This week at Spinner, we got some news about the Flaming Lips’ upcoming collaboration schedule. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne snuck into Spinner’s interview with Death Cab For Cutie to ask them if they’d like to work together on a short EP. Wayne asks for instrumentals or unfinished songs to collaborate on and Ben says they’ve [...]

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I hate to offer such an easy and lazy comparison as to say that Whiskey Shivers sound like the Avett Brothers, but… they kinda do. The song’s catchy, the video is insane (really, stick around for the whole thing) and I can definitely see this being a band who sticks around for a while. Enjoy!

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MP3: The Weeknd – Rolling Stone MP3: The Weeknd – The Birds pt 1 Download The Weeknds’ “Thursday” mixtape at his site

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Jeff Mangum is currently touring North America. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d be able to write. But 2011 has been full of some amazing things, including the revival of Jeff’s desire to perform on stage. He’s been playing his Neutral Milk Hotel classics and one or two covers on this tour. So [...]

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As most of you no doubt have learned and forgotten, there is a local section on YANP now. So when there are local bands that I want to write about, but don’t really feel that they’re ready for the main page, I can stick the post there. But when a post on a small Kentucky [...]

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Cass McComb’s Humor Risk is out November 8th on Domino. MP3: Cass McCombs – The Same Thing I love Cass McCombs, but he’s not the most… upbeat musician. Well this year’s second release from him, Humor Risk, seems headed in that very direction. “The Same Thing” pulls from 70s AM radio, college rock of the [...]

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Tonight I’m headed up to Cincinnati to see a band for the fourth time this year. Ordinarily I’d be tired of the band by now, but not when that band is My Morning Jacket. I was lucky enough to score an interview with MMJ bassist Tom Blankenship. He requested some questions a bit outside of [...]

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Great news! Portugal. The Man have recovered most of their gear from the theft in Chicago. John wrote a great post on hearing the news: Laying in bed at 9:30pm Friday night, fittingly depressed over the theft of our gear, I received a phone call from our tour manager “The Chicago PD found our gear! [...]

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It’s no secret that I love tUnE-yArDs — especially her song “Gangsta.” Turns out the Beastie Boys’ Adrock feels the same way. You can snag this free remix of that fantastic song below and pick up the single’s 12″ on Sept 27.

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