The Week in Music: #41

• If you’re a Skillet fan, you should definitely check out this contest we’ve organized.
• Grizzly Bear will release a special edition of Veckatimest.
• The latest Baroness record got reviewed by us for a 9/10!
• The 100 best live albums of all time ranked by Amazon.
• The Killers have a new song up and streaming as part of their contribution to the New Moon soundtrack.
• You don’t really feel like going out this weekend, you can always spend your Saturday night indoors coloring the Beatles.
• Pavement will not release any new material, despite their upcoming 2010 reunion tour.
• Multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear has released his first solo 7″ this week under the moniker CANT.
• The Top 10 Halloween Music Videos.
• 2008: out of 115,000 albums only 110 mattered.
• Rock Band is getting an iPhone version. There goes my class attendance…
• The Flaming Lips paid Conan a visit this week, where they played “Watching The Planets.”
• The 25 best music websites.
• Pete Doherty in the hospital.
• Bruce Springsteen closes Giants Stadium with a three-hour set.
• New Eels album out this January!
• Johnny Marr talks to Pitchfork about joining the Cribs and Modest Mous
• Sonic Youth perform and act on Gossip Girl.
• Weezer is letting itself slip in fail, after fail, after fail. Seems like Rivers Cuomo is teaming up with pop singer Ketty Perry to work on a new song off her upcoming album.
• White Stripes to release early outtakes.
• Tom Waits preps a new and incredible live album.
• The top 10 must see bands at CMJ 2009.
• LOLcats music reviews? GOD!
• Clues play Daytrotter sessions.
• M.I.A. believes President Obama should return his Nobel prize.

Various mp3s and videos posted by us this week:

[MP3] LCD Soundsystem - ‘Bye Bye Bayou’ (Alan Vega cover)
[VIDEO] Grizzly Bear & Victoria Legrand: ‘Two Weeks’ (live @ Conan O’Brien)
[MP3] Don Diablo vs Phoenix vs Jay-Z - ‘99 Fences’
[VIDEO] Basement Jaxx: ‘Scars’
[MP3] Baroness - ‘Swollen And Halo’
[MP3] The Flaming Lips - ‘Powerless’
[MP3] Neon Indian - ‘Thermally Chill’
[MP3] Barzin - ‘Nobody Told Me’
[MP3] Lightning Bolt - ‘Transmissionary’
[VIDEO] Camera Obscura: ‘The Sweetest Thing’