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Courtney Love, one of rock's great OG bloggers
, posted another brilliant (not brilliant) open letter on
MySpace. In it she accuses fellow blogger/musician Ryan Adams of using ,000 of Frances Bean Cobain's money to fund his 2003 album Rock n Roll , ...
Old Anti-folk stars never die, they just end
up on The View . That's right, this morning
those Moldy Peaches Adam and Kimya met up with Barbara, Whoopi, and the rest of the gang to perform "Anyone Else But You," the tune recently re-popularized by ...
As mentioned in a surprisingly heated discussion on
this site last month, the folks behind teenage music
geek rom-com Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist have tapped the indie rock zeitgeist in a big way. Bishop Allen, Devendra Banhart, and Project ...
We gave you the details on the Decemberists'
forthcoming Always The Bridesmaid 12" series , that "Valerie
Plame," the first track on the first volume, is from -- to quote the press release -- "the point-of-view of one of Plame's inside contacts upon ...
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AAA lovin', no-really-it's-up-to-you subscribin' music rag Paste doesn't
offer up the year's first best-of list of the
year (that honor goes to Stylus, may they R.I.P. ), but they do offer the first in what may be a hott trend this list-making ...
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Hot on the heels of Oscar night, we
have the aforementioned soundtrack tune from LCD Soundsystem, which
was commissioned for the forthcoming math-kids-counting-cards-in-Vegas Robert Luketic-directed film 21 starring Kevin Spacey (as a math prof), ...
Everything's coming up Dylan. As mentioned, a lot
of folks we like got together to cover the
car salesman Mr. Zimmerman as part of the I'm Not There soundtrack. We pointed out streams for Dylan takes by Sufjan, Calexico with Jim James, and Cat ...
In the December issue of Blender , the
magazine's editors have compiled what they see as the
"The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever," opening with this little graph: Mumbled lyrics, couldn’t-care-less strumming, white dudes in ...
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Last Saturday night, while out in Brooklyn, we
met a PA who worked a T-Mobile video shoot
with of Montreal, also mentioning that Art Brut shot a commercial for the same campaign earlier in the day. oM's went down at Waldorf, while Art Brut filmed at ...
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In what's fast becoming a Stereogum tradition, we've
once again conspired with master bootlegger team9 for a
celebration of the year in singles. Of course "the year in singles" is a loaded term coming from us -- relatively massive as they are, Arcade ...
Only for the sexiest woman alive would we
slosh around the East Village in this winter mess
for a listening party. Last night at Joe's Pub, Stereogum got a preview of Scarlett Johansson's forthcoming Tom Waits covers album, a project we've been ...
If you happened to be watching the Fox
News Channel at 3AM this past Friday -- like
who wasn't? -- you may have caught a sorta surreal happening on Red Eye : After the Take-Away strains of Real Emotional Trash favorite "We Can't Help You," Steve ...
Great R.E.M. interview? Or the greatest R.E.M. interview?
The Athenians' charm offensive is on full throttle between
the La Blogs and the happy, sort of bashful turns on the Today show and last night's Colbert, but there was something extra special ...
Red has been leaking bit by bit --
three songs here, four songs there -- and so
far we're all a little less than enthused. Remember when people were enthused, though? Way back when we first sampled " Pork And Beans "? It has an official video now. ...
As always, Stereogum is your one stop shop
for Santi White litigation and tourdates news. Santogold's sorta
blowing up, right? Cue the lawsuits. It's not everyday I get to use my entirely rusted law school skills, so thanks to the Lustigman Firm, ...
There aren't many voices that can do justice
to a Thom Yorke melody. We saw a bunch
of our favorite bands take on the OK Computer movements with OKX to varying results. Fortunately for Gnarls Barkley's have at it, they happen to have of the better ...
Welcome to the post where we finally give
you guys Jenny Lewis's phone number. Oh, hi Google.
In the same way we gave you Arcade Fire's phone number, though. (Remember 866-NEON-BIBLE , back when it streamed "Intervention" and didn't lead to a chat ...
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Your Tuesday afternoon just got 100% more great.
"Golden Age" is the first listen from TV On
The Radio's forthcoming return from Cookie Mountain , titled Dear Science, (comma included, thinking its epistolary). It will probably make you dance. Don't ...
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Get psyched, Coke Zero and 007 are teaming
up to promote curiously named blockbuster-to-be Quantum Of Solace
(watch the trailer here ). Kicking off this integrated marketing campaign is an animated James Bond-themed Coke Zero commercial featuring car ...
OK! You guys didn't sleep? Neither did we.
Just got the magic email from W.A.S.T.E. Zip is
downloading. We'll post our thoughts here throughout the day, as well as the best of your comments. And let's make it fun: sign-off your post with how much ...


















Courtney Love: Ryan Adams Stole $858k From Frances Bean