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Watch Radiohead cover Portishead

Radiohead have released a video of themselves covering Portishead's new single 'The Rip'. - Source

My Bloody Valentine play first gig in 16 years

My Bloody Valentine delighted their fans with a host of old classics as they played their first gig in 16 years tonight (June 13) at London's ICA. - Source

Sloan: Parallel Play

The latest from veteran power-poppers Sloan, Parallel Play, is in a strange position of being a follow-up to a breakthrough album-- 2006's ambitious Never
Hear the End of It-- that never really broke through. - Source

U2's Manager Calls Radiohead Experiment A Flop

Paul McGuinness tells BBC6: *We should all be aware that Radiohead's honesty box release of their album to some extent backfired. Even though it was available on their own website for no money at all, if that was what you preferred to pay - 60 to 70% of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway even though it was available for free.*U2's new LP is due out in early 2009. - Source

She & Him Record Lillywhite Session

Yesterday's World Cafe appearance included:

Take It Back
You've Really Got...
Change Is Hard

Enjoy the full set here.  - Source

Listen To New Radiohead Song Now!

Stop the press! A brand spanking new Radiohead track has appeared online following the band's performance in Dublin last week. Listen to the new song and let us have your verdicts. - Source

RIAA Quietly Drops a Suit; "Making Available" Questions Linger

The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods ... - Source

Black Kids Announce Tour

Last month we shared the deets about the upcoming Bernard Butler produced release from Black Kids, Partie Traumatic. The band just confirmed a bunch of North American dates for this - Source

Guitar Jimi Hendrix set fire to onstage to be auctioned off

The 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar that Jimi Hendrix famously set fire to at the London Astoria on March 31, 1967 is set to be auctioned this summer. - Source

Damon Albarn's musical makes London debut

Damon Albarn's debut opera, 'Monkey: Journey To The West', will makes its first ever appearance in Londonnext month. - Source