Eddie Van Halen, going ahead and jumping
We sift the ‘net for today’s top stories so you don’t have to…
- Tyondai Braxton quit Battles.
- Decibel sent KoRn a stack of hilarious questions.
- Universal pulled its music videos off MTV.com.
- The New York Times examined the people who enforce the music industry’s copyright laws.
- Jack White threw a temper tantrum at an invite-only Dead Weather show.
- Björk talked to NPR.
- HBO scheduled a Bruce Springsteen doc for the fall.
- Marissa Nadler sent a new song to Gorilla Vs. Bear.
- Impose interviewed Beach Fossils and Woven Bones together.
- The Quietus looked at the history of Trojan Records.
- Broken Social Scene launched a remix series.
- Clash spoke to Skream about his new Outside the Box album.
- Van Halen are working with David Lee Roth again.
- Solar Bears readied their debut LP for Planet Mu.
- Carrie Brownstein scored a feminist documentary.
- Sufjan Stevens outlined a North American tour.
- The Strokes reunited for their first show in four years at Lollapalooza.
- Basement Jaxx remixed Vampire Weekend.
- The Guardian interviewed Alasdair Roberts.
- Arcade Fire earned their first No. 1 album in the UK.
- The A.V. Club assembled a list of “songs about outdated (and soon-to-be outdated) technology.”
- Meanwhile, Paste broke down “bands you can’t Google.”
- M.I.A. can’t seem to catch a break, can she?
- The FADER hunted Wavves down in a tree.
- Soundgarden shared an unreleased song from the Badmotorfinger sessions.
- The Black Angels and Black Mountain announced a fall tour.
