The Cribs and Johnny Marr bring a Smiths classic to the Shockwaves NME Awards

Legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined up with The Cribs at the Shockwaves NME Awards this evening (February 28) to perform two songs. - Source

Swedish Record Labels See Filesharing as Virtue

While the RIAA sues its customers, and blames filesharing for the decrease in record sales, a coalition of seven independent Swedish record labels explores alternatives that make use of the Internet and filesharing technology. - Source

Surprise: Teenagers Not Buying CDs, Report

Teenagers are no longer buying CDs in meaningful numbers, according to a recent research report.  - Source

Coldplay take more experimental route on new album

Coldplay claim they are taking a less populist approach on their new album. - Source

Underworld Debuts New Video

Enjoy the clip for their new single, 'Boy Boy Boy', below. Visit Underworld on MySpace. - Source

New Cribs - "I'm A Realist (Postal Service Remix)"

The Brothers Jarman take a break from their apparent quest to make a video for every song from their great Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever long enough to have someone do a remix of latest single "I'm A Realist." But not just any "someone": this comes from Laptop For Cutie project the Postal Service. And what separates a Postal Service Remix from the more frequently occurring Dntel remix? Well Jimmy's gotta be joined by Ben, so on this sustain-synth smeared, thinly clicked reworking Gibbard makes sure to color up the scene by singing "bum," "bum," and of course "bum." Obviously Jimmy could have/probably did just crib those monosyllabic melodies from any of a number of Death Cab tunes, but still the sound is more Postal Service than it is say James Figurine. - Source

Yo La Tengo Light Up the Airwaves This Week

Radioland tends to favor booming voices, big personalities, and a lotta drive-time giveaways. But despite his involvement with one of the finest rock'n'roll bands in modern history, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan rarely speaks above a whisper, seems far from ostentatious in his manners, and has nothing to give away but his song and a few well-honed witticisms. - Source

Gigs, Gigs, Gigs

Two great concert announcements today... The Verve will be playing at the Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas on April 26th (the day after their Coachella performance.) I'll probably be attending the Vegas show as it's on a Saturday and... - Source

Sigur Ros: One Step Closer To Completing New Album

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

iTunes Becomes Second Largest Music Retailer, Fuzzy Math Applies

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