a Flaming Lips song to sell their wares

Crawdaddy: Why the album isn't dead just yet

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Listen to the brand new Islands Daytrotter session, which includes a Brian Eno cover

Or, listen to Beck's latest jam "Chemtrails" from his forthcoming Modern Guilt album

Napster launches an MP3 store

Takka Takka's Migration LP due July 29th on Ernest Jennings Record Co.

Ra Ra Riot sign to Barsuk Records and also playing a free show w/RSVP on Thursday

Fuse TV will televise six hours of Bonnaroo for the first time this year

Bored? Learn how to set up a pirate radio station

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The Guardian blog has the 10 Most Memorable Festival Performances

Watch professionally shot footage of the entire Metallica set from Saturday's KROQ Weenie Roast over at Blabbermouth

Paul McCartney, Bloc Party, Morrissey among nominees for sexiest vegetarian award

Brian Wilson's That Lucky Old Sun album due in September

Juliana Hatfield to pen autobiography

After The Jump Fest Noise Stage lineup announced

David Bowie to bring The Man Who Fell to Earth to the theater stage

Brooklyn Vegan has pics and the setlist from last night's Beirut show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

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The Guardian blog talks about the subtle art of selecting supporting bands

New hope for accused file-sharer in RIAA suit

Konami introduces Rock Revolution video game to compete with Guitar Hero and Rock Band

The Seattle Times profiles Reggie Watts

Wedding Present re-team with Steve Albini on new album - El Rey - coming out this Tuesday

Shania Twain and super-producer Mutt Lange to split

Guitar tutorials are blazing up iTunes podcast charts

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Jon Brion to score Charlie Kaufman's new movie

Black Tide to play free L.A. show as part of James Frey's book tour

Guitar Hero IV will allow users to create and upload their own songs, while first images of the game's drum set have also been revealed

Neil Diamond's newest album Home Before Dark is the first of his 46th charting albums to reach number one

Watch the new Man Man video for "Mister Jung Stuffed"

Santogold records song with Julian Casablancas and Pharrell Williams for Converse

And in other shoe collaboration news, Saul Williams pairs with Nike

Local H played every single song in its catalog during a recent seven-night Chicago stand

The Office's Creed Bratton is also a platinum-selling recording artist?