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Rodrigo y Gabriela are set to release a live album next month. - Source

The Decemberists have announced a tour of the US, scheduled to kick off at Terminal 5 in New York on November 5. - Source

Snow Patrol are to pioneer a new interactive application for the iPhone and iPod Touch with their new album. - Source

Sonic Youth played the final ever show at Brooklyn's outdoor McCarren Pool venue on Saturday (August 30), marking the occasion by unexpectedly opening with two new songs. - Source

The Verve have gone straight to the top of the UK album charts today (August 31) with their first release in more than 10 years. - Source

No, not as a joke writer. But Adam Schlesinger does continue to write awesome songs for fun things. Adding to his resume as Oscar, Golden Globe, Tony, and of course Grammy nominated songwriter, the Fountains Of Wayne singer-guitarist revealed to Paste he will pen tunes for The Colbert Report's Christmas Special. This is great news because Adam's songs got it going on ("Stacy's Mom" reference) and also because there will be a Colbert Report Christmas Special. More on why Adam wins at film and TV songwriting: this. (via Whit) - Source

Our first taste of TVOTR's forthcoming Return To Cookie Mountain followup Dear Science was the funky, optimistic, mystic (and in the chorus, PM Dawn?) leaning "Golden Age," Kyp letting us know that, indeed, a golden age is coming around. Tunde-fronted "Dancing Choose" is taste number two. His scattershot lyrics and quick vocal delivery have more urgency, but check out the similar psychedelic smoothness in the chorus. Two other things worth your attention: Axl Rose gets a mention and "Dancing Choose" is a pun. - Source

It's difficult not to get cynical about the influx of nostalgia/money-driven reunion tours and reunion records, but if anyone's doing it gracefully and still feels vital and relevant in the process, it's My Bloody Valentine. When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I was lucky enough to catch MBV on their 1992 Loveless tour with (the also successfully reunited) Dinosaur Jr. -- judging from this multi-camera clip of them doing a lovely, smearing "To Here Knows When" before a frenetic backdrop at last month's Fuji Rock Festival, they haven't missed a step. Or aged. - Source

So my friend Jeremy tipped me off to this band Talbot Tagora who sits atop (literally #1) Abe Vigoda's MySpace friends. And since most of their other top "friends" are bands The Tripwire is fans of, we decided to delve deeper. - Source

Independent online music store eMusic is now stepping into the talent-scouting business.  The craft of A&R - or artists and... - Source