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Nice fan-made Radiohead concert up at YouTube, filmed in Prague by 50 fans armed with HD Flip pocket cameras. Radiohead liked the project so much, they donated the soundboard recording for added fidelity....

taking pop videos to a whole new level thanks to some HTML5, Arcade Fire's latest interacts with your home town address for a personalised (ish) experience

Old Fangs, live on US TV. can't wait to see these guys again. 

CSI: CSNY "When veteran TV producer Larry Bruckheimer went looking for a new angle for his smoking hot CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchise he had no idea it would be this good.

After meeting with the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to discuss using some of their music in a future episode, Bruckheimer was surprised when he learned that the Grammy Award winning artists were not only huge CSI fans, but were also all licensed private detectives.

Bruckheimer's creative juices started to boil over. He had an idea."

great video by Carl Burgess, great piece over at Creative Review on the making of - all taken from found footage in the Getty Archive

Stellar slice of epic 80's promo action for Kate Bush's hit Cloudbusting. Terry Gilliam conceived the clip, Julian Doyle directed and Donald Sutherland stars. I remember this one getting a screening in the cinema before a feature in 1985, which would make BTTF a contender for the feature.

More Neil Young Archives are on the way, but maybe don't get your hopes up just yet as Volume 1 took years to materialise. Volume 2 promises three lost studio albums from the 70's: Homegrown and Chrome Dreams, plus Oceanside-Countryside - which I've never even heard of.

No mention of uber-classic Time Fades Away, which would certainly be covered in this period - although Wikipedia mentions Time Fades Away II, from the same period.

Details on Neilyoung.com, via Soundr.

Loving the love-in-the-microchip-factory vibe of this video for Such Great Heights by The Postal Service from back in 2003. Bands of this size just don't get MTV-Ready videos like this any more. 

Weezer are out of their major-label contract and are now signed to Epitaph. Surely this means they have just been fulfilling their obligations to the label for the last 2+ albums and will now return to Pinketon-era awesomeness.

Their new album is already ready to drop on September 14th and it's called Hurley, not unlike the now-famous fat bloke off that TV show Lost. Uh oh, maybe this doesn't bode well, as the cover is that fat block from Lost, cropped from a photo of Jorge Garcia and Rivers Cuomo. Irony doesn't even abound.

Arch indie slackers Superchunk are back in business after a near 10-year hiatus. Not that thye've been sitting around - Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan are the honchos of @Merge Records

"Majesty Shredding telescopes two decades into 41 indelible, action-packed minutes. It is the sound of youthful exuberance fine-tuned with grown-up confidence."

Sold. As long as they play Slack Motherfucker on tour.

Pre-order here. Majesty Shredding is out October 4th.

another list of stuff:

Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N' Cheek (4/1)
The xx – xx (4/1)
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation (6/1)
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea (6/1)
Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More (6/1)
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can (6/1)
Foals – Total Life Forever (8/1)
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (8/1)
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (8/1)
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal (10/1)
Kit Downes Trio – Golden (10/1)
I Am Kloot – Sky at Night (10/1)

like this idea: "A site where musicians recommend new music to new listeners. As simple as that.." Steve "Sonic Youth" Shelley, Elf Power, Tennis, Everything Everything up so far

The Coral rocking the desert/astronaut look in their new video

just in case you've missed this latest online cats meme, here's I Am Not A Big Fan Of Cats

Big Boi from Outkast is back in action this month, with new album "Sir Lucious Left Foot ...The Son Of Chico Dusty" ready to pick up a grammy for best album title if nothing else.

As a refresher, Big Boi has worked with DJ X-Rated and DJ Esco to compile a mix-tape of previous work - which you can download for free right now over at bigboi.com

Bizarre cover, even more bizare (NSFW) video. Cee-lo does Band of Horses.