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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

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

Yesterday's World Cafe appearance included:

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

Enjoy the full set here.  - Source

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

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

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

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

Can promotional CDs be resold in the open market?  Last year, Universal Music Group sued Troy Augusto for reselling promotion... - Source

The Polyphonic Spree, Ambulance Ltd and Universal Music Group all filed papers on Friday (June 6) objecting to TVT's attempts to sell its record contracts with bands that signed to the label before it went bankrupt. - Source