Brian Eno creates an iPhone application
Tickets for the Dec. 16th Walkmen/Dodos show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple are now on sale, go ‘git some
Today in album title news…M. Ward unveils the name of his latest effort, Hold Time, due out this February
AND, Animal Collective also confirmed their new album Merriweather Post Pavilion, out January 20th
Watch the video for Department of Eagles’ track “Herringbone”
Ha! Take That…reunites with Robbie Williams
Chinese Democracy gets an honest to goodness release date: November 23rd at Best Buy
Prefix has pics of Franz Ferdinand’s “intimate” show at Music Hall of Williamsburg
The New York Times reviews the first night of Beck at the United Palace Theater and notes how somber he is
Lars Ulrich to sell Basquiat’s “Untitled (Boxer)” painting
What do you get for two million MySpace friends and 26 million streams?
A drunken conversation led to the formation of Nick Thorburn’s newest band, Reefer
The Decemberists reveal new album title….Hazards of Love
NYC Taper has audio from the Naked Hearts’ October 6th Mercury Lounge show
Pitchfork has a live review of Pop Montreal
Jim James injured in stage fall
My Old Kentucky Blog debuts the new video for “Colors” by Arizona
The Guardian: What pop and rock music need right now is a dose of doo-wop
Crawdaddy! reviews Pale Young Gentlemen’s Black Forest (Tra La La)
The New York Times visits the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne at his home in Oklahoma
Foo Fighters blast McCain’s use of “My Hero”
Charlie Kaufman is now a songwriter too?
Behold Mufin, yet another music-recommendation service
Department of Eagles and Grizzly Bear promise they all still love each other
Devo will play a rare show in its hometown of Akron, Ohio, with proceeds to benefit the Summit County Democratic Party/Barack Obama
Largethearted Boy: Try It Before You Buy It (October 7th Music Releases)
Jarvis Cocker delivered a lecture on the art of lyrics as part of Manchester’s ‘In The City’ music conference
Madonna has banned US Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin from attending her concerts
Paul McCartney is “furious” that McDonalds have hung photographs of The Beatles up in their Liverpool restaurant
Forest Whitaker to direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic
Islands Cover Spiritualized, Sinead on iTunes EP
Faith No More, TV On the Radio and Anticon form supergroup
Pink Floyd rejected from this year’s Glastonbury festival due to the logistics of major festival programming
“The moment things began to turn around in Iraq is when the USO deployed Jessica Simpson,” said President Bush at a USO benefit recently
NPR: Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville Live
Prolific Magazine: 8 Best Get-Over-A-Break-Up Albums
Largethearted Boy: This Week’s Interesting Music Releases
BrooklynVegan: Lykke Li adds 3rd NYC show, acoustic @ Bootleg @ Santos
Kanye: New Album Coming Nov. 25
Jay-Z: Guesting on New Coldplay EP
Chrissie Hynde: Rock Is “Flabby and Stupid” Now
Boredoms: 77BoaDrum on Deluxe CD/DVD
Aquarium Drunkard: The Beach Boys :: Rehearsals 1967
RIP: Kingston Trio co-founder Reynolds dies
Weezer: sets Guiness World Records with “Troublemaker” video
The Register: China’s nonstop music machine
Lemmy Kilmister: (on his current fixations) “Women with three tits. You don’t get a lot of ‘em, y’know. You gotta look carefully”
Alice In Chains: to record first album in 13 years
Miley Cyrus: Sweet 16 Birthday Party at Disneyland
Condemned to Rock ‘N Roll finished a graduate thesis on music blogging… Does NME even know what a music blog is?: The rhetoric and social meaning of MP3 blogs (one of the sources being yours truly)
Coachella Moves 2009 Dates Up Two Weeks
Lil Wayne Already Recording Tha Carter IV
The Daily News talks to Chrissie Hynde
Yet another take on an obvious trend… Vinyl revival: How a dead format came back for another spin
Vampire Weekend Obama Show Canceled
Depeche Mode (currently in a New York studio recording their 12th album) announce 2009 European tour
Bruce Springsteen Inspires Voters With Passionate Acoustic Set at Philadelphia Rally
Wired: Remix Sarah Palin
Country album sales were down 16.7% through the end of the third quarter
Obama, McCain and the Musicians who Love (and Hate) Them
Fluxblog has just posted part five of an interview with Amanda Petrusich (be sure to check out the whole interview)
Idolator: Music On The Web: Where It Was Then
Heart on a Stick: All They Will Find is My Beer and My Shirt (Recession Rock! Get Your Poor On!)
BrooklynVegan: official 2008 BrooklynVegan CMJ showcase announcement
LimeWire Music Blog: 10 Songs Cat Power Hasn’t Covered (But Should)
Information Leafblower has pics from The Black Kids @ Black Cat
Merry Swankster: After the Jump @ Pop Montreal
Another perfect playlist from Moka: Witchdoctor Dance & Thunderstorm Brewing
Nerd Litter is ANGRY
Nothing But Green Lights: Playlist #2… “Tuning up the radio: From feedback & fuzz to bright & gleaming tunes”
Subinev: 10 Bands From Maine That I Want You To Hear
BrooklynVegan: BELL played SoundFix (pics)
As NYCTaper told us back in mid-August, Phish is indeed reuniting for 2009 shows
Jay-Z will play two free concerts this weekend in support of voter registration and the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama
Exclusive preview: Bob Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs
Even heavy metal fans complain
that today’s music is too darn loud
8 raunchiest rap songs kids love to sing
COED Magazine takes concert voyeurism to the next level with the girls of Austin City Limits
PopMatters: the lost mystery of record collections
The Deadbolt lists the top 16 rappers of the ’80s
Activision CEO: labels owe them money for putting their bands in Guitar Hero, not the other way around
Robert Plant denies rumors about Led Zeppelin touring next year
The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Fall 2008
90s alternative vets Letters to Cleo return for a handful of shows, including Bowery Ballroom on Dec 11th
These United States return to Daytrotter
The Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis does Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes
While on the culinary tip, how about the 29-year old music company owner that tried his hand at running a winery?
Download Mercury Rev’s new album for free
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel team up to bring Obamamania to New York
Stream the new Decemberists song “Valerie Plame”
Kurt Cobain’s ashes to get….smoked?
In-game ads coming soon to Guitar Hero and other Activision games
Make sure to sign up to attend 2008 KEXP live sessions during CMJ
FREEwilliamsburg has pics of the Dodos at Spiegelworld from Monday
Gothamist interviews New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones
Check out Largehearted Boy’s list of music releases for this week (September 30th, 2008)
The Vulture blog asks, who will write the Ghostbusters 3 theme song?
eMusic’s CEO David Pakman is OUT
Stereogum has video of a new non-album Department of Eagles song, “1997″
Britney Spears’ ex confirms plans of cashing in on sex tape of her
The AV Club’s Amelie Gillette offers further adventures in press releases: the Katy Perry doll
Brooklyn Vegan has new MP3s, tour dates, and album info about These Unites States
In addition to Dinosaur Jr., NYC Taper also has audio from Friday’s Built to Spill set at Terminal 5
Rolling Stone’s Readers’ Rock List: Money Songs
Caribou wins the 2008 Polaris Prize
Bruce Springsteen to play this year’s Super Bowl Halftime show
Best Buy snags Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy retail exclusive
Madonna fined 135,000 pounds for breaking Wembley Stadium curfew
Watch TV on the Radio play outside at Letterman
For more outside music, watch the Walkmen’s Take Away Show in San Francisco
The Rosebuds announce tour for Life Like, in NYC on Oct 24-25
DJ AM released from hospital after plane crash
Wal-Mart pushes customers off the DRM fence
The AV Club reports on Day One and Day Two of Austin City Limits
The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews Willie Nelson’s Friday show at the Tower Theater
Kanye West won’t face charges in LAX scuffle
Obama gives a shout-out to hip-hop
NYC Taper has audio from Friday’s Dinosaur Jr. set at Terminal 5
Led Zeppelin finally agrees to tour next summer
Lil’ Wayne gets his own blog on ESPN
A happy ending….R.E.M.’s Peter Buck finally gets his stolen guitar back
Village Voice interviews Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, in which he reveals he has a spreadsheet detailing every show they’ve ever played
Spike.com lists the 10 worst songs that hit #1
And for good measure, a list of the least sexy lyrics of all time
The loudness war rages on!
egads, Perez Hilton has released his first single?
Watch the trailer for the upcoming Biggie biopic Notorious
Arizona premiered their new album on WOXY the other day
VH1 crowns “Fight the Power” as the best hip-hop song of all time
Muxtape to reinvent itself, RIAA shutdown explained
Behold Nick Cave’s biblical blues
Rolling Stone has live video of Built to Spill playing “I Would Hurt A Fly” at last weekend’s All Tomorrow’s Parties
The Austin American-Statesman looks at all the after parties that have cropped up around the Austin City Limits Festival
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon tries her hand as clothing designer
Mercury Lounge’s CMJ lineups have been announced
Franz Ferdinand complete their third album
Bono blogs about the Millenium Development Goals Summit for the Financial Times
Old vs. new, classics vs. contemporary, the battle for the soundtrack of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
Metallica hit back at Death Magnetic quality claims
Hard Rock Theme Park files Chapter 11 bankruptcy claim
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler sues unknown bloggers impersonating him online
MySpace Music has launched?
Pitchfork reviews last weekend’s ATP Festival
Watch the new Deerhoof video for “Get Born”
Pavement’s Brighten The Corners reissued
Juliana Hatfield participates in Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes feature
Ray Davies says Kinks could reunite
Clay Aiken finally comes out of the closet
The Chicago Tribune poses - and answers - five questions about the accordion
The Vulture Blog talks to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlitt about crafting their Chinese opera
18 AC/DC concerts sell out in record time for their upcoming Black Ice tour
Google teams with Amazon for mobile music store
Here’s what physical music media needs to do to survive in the 21st century….
Which celebrity has the worst band?
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James to play Obama benefit
Soundbite alert…SPIN interviews Noel Gallagher
Weezer to head directly back into the studio this November after the conclusion of their tour
Stereogum premieres a new Vampire Weekend song, “Ottoman”
And while we’re at it, here’s a new Beach House song, “Used To Be”
Add this one to yesterday’s Countdown…Kirk Hammett says “We’re always going to be in Metallica, even if we break up”
Miley Cyrus says she’s still committed to Hannah Montana
The Vulture blog was at the Feelies’ show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday
Ryan Adams compares the new Oasis album to Radiohead’s Kid A
Sequins alert: The Killers and Elton John to release a Christmas single together
Smashing Pumpkins announce tour with two dates at NYC’s United Palace
Mogwai drummer hospitalized, US dates cancelled
After The Jump announces a great Pop Montreal show
Surprise surprise: Pitchfork gives TV on the Radio’s Dear Science a 9-something
Blink 182’s Travis Barker seriously injured in plane crash over the weekend
Led Zeppelin give Robert Plant an ultimatum and begin auditioning a new singer
Boston rockers reinvent themselves from mosh pits to kids shows
Drowned in Sound has pics from our Countdown subjects Metallica playing at London’s O2 Dome
Is MySpace Music deliberately blocking indies?
Ani DiFranco visits Daytrotter
Stereogum has photos and videos from My Bloody Valentine’s show at All Tomorrow’s Parties
The New York Times’ Jon Pareles also visited ATP and does a full round-up
Next year’s Glastonbury headliners to be confirmed pretty soon
CNN looks at websites that allow users to invest in bands