“Invisible Girl”, the first single from Canada’s Merry-Garage-Rock-Pranksters King Khan and BBQ Show’s new album, of the same name, has a catchy ’60s bubble-gum vibe. Granted, the bubble-gum is chewy and gritty, but it’s tasty.

{MP3} King Khan & BBQ Show – “Invisible Girl”

Invisible Girl is out 11/3 on In the Red.

• Stream Karen O and the Kids’ first single from the Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack…then go out and play. {MySpace}

• Empire of the Sun guests/gets sampled on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 album. Australia is gonna be huge in 2010! {Prefix}

• Potential iTunes killer Spotify gets approved by Apple’s UK App Store. Hurray for subscription-based music!? {Techcrunch}

• Download MP3s by The First International Sex Opera Band. Yes. Really. {WFMU}

• UK funnyman Ricky Gervais was in an ’80s pop band. Watch the ridiculous video for their only single, then remix it using Karl Pilkington’s gynormous head. {The Daily Swarm}

• KRS-ONE wrote a 600 page Hip-Hop Bible and begins the Rap Religion. Praise MC Hammer? {AV Club}

• Sub-Pop Records teams with Nike and now they have their own line of sneakers.  Too bad they are the ugliest sneakers ever made. {Hypebeast}

• Discover the “Social History of the MP3″ and then share it with some friends. {Pitchfork}

• Download the newest offering form The Islands‘ upcoming album Vapours. Mmmm jangly. {MOKB}

• Genesis P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop in will be featured in the new William S. Burroughs documentary. Oh, and it’s narrarated by Robocop’s Peter Weller. Nothing strange/awesome here. Nope, nothing at all. {TwentyFourBit}

• Scientists try to write the “ideal” David Bowie song. Yea, it’s as bad as you think. {YANP}

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Animal Collective’s “My Girls” is easily one of the best songs of the year and Taken By Trees laid-back, island-flavored version “My Boys” is easily one of the best covers in years. Listen:

Taken By Trees – “My Boys”

The song will be available on Taken By Trees’ upcoming album East of Eden, due out 9/8.

Filmmaker Jarbas Agnelli makes good use of one of this father’s Super-8 home movies by syncing it to the beautiful Jose Gonzalez song “Crosses”. The combination of the song and Agnelli’s fantastic editing make it truly poignant.

The fascinating work of the prolific, legendary producer and multimedia artist Brian Eno continues with his latest offering 77 Million Paintings, which is “a monitor-based exhibition that slowly evolves into endless combinations of colour and shape.” The piece will be on display at  CSULB Art Museum in Long Beach, CA from Sept. 12th-Dec.13th, and  Eno will discuss it during a his lecture at the museum on Sept 20th. Watch/listen to Eno discuss it briefly in this video…

(via Dangerous Minds)

Ever since I caught Alec Ounsworth (you may know him as the singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) perform an acoustic set of his solo material in 2006 at the now extinct Big Jar Books in Philly, I have been patiently waiting an album release. Sure I like CYHSY stuff, but this was something much more simple and more profound and intriguing. The songs didn’t necessarily rely on verse/chorus pop structure. They were more free-form and they highlighted his ability to reach Dylan-esque heights with his folk-storytelling.

This first track from his soon to be release solo record Mo Beauty is reminiscent of those songs I had heard at the bookstore. It’s a simple song with stripped-down beautiful arrangements. Hmmm, it looks as though my wait may be over…

{MP3} Alec Ounsworth – “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (song for New Orleans)”

Mo Beauty is out 10/20 on Anti-

F**k “I’m in a Kaleidoscopic Trance” Buttons…

(via Pitchfork)

“Surf Solar” is from Tarot Sport, which is out 10/20 on ATP.

Being a music blogger, copyright legalities interest me. Everything posted on this blog is legally permitted, however I do support all forms of file-sharing and video remixing and I think the industry should support it and work with it, as opposed to working against it and suing people…which gets us nowhere.

Yes, re-writing the copyright rules to fit today’s technology would be a tough task, but I along with the director of the new documentary on the subject, Rip! A Remix Manifesto strongly believe it is time to do so.

Inspired by the work of activist, author and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, and centered around the sometimes controversial methods of mash-up artist Girl Talk, the film dives head first into dissecting the history of copyright laws and incidents and transposing them upon our current creative landscape. Watch the trailer:

Appropriately enough, you can download the film here for how ever much money you want to pay…or for free. Director Brett Gaylor even encourages you to remix the film itself.

Like XXJFG points out, “there is something going on in Philadelphia”. Yea, maybe it’s the fact that Mayor Nutter’s recent budget-cut proposals may lead to the destruction of the city? Or maybe it’s simply an outpouring of interesting music in the area…which looks to be the case. However, if doom should occur on these streets, well this song from Philly band MEMES could serve as the spooky ambiance before the storm.

{MP3} MEMES – “Small”

“Small” is featured on the free comp from local label Badmaster. Grab it here.

• Journal of Music, published in Ireland, is “busting out of this stale mold, focusing instead on thoughtful observations and arguments about the shape and sound of songs, songwriting, and the listening experience.” But you still just want free music. {UTNE}

• Check out the Top 20 Songs of the Decade, as chosen by your best friends at P’fork. Totally change your life. {Pitchfork}

• Pink Floyd discuss the making of their classic song “Money”…for free. {YouTube}

• Miles Davis‘ Kind of Blue + Nintendos = Kind of Bloop {Time}

• The Moog gets merged with the guitar…and it’s about time! {Music Industry Newswire}

• Times New Viking pretend they are Yo La Tengo in Yo La Tengo’s new video for “Nothing to Hide”…and they look just as bored. {Daily Swarm}

• Walrus fav Memory Tapes announces details of his debut album…but I forget what they are. {GvsB}

• Finally, someone made album art from Rubiks Cubes! Yes! {Creative Review}

• MySpace aquires iLike. There is NO God. {Mashable}

• Marilyn Manson threatens to rape rocker’s face. Just one question. What took so long? {Undercover}

• Download the amazing 1968 s/t psych album from The United States of America. It’s your patriotic duty. {Decrepit Tapes}

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Check out this rad BBC documentary which surveys the London Hip-Hop scene in 1987.

(via Dangerous Minds)

This is wild! Reminds me of some of the stuff I saw being created at Philly’s Hacktory by Wil Lindsay and crew…

A champion of do‐it‐yourself music making, Moldover would never hog all the fun for himself. That’s why he designed his album’s intricately beautiful, circuit board CD artwork to be a first‐of‐its kind light theremin. Moldover fans can not only enjoy his tunes passively, but actually create their own warped‐out swoops and blorps, just by tapping the CD case.

Watch the video:

(via Sleevage)