San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival goes down the weekend of October 16 and 17 on the actual Treasure Island, which is located just next to the Bay Bridge with a view of the Golden Gate in the distance. The 2 day fest announced their 2010 line-up today, which includes headliners LCD Soundsystem, Deadmau5, Belle [...]

Burning, a new live concert film from Mogwai (directed by Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac of La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows), was shot at the band’s sold-out three-night residency at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg in April 2009. The Scottish post-rock band will release an accompanying live album with the film called Special Moves (tracklist [...]

The officially confirmed realness cover artwork for Drake’s Thank Me Later is not much to look at, and gives me blurry squinty-eye headaches, among other things. I was willing to forgive if this image was 3-D – but, I happen to have a pair of 3-D glasses on my desk (doesn’t everyone?), and I can [...]

As someone who grew up in Queens, had friends in metal bands, and played shows at L’amour, I feel the need to somehow commemorate the life of Peter Steele of Type O Negative (who died late last night of heart failure at the age of 48), even though A) I was not a fan, B) [...]

If there’s one good thing that comes out of me not splurging on Coachella tickets, it’s not having to choose between the last 20 minutes of MGMT’s set and Major Lazer. Anyway, the complete Coachella 2010 Set Time Schedule is up on the official site. For those of you who hesitated, LAT announced yesterday that [...]

That’s right, bitches.
AFP (Amanda F*cking Palmer) announced in a blog entry titled, “FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST,” that she has split from Roadrunner Records after a 2 year battle with the label. To commemorate the occasion, she is offering up a new song “legally and free of charge.”
now that i’m unshackled, i plan [...]

Soundgarden, eh? Smelled that one coming. Anyway, lots of goodies on this list. I still give the prize to Coachella.
Soundgarden
Green Day
Lady Gaga
Arcade Fire
The Strokes
Phoenix
Social Distortion
MGMT
Jimmy Cliff
Hot Chip
The Black Keys
The National
Spoon
Devo
Cypress Hill
Cut Copy
The New Pornographers
Erykah Badu
Slightly Stoopid
Grizzly Bear
Gogol Bordello
Chromeo
Wolfmother
Yeasayer
X Japan
MUTEMATH
Metric
Dirty Projectors
AFI
Mavis Staples
Matt & Kim
The xx
Drive-By Truckers
Blues Traveler
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
The Temper Trap
Jamie Lidell
Frightened Rabbit
F**k [...]

Oh boy.
Less than two weeks before its highly anticipated release, Columbia has announced that it has shelved MGMT’s sophomore album, Congratulations, indefinitely, and has dropped the band from the label. The album, which has been streaming on the band’s official site for about a week, has been the subject of much debate in the music [...]

Filmed for Dublab Internet Radio’s series “Visionversion,” El Guincho appropriately performs his tropical dance music live inside the simulated rain forest in the Natural History Museum of LA County. You can download the full audio from the session here, and watch the clip of “Kalise” from the best of 2008-ish Alegranza. (Fader)
Also, just spent 10 [...]

Limited edition 7″ of the Bored to Death theme song, anyone?
The folks at Recordstoreday.com recently put together a comprehensive list (also a pdf) of every release (so far) for Record Store Day 2010, which falls on April 17. This year, Record Store Day will see limited releases by everyone from Devo to Passion Pit, and [...]