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Amy Winehouse's husband threatens to divorce her
Amy Winehouse's incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil has threatened to divorce the troubled singer. Source
Unheard Beatles material to be released
An independent record label based in Miami claims it has unheard live recordings of The Beatles from the band's 1962 gig at Hamburg's Star Club, which it is planning to release. Source
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announces 2008 European Gigs
They're back! All Euro dates below:
06 FEB Lyon, FR: Sonic
07 FEB Cler-Ferrand, FR: TBA
08 FEB Paris, FR: Instants Chavires
09 FEB Chelles, FR: Les Cuizines
14 FEB Rennes, FR: L'Antipode
15 FEB Brussels, BE: TBA
16 FEB Nijmegen, NL: De Onderbroek
Tegan & Sara Respond To Facebook Hysteria
Watch the Q&A below for a good chuckle. View all forthcoming T&S US gigs here.MP3: Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head (TF Remix) (via Half Alive) Source
The Indie Rock Presidential Primary
The great new issue of Under The Radar magazine (Winter '08, Zooey Deschanel & M Ward on the cover) has a section in which they ask various musicians the question: "Which presidential candidate are you currently supporting in the 2008... Source
'Juno' Soundtrack Dethrones Radiohead To Claim US #1
The Kimya Dawson infused LP jumps to the top spot.This week's best sellers (via HITS):
1: JUNO - SOUNDTRACK
2: ALICIA KEYS - AS I AM
3: MARY J. BLIGE - GROWING PAINS
4: RADIOHEAD - IN RAINBOWS
5: TAYLOR SWIFT - BIG MACHINE
Retro Clip: Radiohead Visits Top Of The Pops, Circa '01
Enjoy Amnesiac's 'Knives Out' below. Source
New Polyphonic Spree Video - "We Crawl"
Tim DeLaughter's finally done it; his choral rock symphony officially has more Sections than it does members. And this here "Section 26 (We Crawl)" is the most personal yet, videographically anyway. By training home movie cameras on themselves in their individual, natural environs, the Polyphonic ones show themselves for maybe the first time as a multitude of monophonic folks, stripped of military fatigues and pastel robes, at their houses, with their puppies, hanging out on highway overpasses. It's heartwarming and totally humanizing, and probably less Brady Bunch than this screen cap suggests (well maybe except for the scenes from Juile and Tim's too-good-to-be-true homelife; that family's so adorable it's like we need to hit perezhilton just to regain our constant and treasured sense of cynicism). Last time Hal Samples meshed together the images, here the Spree men and women turned their footage in to filmmaker Dante Harper, who turned out a cute one. Watch it at jambase. Source
Stream The Magnetic Fields' Distortion
We've already mentioned how much we love Distortion and how obvious it is Stephin Merritt loves the Jesus & Mary Chain. Now you can listen to the entire record and decide for yourself. Though we know we're right. Source
Rob Dickinson Working On New Music In '08
It is hard to believe that it has been over two years since former Catherine Wheel frontman Rob Dickinson unleashed his debut solo album, Fresh Wine For The Horses. Since then, he has crisscrossed North America, performing an impressive number of acoustic solo shows. Source