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Now back to our regularly scheduled news/feature updates …

• John Lyndon has taken a break from criticizing Bloc Party to hawk British butter.
• Cat Power has completed a 10-inch double pack of covers.
• A bunch of relatively small, NYC-centric producers have remixed Moby’s Last Night LP for a remix record.
• Flea has pulled a Tommy Lee and gone back to school.
• Tim Hecker and Aidan Baker’s (Nadja) collaborative album is almost here.
• London’s British Museum just unveiled a 50-karat, multi-million-dollar gold statue of Kate Moss.
• The Killers are back. They still haven’t declared their second disc an “honest mistake,” though.
• Alexander Robotnick is playing a few rare U.S. dates this month.
• Jack White and Alicia Keys have released a full-length video for their James Bond song.
• Are Kurt Cobain’s ashes getting smoked or what?
• Please support The Stone. Thank you.
• Some indie shops are sticking it to Sony over their exclusive AC/DC deal with Wal-Mart.
• Michel Gondry, we forgive you.
• The Neptunes have reportedly split up, which can’t last too long given the crap-tastic quality of Pharrell’s solo work.
• Finally, someone wrote about the impact of Apple’s iPod ads on small bands like Chairlift and CSS.
• Three of the four initial acts on Neurosis‘ Beyond the Pale bill are from their label, Neurot.
• Johnny Marr and Ol’ Man Morrissey have helped curate a new two-disc Smiths comp.
• Duffy has said she’s about to have a “nervous breakdown.”
• Thirty minutes of new Walkmen footage were recently screened for reporters.

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