18 Seconds Before Sunrise reports: *Sigur Ros has returned from New York's Sear Sound studio with foundations for 11 songs which will appear on their next LP. The band will continue recording the album with producer Flood in their Sundlaugin studio over the next couple of weeks, with a tentative release date of late spring/early summer. No one has heard any of these songs before.*  - Source

The iTunes Store is now the second-largest music retail outlet in the United States, at least according to a creative calculation. - Source

Enjoy Friday night's performance of their new single, 'Grounds For Divorce', below. - Source

Hallelujah! Catch the reunited band at:

4/28 - WaMu Theater @ MSG
4/29 - WaMu Theater @ MSG

Tix on sale this Saturday at 11am via TM.  - Source

Enjoy last night's performance of 'Neo Consumer' below. Visit SFA on MySpace. - Source

M-S explains: *The third Manchester v Cancer gig was held at the MEN Arena on Saturday, February 23rd. At the end of the night, after the scheduled bands had played, for the finale, Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) was joined on stage by Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order), Andy Rourke (The Smiths) & David Potts (Monaco) to perform four songs - the first of which was The Smiths' 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want'.* - Source

Hot on the heels of Oscar night, we have the aforementioned soundtrack tune from LCD Soundsystem (of Your Favorite Album Of 2007, fame), which was commissioned for the forthcoming math-kids-counting-cards-in-Vegas Robert Luketic-directed film 21 starring Kevin Spacey (as a math prof), Kate Bosworth (as a "sexy" math teamer), Laurence Fishburne (the casino's enforcer), etc. The instrumental section sorta reminds us of Throbbing Gristle's "Hot On The Heels Of Love," so our opening cliché isn't entirely accidental. - Source

The music industry's in hard times. So hard that Warner Bros. thinks its best shot at a better bottom line is to give an imprint to internationally acclaimed Photoshop dildo artist Perez Hilton. To the label's credit, if their negotiations with Perez are successful, this actually would be Warner's best move towards embracing the blog phenomenon yet, which is to say it would be an irrefutable official acknowledgment that blogs, in fact, exist! We're getting somewhere, music industry. NYT reports on the particulars of Perez's future as a music executive:Mr. Lavandeira has been negotiating a deal that would provide him with his own imprint at Warner Brothers Records, a division of the music giant Warner Music Group, he said. This was confirmed by several other people associated with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity because no deal has been made. The talks are preliminary, and an agreement is not certain, but Mr. Lavandeira could receive ,000 a year as an advance against 50 percent of any profits generated by artists he discovers and releases through Warner Brothers, these people said.Six figure salary, minimum. Damn. NYT then offers some stats to lay out the quantifiable effect of blog posts on record sales: - Source

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have announced a tour of the US, kicking off April 16 in New York City. - Source

The eagerly awaited new documentary about Joy Division is to be released in the UK on May 2. - Source