Charity Auction in full swing!

We just put up two new posters for the Charity Auction: The Rosebuds and Shout Out Louds! We've had an overwhelming response so far, so we hope you'll bookmark our EBAY SELLER'S PAGE and check back often!

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Spoon on World Cafe!

While we were groaning under the weight of Thanksgiving turkey & dressing, our friends at World Cafe aired the Spoon session recorded in October. Full band live session and an interview with David Dye can be found here!

Spoon will be playing some holiday shows starting next week and ending with a New Year's Eve celebration in Chicago! See the list here!

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MTV plays the hits!

Vote now for Shout Out Louds, Spoon, Camera Obscura, and Caribou on Subterranean's best of 2007 countdown! See the results on 12/17 on MTV2 at 1AM EST.

Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills video has also been added to MTVU's rotation, so check it out on your college's campus!

You can also catch Caribou - Melody Day on MTVU's "Freshman" program! Vote to keep it on the air HERE on December 10!

And did we mention the Plug Award Nominations are up? Arcade Fire, Spoon, Caribou, Oakley Hall, and Merge are all nominated!

Happy Thanksgiving!

-Lindsey K.

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Unreleased Spent Video!

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David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's - live video, etc!

David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's rolled through Durham last night. It was awesome! I hope they don't wait so long to come again!

The new Washington Post blog ran this interview. Critical Mass reviewed the Philadelphia show and posted a couple of videos.

And if you didn't listen to David & the Heavy 8's on KCMP yet, listen now!

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Scott Pilgrim <3's Merge!

Bryan Lee O'Malley wrote a little surprise into Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! Hopefully this won't ruin it for any of you.. but I suggest you go & get your copy right now!

-Lindsey K.

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Big Dipper Return!

From CMJ.com:

Nearly 16 years after the band’s breakup, Merge is announcing a reissue of what they are calling Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology due March 18. This three CD set includes their Boo Boo EP and first two albums as well as nine bonus tracks, a video and one previously unreleased CD made up of the band’s final recordings. In addition to the release, the original Big Dipper line-up will play 4 shows on the east coast in April and if all goes well then they will extend to the mid-west later in the year. Yesterday afternoon, I spoke briefly with Gary Waleik about the reunion and what it’s like to re-learn you own songs.

CMJ: Were you initially (sixteen years ago) planning to release Very Loud Arrays as it is today or including more tracks?
GW: In the band’s opinion, Very Loud Arrays (recently titled) were the best 15 tracks from a group of 25 or 30 that we had recorded after being dropped from Epic. At the time we believed that we would be picked up by a new label, a new trend of them had begun to sprout and were becoming larger than indie labels but smaller than majors—we thought that we would have fit right into that.

CMJ: You announced the reunion five months ago on your MySpace blog, how have you begun the process of remembering your music since then?
GW: Well personally I have not started due to the time that I have spent working on our anthology. Our bassist Steve has begun and we have been keeping in contact on his progress. I don’t think that it should be too hard, I haven’t seriously played guitar for the past 15 years but remembering the songs will come quickly after remembering the guitar.

CMJ: Do you see Big Dipper continuing to play after April? Who is this decision up to?
GW: Ultimately the decision is up to the band. I’m sure that Merge would love for us to tour relentlessly but we are family men now with full time jobs. Now we’re all either gray-haired, bald or much heavier than we were 18 years ago when we last played together and subsequently more self-conscious. If our April shows go well, we have fun and receive a positive response then we’ll take it from there. The band will discuss the idea and agree as a whole if we would like to continue on to a tour of the Midwest—we were always popular there, especially in Kansas.

Check out the Big Dipper myspace page, and check out an mp3 from Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology here! Also, talk about how excited you are that Big Dipper is back via our forum!

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Spoon on How I Met Your Mother!

Spoon's "The Underdog" from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga will be heard on How I Met Your Mother tonight. 8pm EST on CBS. Check your local listings for channel guides!

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Merge bands reuniting all over the place!

Polvo will be reuniting for the Explosions in the Sky day of All Tomorrow's Parties May 16-18th, 2008 at Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead, England.

Original members, Ash Bowie (singer/guitarist), Dave Brylawski (guitar), Steve Popson (bass) will all be there minus drummer Eddie Watkins. Brian Quast formerly of the Cherry Valence will act as drummer.

More information here!

Also, Versus played a surprise show for Matt Daseman's (drummer for True Love Always & Flin/Flon) 40th Birthday at The Union Hall in Brooklyn last weekend! The lucky crowd were all smiles and partying like it was 1997!

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Spoon wins a Woodie!

(thanks, Six Eyes!)

Idolator treated us to a live-blogging account of the The MTVU Woodies last night. No mention of the fact that SPOON won the "Alumni Woodie"! Click HERE to watch all the nominees' videos.

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ARCADE FIRE on Austin City Limits Festival

As you might have heard, Arcade Fire will be appearing on Austin City Limits this weekend - Saturday, November 10th. The session was taped earlier this year during the ACL Festival, and though, due to the vagaries of air travel in these troubled times, I was unable to attend the taping in person, reports from those who did, including the band themselves, point towards an amazing performance.

As a sneak preview, Pitchfork has posted video of "Keep The Car Running" from the ACL taping. If you have not seen it yet, you can check it out HERE.

Looks auspicious.

You can also check out snippets from the post show interview with Will, Win, Jeremy, Tim and Regine on the ACL website HERE.

Check your local listings for the times that Austin City Limits will be broadcast in your area. You can also find the schedules for PBS programming in your area HERE.


-m

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David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's visit KCMP!

David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's did an instudio at KCMP while in Minneapolis on Monday. Full band live Session! Also, Mark Wheat chatted with David and the band about life in New Zealand, The Clean, and a little about surfing, of course!

Listen to the session here! Buy your copy of The Far Now here! David Kilgour & the Heavy 8's on tour here!

Bonus! Vintage video of "Anything Can Happen" by The Clean!

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SHOUT OUT LOUDS joined by Pogues in LA

Shout Out Louds played the last show of their North American tour last night in front of a packed and raucous house at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. It was indeed the perfect ending to an amazing tour. But the night was made extra special when Spider Stacy and James Fearnley of The Pogues joined the band onstage for a rollicking version of "Streams Of Whiskey" during the encore.

There's some video below, but be warned the sound leaves a lot to be desired. You still get a sense of the fun though.

NME has a story on the events of the evening HERE.

We wish our friends from Sweden safe passage home and look forward to their return to these shores in early 2008 (stay tuned for details on that).

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Final Fantasy + Cadence Weapon cover Destroyer!

via You Ain't No Picasso

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Imperial Teen hit the west coast!

Listen to Imperial Teen on KEXP!

The 'Teen have a few more tour dates lined up, don't miss them!
12.13.2007 * San Francisco CA @ The Independent
12.14.2007 * Los Angeles CA @ Troubadour
12.15.2007 * San Diego CA @ The Casbah

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The Broken West debut new songs on WOXY!

Click HERE to hear the Broken West Lounge Act @ WOXY.com! The band made the radio debut of two new songs they've been playing on the road - "Perfect Games" and "Embassy Row."

UPDATE: Get the Tegan & Sara cover of "Back In Your Head" at Aquarium Drunkard

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