Thriller!

Michael Jackson's album Thriller, is celebrating it's 25th birthday and to celebrate, Epic/ legacy will be putting out a special anniversiary edition of the album. The album will feature artists such as Kanye West, will.i.am, Paul McCartney, and Akon.
Tracklist:

01 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
02 Baby Be Mine
03 The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
04 Thriller
05 Beat It
06 Billie Jean
07 Human Nature
08 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
09 The Lady in My Life
10 Someone in the Dark
11 Billie Jean (demo)
12 Carousel
13 The Girl Is Mine 2008 with will.i.am remix
14 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008 with Michael Jackson and will.i.am
15 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008 with Michael Jackson, will.i.am, and Akon
16 Billie Jean 2008 with Kanye West remix
17 For All Time (previously unreleased)

DVD:

01 Thriller (music video)
02 Beat It (music video)
03 Billie Jean (music video)
04 Billie Jean (from "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever")

via Pitchfork.

LCD Live: Part 2

This week we have "Daft Punk is Playing at My House." Enjoy.

Tout Ensemble

There is some new information out concerning Weezer's sixth album. It will be released on April 22nd of next year and it will be called Tout Ensemble. Rivers Cuomo's demo compilation "Alone: The Home Recordings of River's Cuomo"(cover art above) has been pushed back one week and will release on December 18th.

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem announced that every Monday between now and Christmas, a new live video from their performance in Manchester will be put out on YouTube. They already put out a video for the song, "All My Friends." Here is what else is going to be posted.

daft punk is playing at my house - November 26
north american scum - December 3
tribulations - December 10
us v. them - December 17
movement - December 17

and the All My Friends video

Commercials and Cool Music

You may have heard a lot about indie bands selling their music to big corporations and then hearing that cool music on commercials. Some that come to mind quickly are Wilco selling to Volkswagen(much earlier this year), of Montreal to T-mobile, and that infamous Band of Horses Selling to Wal-Mart. I bring this up because I was watching T.V. last night when I heard a familiar song on Target's commercial. It was the Go! Team's, "We Just Won't Be Defeated." Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes recently wrote an essay that was posted over at stereogum, about the impossibility of NOT selling out. You could check it out, it's filled with expletives and comes of a little defensive, but makes some valid points. Amen.

My Misunderstanding Mind

Well if you read the last post, I am sorry. Basically I didn't understand what was happening, and I too, was disappointed to see the rerun of SNL last night. So it turns out that Michael Cera DID host a special "On Strike!" Saturday Night Live, but there were no camera's. Instead, more of a "stage" version was held in Chelsea New York. I misread, and I apologize. Here are a couple SNL videos for the fix of funny we are all in need of.

Need Your Fix?

The Writer's Guild of America is still on strike but luckily, as pitchfork reports, Saturday Night Live will be airing a special, "On Strike!" episode. Whether this defeats the point of going on strike or not, I couldn't tell you. All I can say is that I am happy about it. Reportedly, all proceeds go to the shows production staff. Hosting this episode is the HILARIOUS Michale Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad, and the upcoming Juno,) and the musical guest is none other than Yo La Tengo. I think this will be good.

Futureheads -Broke Up the Time

Hailing from Sunderland in the UK, The Futureheads, are coming out with a new album sometime in 2008 and Indieblogheaven has a track to download. head over to the blog and look around while you're there. Or just download it HERE.

New Weezer Album

Weezer fan's have some things to look forward to. Rivers Cuomo's collection of demo's, "Alone," is due out on the 12th of December, this year. Also, Weezer announced that their sixth studio album is ready for mixing, and will be released sometime in the spring of 2008.
Scott Shriner of the band says. "Weezer fans truly have something to look forward to. The entire band has accomplished some of its most challenging goals as a group and as individuals." The album has yet to be given a title.
I have also decided to use larger pictures when I can. Do you like it?

Donda West 1949-2007

Donda West, mother of Kanye West, died on Saturday night in Los Angeles at the age of 58. The Former Chairwoman of the Chicago State University English Department, raised Kanye West on her own from the time he was three. The cause of death has not been released. Yahoo News has more information here.

The Great Sufjan Song Xmas Xchange!

That lovable, multi talented musical genius that is Sufjan Stevens is sending a christmas challenge to the world. Asthmatic Kitty says:

"It's Christmas time again! That means tightly bundled scarves, lively debates on the merits of real/plastic trees, a litany of Christmas television specials, and finding the perfect retro Christmas wrapping paper.

And gifts of course! Who could forget the gifts!

That's why Sufjan Stevens is busy working on a very special gift right now, for a very special person. And in the spirit of Christmas, that person will give Sufjan a similarly special gift.

Here's how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to us. Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song.

Just like a gift exhange, Sufjan's song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter's first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song."

So, get working on those songs kids. If you win and decide not to sell it, I will totally post it on this blog, and then people will actually come to this site. Also, you can stream Sufjan's entire "Songs for Christmas" box set and submit your song here.

REMIX!

A new Tegan & Sara track remixed by Tiësto. Pretty ill. Not the highest quality stream but still good. Listen to it and learn more over at Stereogum.

Sigur Rós Update

Well, if you live anywhere else but North America you would already have access to Sigur Rós' newest Film/Album double release, heima/hvarf-heim. But if you are like me and you DO live in North America, then you have to wait. You only have to wait until tomorrow to purchase the CD, but as for the film, you have to wait until November 20th. How can I be expected to be patient under such circumstances?

Hold Steady's New Stuff

There's word from Gum that the Hold Steady have been performing some new songs at their shows, three to be exact, and their favorite is called, "Lord I'm Discouraged." A beauty of a rock ballad, I am thinking maybe a good candidate for Guitar Hero 4. This clip of them performing it was taken in Columbus Ohio on October 27.

Panda Bear Skateboarding

This isn't the newest kid on the block, but it is still relatively fresh. Panda Bear's newish video for their song "Comfy in Nautica" is simply a skateboarding video. But the skateboarder comes out of the ocean. Very cool. Sorry if I got your hopes up with the title.