Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover Sonic Youth

"The Diamond Sea", one of the prettiest Sonic Youth songs of all time, just got prettier. As covered by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on an iTunes exclusive acoustic EP available today, "Diamond Sea" gets stripped down to the wistful love song at its core, with Karen O doing her best vulnerable "Maps" coo.

The iTunes session also includes acoustic takes on the YYYs originals "Cheated Hearts", "Gold Lion", and "Turn Into".

Video: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cheated Hearts

Amy Millan Adds U.S. Dates to Fall Tour

Wishing on a Star for Amy Millan to come to your town? If you reside in four U.S. cities and several Canadian towns, your wish will come true this autumn.

The Arts&Crafts chanteuse has tacked on a few U.S. dates to her fall tour of North America, which is slated to take off at Victoria's Lucky Bar come mid-September. A gig in Toronto this Saturday will precede the festivities.

As previously reported, Stars have a single tour date lined up; you'll find them at Austin City Limits in Texas on September 15. In addition, a remix album, Do You Trust Your Friends, is on its way from the band this autumn. The disc will feature Broken Social Scene, Metric, the Dears, the Elected, Junior Boys, and more.

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Video: Amy Millan: Baby I

Video: Beck: "Motorcade"

Exclusive: TV on the Radio U.S. Bonus Tracks

Good things come to those who wait. In exchange for withholding the new TV on the Radio album Return to Cookie Mountain from American release for two months (it came out on July 3 on 4AD in Europe, and will be out here on September 12 on Interscope), the band is rewarding us patient Yanks with three bonus tracks.

Two of them, "Snakes and Martyrs" and "Things You Can Do", were previously released as the B-sides to the "Wolf Like Me" single on 4AD. The third track is a remix of "Hours" by El-P.

Here's what the American tracklist looks like:

01 I Was a Lover
02 Hours
03 Province
04 Playhouses
05 Wolf Like Me
06 A Method
07 Let the Devil In
08 Dirty Whirl
09 Blues From Down Here
10 Tonight
11 Wash the Day Away

Bonus tracks:

Snakes and Martyrs
Hours (El-P Remix)
Things You Can Do [MORE...]

Stream: TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me

Deerhoof Finish New Album, Add Tour Dates

Run four your lives, because a new Deerhoof record is already finished and ready for an early 2007 release on Kill Rock Stars/5RC. The band-- currently a trio after losing bassist/guitarist Chris Cohen in May-- recorded the as-yet-untitled album at Tiny Telephone in their hometown of San Francisco with Jay and Ian Pellicci, who worked as engineers on Reveille. According to the band's publicist, the sound of the album is "like symphonic grime with drum corps." Um... awesome!

Deerhoof will be opening for Radiohead on a trio of European dates beginning today, after which they will head promptly back to North America to play shows with the Flaming Lips and Kanye West (at the Bumbershoot Festival), among others. And don't forget about their December date at Thurston Moore's Nightmare Before Christmas ATP. All of the dates are listed after the jump.

As previously reported, Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich will be recording a "minimalist record" with Xiu Xiu sometime this winter. More info on that as it comes.
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MP3: Deerhoof: Covers EP

Long Winters Announce Fall Tour
Documentary film in the works

The Long Winters will follow the July release of their latest album, Putting the Days to Bed, with a full-on North American tour. Barsuk labelmates What Made Milwaukee Famous and Menomena will join them for the majority of the dates, but their first two shows will be in California with Feist.

In addition to the tour, a Long Winters documentary is also in the works, scheduled for a tentative September release. Through With Love is a film by Adam Pranica and Jace Krause about lead Winter John Roderick and the process of recording Putting the Days to Bed. The ten-minute promotional featurette linked to below includes interviews with Roderick and his bandmates as well as Ken Stringfellow (the Posies), Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), and John Vanderslice. The film will include eight live performances and even more interviews in its final incarnation.
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MP3: The Long Winters: Pushover
Video: The Long Winters: Through With Love featurette

Infinite Mixtape #33: The Thermals: "A Pillar of Salt"

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#0033 > The Thermals: "A Pillar of Salt"
[from The Body, the Blood, the Machine; Sub Pop]
Info: [The Thermals] | [MySpace] | [Sub Pop]

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// Previously on The Infinite Mixtape:
#0032: Grizzly Bear: "Lullabye"
#0031: Swan Lake: "All Fires"
#0030: Killer Mike: "That's Life"
#0029: Ratatat: "Lex"
#0028: Sally Shapiro: "I'll Be by Your Side"
#0027: Junior Boys: "In the Morning"
#0026: Mew: "The Zookeeper's Boy"
#0025: Annuals: "Brother"
#0024: My Robot Friend: "One More Try (Vocals by Antony)"
#0023: Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
#0022: Girl Talk: "Smash Your Head"
#0001 - #0021: 21 of 2006's Best Tracks

Video: The Rapture: "Get Myself Into It" (Final Version)

When the Rapture got down to business filming the video for their new single "Get Myself Into It", they discovered, to their horror, that a certain pop starlet had stolen their idea. The band takes their revenge in this new version of the clip. Blink and you'll miss it.

Video: The Rapture: Get Myself Into It (Final Version)

Jay-Z Announces World Tour Dates

Plenty of MCs brag about their standings in the crack game, but Jay-Z is probably the first to lay claim to Krakow. Well, the first non-Polish MC, that is.

On Friday, Jigga announced the dates of his world tour to raise water crisis awareness, which we reported on previously. The itinerary is listed after the jump, and if anyone wants to send a ticket to Tanzania my way, I would be much obliged. Let the (world) takeover begin. [MORE...]

Video: Jay-Z and Kofi Annan: Press Conference

Jack White's Detroit Home Up for Sale

All right, friends. Ready for a bidding war you can't refuse? One clue: it's black and white and red all over. Any guesses?

All right, it's Jack White's old house.

The White Stripes/Raconteurs main man has put his former Detroit lair on the market. For a mere $930,000, you could be the owner of this mammoth masterpiece. Interested? Go here.

The manse includes a secret garden, a master bedroom hand-painted by White himself, the grand staircase/foyer (aka Third Man Studios, where the Stripes have recorded), and a red-and-white-striped laundry room and bathroom. [MORE...]

Video: The White Stripes: My Doorbell

Figurines Schedule North American Tour

Danish quartet Figurines will once again make their way to the States and Canada in support of this year's Skeleton LP. The trek kicks off after a series of European dates this month and next, and concludes in Seattle on Halloween. We hope they dress up as bobbleheads.

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MP3: Figurines: The Wonder [Infinite Mixtape #4]

Video: The Killers: "When You Were Young"

The Killers take their Duran Duran obsession to the next level with the video for Sam's Town's first single, "When You Were Young", appropriating the "Hungry Like the Wolf" clip's fetishizing of the "exotic" Other. An all-Mexican cast acts out a telenovela while the pasty white Killers perform in the background; somewhere, an Ethnic Studies major finds her senior thesis topic.

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