Music News Highlights

Gigwise report the Kaiser Chiefs wrote and recorded an album based on Will Ferrell’s character in Anchorman.  The Ferrell tribute album will not be released because band members say it’s “awful” and “really unfunny”.

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New New Pornographers mp3, “My Rights Versus Yours” can be found on the Matablog.

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Tonight:  Peter Bjorn and John on Leno.  Carrot Top on Criag Ferg.  BRMC on Jimmy Kimmel.

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Art Brut Contest

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Art Brut at Sea Level Records

New Art Brut album, It’s a Bit Complicated, will be out June 19th. We are giving out signed posters and a cd samplers (including the songs “Direct Hit” “Pump up the Volume” and “Nag Nag Nag”) to celebrate this exhilarating occasion.

To win, listen to the stream below and tell us your best music video scenario for the song. Please send entries to: usounds AT gmail DOT com. Top three will receive a fun Art Brut prize pack. Sorry, this contest is limited to US, Canada and United Arab Emirates only.

“Direct Hit” Windows [stream] With amazing bonus light show!

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Music News Highlights

Vote for the sexiest vegetarian on Peta 2Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Le Tigre are among the nominees.  So are Woody Harrelson and Moby for some reason.

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Ozzfest VIP tickets are only $300 – $666 as reported by Aversion.  Remember that time Ozzy shot all his cats?  Like, 17 of them?

The Go Find Stars on the Wall [Morr Music]

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Rating: 6.3

The Go Find is a characteristic melodic indie band of the latter half of the Ought Decade, drawing on the twee pop and lovable aching of bands like Death Cab for Cutie. However, this solo project is from the other side of the Atlantic in the heart of Belgium. Dieter Sermeus incorporates jangling guitar arpeggios with plenty of digitization and somber lyrics. He has a penchant for thick synthetic bass and mid-tempo marches which glaze over the production in a viscosity that gives weight, but never glowers. Although most of Stars on the Wall is familiar, there’s plenty of genuine sweetness to appeal to college rockers and starry-eyed dreamers alike.

Dictionary [mp3]

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