-- Whoever picks bands for those iTunes Live Sessions deserves a beer. Thus far, the series of iTunes-only EPs has featured stalwarts like Spiritualized and Billy Bragg, and just last week, My Morning Jacket. And on February 3, San Franciscan noise-pop weirdos Deerhoof will drop their own Apple-endorsed short-player. It features live versions of...

A lot of people are in Washington, D.C., today, huh? I hear it's for the 28th anniversary of the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. San Francisco quartet Deerhoof were there last October, just a few days before hope and change returned to the galaxy, and while they were there, the unconventional rockers recorded another live video from the reliably ...

As 2008 comes to a close, downtown NYC institution the Knitting Factory is shutting the doors of its current location at 74 Leonard Street. Next year, the Knit will move to a brand new spot smack dab in the potentially more demographically-friendly climes of Brooklyn. To bid the fondest farewell they can muster, the dudes of Akron/Family have cu...

Those three along with Mark Ronson, Cool Kids, and producers like Bloodshy & Avant, Pharrell, Just Blaze, Swizz Beats, etc. It's for M5's Call And Response: The Remix Album, which came out yesterday via Octone. Stream it all at Maroon 5's MySpace and see what happens when Adam Levine puts his voice in Kevin Barnes's hands.

As a "thank you" to fans for supporting their video-rich 10th album Offend Maggie, and as a promotional tie-in to get the word out to those who haven't, Deerhoof have made one of its tracks "My Purple Past" available as a lossless .wav file. (Come to think of it, Offend Maggie was shutout of the 2008 Gummys. Strange? Or not so strange?) The song...