This week in bands reuniting…Faith No More AND the Faces?

Frank Black is producing Art Brut’s new album

The Muslims change their name to The Soft Pack

Clever spinoff alert…go check out I Can Has Hipster

Chromewaves, Largehearted Boy, Fluxblog, Said the Gramophone and others launch a new group blog called MBV

And, Largehearted Boy also posted his own list of favorite albums from 2008

Microsoft launches an unsigned band site, cleverly titled MSN Unsigned

Bishop Allen’s new album Grrr… will be out March 10th on Dead Oceans

Rostam Batmanglij talks about Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album, now in the writing phase

Madonna’s most recent tour is on pace to gross $282 million after already netting $91.5 million so far