Two bands riding high on recent Best New Music-inducted releases, Cut Copy and Black Kids, just started taking the continent by storm on a joint tour. Last night found the hook-happy pairing at Portland's Doug Fir Lounge, with Cut Copy showing off their Ghost Colours and Black Kids inviting many ooohs and Ahhhs. - Source

As previously reported Stereolab are planning to release their new record, Chemical Chords, in August. They put a sneak peek of some of one of the new tracks on their - Source

Watch S. Morris discuss the longevity of Joy Division & the future of New Order below. - Source

9/13 - 9/14 @ Colorado's Red Rocks Ampitheatre.Expect to see:

Justice
Devotchka
Sharon Jones
CSS
The Fratellis
The Kills

For the full roster, head here. - Source

The mighty Beggars Group umbrella keeps quite a stable of stellar labels dry, including Matador, Rough Trade, XL, 4AD, Too Pure, and Beggars Banquet. But even under the mightiest of umbrellas, space is limited, and rather than leave any poor imprint to the mercy of the rain, the Beggars Group has decided to shuffle things around a bit. - Source

Couldn't tell you the last time I visited VH1.com, but nestled somewhere amid the T&A that's blowing up all over their homepage right now is one pretty exciting morsel of news: on May 3, VH1 will broadcast "Radiohead_In Rainbows_From the Basement". - Source

Vivid Entertainment plans to release what it claims is a sex tape supposedly featuring Jimi Hendrix. - Source

CSS have announce their new album 'Donkey' will be released on July 21. - Source

Stereolab's forthcoming Chemical Chords is their first proper album in four years. Wow and flutter. (We've decided not to count 2006's Fab Four Suture EP, because four years sounds more dramatic, and that way we got to make a bad pun, too.) Have to say, the fact that they've been around for almost 20 years at this point makes some of us feel really old. Like, those of us who remember buying Peng! the week it was released in 1992 or driving around in a beat-up Impala and obsessing a cassette copy of Mars Audiac Quintet. Sheesh. All these years later and "Three Women" sounds like Stereolab, though in a sunny, horn-y, strutting late-period way. It's a decent track, but like much of Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane and Co's back catalog, it'll likely work best nestled into the whole. - Source

Want cheap CDs?  Wal-Mart has been pressuring major label groups to lower wholesale pricing for quite some time. - Source