'20 Latin Piece Choir' among the boxes ticked on new record by Fran Healy and co. - Source

File under: More Radiohead soundtrack news. Jonny's set the pace, but he is not the only Greenwood with a taste for Hollywood. Colin's teamed up with another set of bloggable brothers, Tyler and Lee of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, to perform on the James Lavino-composed soundtrack for the Alex Karpovsky comedy Woodpecker. It's not There Will Be Blood, but it's a start. Listen to the whole thing at jameslavino.com (click "Film/Television" and then "Woodpecker"). Buy at iTunes, Amazon, or eMusic.

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Some folks think Bloc Party's "Mercury" sounds like "Shock The Monkey," an idea reinforced by the Planet Of The Apes video for the track. The CD version of the single comes with remixes of the track by CSS, Flosstradamus, and John Lydon (one of those is a lie), which could possibly dampen some of the Peter Gabriel echoes. Or not. We have CSS's fizzy "Mercy" shakeup via YouTube, where it's busy scoring someone's game of Audiosurf, a game I know nothing about. - Source

The Verve have denied rumours that they are on the verge of cancelling their V Festival appearances this weekend (August 16-17). - Source

The fellas in Longwave have been hard at work in their own Brooklyn studio as well as at Peter Katis' (The National, Interpol) in Connecticut, preparing the following up 2005's There's A Fire - Source

As hinted to Xfm in May, Kelly Jones and co. will release a Greatest Hits album and follow it with a tour. - Source

The Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz star snubs Coldplay during their second Residency show on Xfm. - Source

Fresh off their excellently over-the-top Pitchfork Fest set, Spiritualized's Jake Chapman-directed video for "You Lie You Cheat" is a tad more kinetic than the "Soul On Fire" clip that found a silver-clad J. Pierce rolling on the icy/dusty ground and prostrate in a hospital bed. Actually, even if all this video's shaky P.O.V. shots give you motion sickness, its trek to the 13th floor and back ends with the protagonist in a similar situation as its sleepier, sleeker predecessor. - Source

Moby covered Joy Division at an intimate show sponsored by Los Angeles public radio station KCRW last night (July 31). - Source

The Strokes' bassist Nikolai Fraiture has put three songs online from his new project Nickel Eye. - Source