On the new site ShredOrDie -- a member of the OrDie Network -- skating legend Tony Hawk (did he ever find Animal Chin, btw?) interviews Isaac Brock and Johnny Marr before the start of one of Modest Mouse's shows. Yes, we're serious ... even about the site's name. Hawk does a pretty good job, getting Brock to talk about how MM landed Marr and asking the ex-Smith about his workout regimen back in the day (A: smoke a lot). Best moments: Brock subtly schooling Hawk on Treepeople and Hawk explaining that when you break your pelvis it hurts like hell to laugh, sneeze. Brock: "Which I imagine comes up."

"This dude is much hipper than me." Except when you're bugging him with your loud stereo, young Isaac! For his part, Johnny seems much more adjusted than Morrissey. Which, admittedly, doesn't seem too hard. - Source

SXSW decided not to host a torrent of their 2008 showcasing artists this year. For those of you that are missing it, Egregious Thoughts decided to create one himself. You can download it here.  764 artists, 3.5GB, for free. - Source

Long-time space voyagers are going to be perfectly at home with The Dream. - Source

Congratulations, All Points West festival! You've got an ace up your sleeves, so to speak, what with your pair of Radioheads and, now, a duo of stories in Pitchfork news within the same 24 hour period! Where can you go from here? Why, into big announcement mode? We'll join you. - Source

The Kooks have announced a headlining tour of North America to support the release of their second album. - Source

Tegan and Sara have announced a tour of the US, which will follow their imminent jaunt in the UK and Europe. - Source

Research has proved that music can help stroke victims, aid weight loss and give you a better night's sleep. - Source

Songs In A&E is out on May 19th.Complete track listing:

1. Harmony 1
2. Sweet Talk
3. Death Take Your Fiddle
4. I Gotta Fire
5. Soul On Fire
6. Harmony 2
7. Sitting On Fire
8. Yeah Yeah
9. You Lie You Cheat
10. Harmony 3
11. Baby I'm Just A Fool
12. Don't Hold Me Close
13. Harmony 4
14. The Waves Crash In
15. Harmony 5
16. Borrowed Your Gun
17. Harmony 6
18. Goodnight Goodnight

Read my review of SPZ @ Apollo here.MP3: SPZ - Don't Just Do Something - Source

"Daftendirekt," to be exact. The result of her daring innovation? Well, Discipline's "So Much Betta" basically sounds like the Chipmunks covering "Milkshake" ... which is to say it sounds awesome. But really, how much more Daft sampling can we take? Even will.i.am sampled them, though if you remember, the Robots put the kibosh on that rhymery, so he was forced to "leak" the tune. No worries, will, you'd be be better off "sampling" a rhyming dictionary. - Source

If you wanna live where Death Cab for Cutie fan meets Death Cab for Cutie, look no further than the six headlining live dates the quintessentially sentimental quartet has lined up in the days leading up to their appearance at Coachella. - Source