Small amount of extra tickets are being sold to Nightwish/Apocalyptica gig for Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland. If you want yours, be quick. All tickets are from very good seats.NIGHTWISH ja APOCALYPTICASaturday 19.9.2009 Hartwall AreenaNo agelimit...

Since selling a ton of band t-shirts (and releasing a pretty great album) last year, Dean and Randy have remained busy remixing Bloc Party, staying out of one-way flame wars, playing dressup, going on the No Deachunter "round robin" tour Dan Deacon and Deerhunter ... and as we learn today, working on a new release set for this fall. Like Nouns, ...

Listen to bits of the Vitamin String Quartet's takes on "Eraser" and "Banshee Beat" (among other indie favorites) here and In Rainbows there. Nervous, Apocalyptica?

Mike Miko are a fun live band, so they wisely made a fun live video for We Be Xuxa's "I Got A Lot (New New New)." Speaking of which: Much of the current DIY or lo-fi or "shitgaze" (or whatever) crop is peddling something downcast ("thoughtful") a la Blank Dogs and Dum Dum Girls and the cross-breeding Mayfair Set, Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, an...