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I challenge you to find a better way to spend St. Patrick's Day than by drinking some festive beverages while watching the Irish trio Ash perform in Brooklyn. Yes, Tim Wheeler and his mates are taking the stage at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on St. Patrick's Day, with no other dates in North America - Source

Records from 5,000 MTV Networks employees have now been stolen, according to a company memo issued Friday.  The outside hack wa... - Source

Trent Reznor has yet to offer hard numbers on his recent, direct-to-fan album download initiative.  Ahead of broadcast, Austral... - Source

Speaking of which, Lou's got a mess of stuff on the docket over the next several months, with a two-fer down there at South by Southwest and an intercontinental tour in the spring and summer. Let's discuss. - Source

Find out all the dirt behind Made In The Dark below.  - Source

Here are the Morrissey and Smiths album sales in the Soundscan era (i.e from 1992 onwards), which I received from a friend who works there. Interestingly enough both in 2007 and in total sales since 1992 The Smiths outsell Morrissey, if only just. - Source

The Beatles back catalogue could be made available as legal downloads for the first time, - Source

Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are rumoured to be headlining this year's Lollapalooza Festival. - Source

Earlimart are known for a few things-- palling around with the late Elliott Smith, a deft wit in the title department, being pretty good-- but they're not exactly renowned for their prolificacy. In fact, in their decade or so of existence, they've averaged about one album every two years, and the space between 2004's Treble & Tremble and last year's Mentor Tormentor was-- as you math majors have already worked out-- three years. - Source

My Morning Jacket have unveiled the tracklist of Z follow-up Evil Urges. And if the album's 14-song length is any indication of its sound, we may be in for grandiosity of the lengthier It Still Moves variety rather than the tighter attack we got on Z. Either way, we're psyched. - Source