Sony stepped in it this time. NME reports on a Twitter-spat (aka twat) Kapranos is having with his U.S. label Epic, owned by the Sony corporation, who licensed one of Franz Ferdinand's tracks to the McDonald's site latenightmcdonalds.com (the site's been blocked for now) without the band's consent. (To be clear, the ire is directed at the culpri...

Spoon self-produced Transference and while there's some studio trickery at the heart of some of its arrangements, "Written In Reverse" (and maybe "Mystery Zone") came out of the gates as an example of Spoon being Spoon, knocking out a taut and rhythmic rocker, uncluttered production in service of a swaggering hook. A logical choice then for the...

Billy's engaging in some intriguing brand expansion lately -- launching a label (roster includes, awesomely, the Germs and Electric Prunes) and getting "lost in laughter" in the studio with Jessica Simpson, for example -- but the principle Pumpkin still has enough bandwith to offer incremental updates to his biggest undertaking, the 44-track so...

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In an interview with EW Adam Young, aka laptop sensation Owl City, admits his no. 1 single "Fireflies" and the Postal Service in general "are pretty similar," but at the same time claims he's "a lot more of a Death Cab fan." For example, he'd only heard Get Up "a little bit" before people started pointing out the pilfering:I've become more of a ...