White Stripes boy Jack White has teamed up with a Raconteur and members of The Kills and Queens of the Stone Age, forming a new band named the Dead Weather. Jack White moves over to the drums (!), Raconteur Jack Lawrence and QOTSA’s Dean Fertita take guitars, and Alison Mosshart (and Jack White) do the [...]

I just realized Merriweather is kinda remixable! Hatchmatik takes a standard techno approach to the song, which isn’t necessarily bad, but some of the dynamics of the original get ruined aka the first a cappella. That Gigamesh one though… MP3: Animal Collective: “My Girls” (Hatchmatik Disco Version)

Mos Def promised a “very special guest” at his post-Grammys show a few weeks ago, and so it was: a Black Star reunion! “Definition” and “Respiration” from the Black Star LP

Here’s the deal folks: out there on the etherwebs, Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear’s fantastic follow-up to 2006′s Yellow House is floating around, but at a crappy bitrate of 128 kbps. I’m not a hardcore Grizzly Bear fan so I decided to hop on the pirate train, but a better quality rip should hit sometime soon if [...]

The San Francisco-based Noise Pop festival concluded yesterday, and among the many recordings from Wolfgang’s Vault is the Deerhunter show, packed with four brand new songs. Whitney Penny was a no show this weekend, but the normal four (Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Moses Archuleta, Josh Fauver) hold it down, playing and jamming to all post-Cryptograms [...]