The Week in Music: #39

• A Rolling Stone list that doesn’t suck? Man, who would’ve thought.
• The new albums out for this week!
• Flaming Lips gets profiled by Reuters.
• Portishead has started working on a new album.
• Bombadil pays a visit to the Daytrotter sessions.
• U2 is not turning a profit off of their 360 tour. Woot?
• A Sam Cooke biopic is in pre-production.
• After Noel Gallagher left Oasis, rumors have it that he’ll be soon joining Kasabian full time. Don’t really see this one going through though.
• Fever Ray interview by The Decider.
• Dirty Projectors premier a new song live at Jimmy Fallon’s show.
• The 50 worst songs of the 2000s by Gigwise.
• The much discussed Kanye West/Lady Gaga tour has been canceled (thank God!).
• Vampire Weekend have a chat with Pitchfork about their upcoming sophomore album.
• Neil Diamond covers Adam Sandler for his Christmas special.
• Remember the Jack White vs Von Bondies incident from a few years back? Well, it seems like something similar happened between Wavves and The Black Lips a few days ago when a fight erupted. Stick to music, guys, leave the fist throwing to the bouncers.
• U2 performs “Ultraviolet (Light My Way)” live at SNL.
• New/old Nirvana live song surfaced!
• A new Burial track published by GvsB.
• Thom Yorke has a new live band!
• Chromwaves posted an awesome review of The Twilight Sad’s Forget The Night Ahead.
• St. Vincent talks about the much raved New Moon soundtrack.
• 5 Albums that would make better Soundtracks for the NHL than “Back in Black”

Various mp3s posted over the week:

[MP3] Pheonix - ‘Rome’ (Neighbours with Devendra Banhart)
[MP3] Thom Yorke – Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses
[MP3] Thom Yorke – The Hollow Earth
[MP3] The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
[MP3] The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
[MP3] Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix / Deakin’s jam)
[MP3] Nirvana - ‘Scoff (Live At Pine Street Theatre)’