• If you couldn’t make it to see Panda Bear at ATP NYC this year, here’s the next best thing. A quality rip of his set. {MegaUpload}

• Poet and Musician Jim Carroll (author of The Basketball Diaries) “died died died” and will be missed. {NYTimes}

• An official tumblr blog for the Kanye West VMAs awardus interruptus meme has been created. Will it ever end? {Imma Let You Finish}

• In a local boy makes filthy story, Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric stars in the new Clues (mems. of Arcade Fire) music video. You’ll love it, perv. {Videogum}

• Pavement are reuniting for a 2010 World Tour…amd the backlash has already begun {The Daily Swarm}

• Despite his passing, Patrick Swayze will always be with us in films and HIP-HOP {Hip Hop is Read}

• The Flaming Lips brought their new single to The Colbert Report this week and let the world’s only charming conservative stream their new album in full on his website for a limited time only. Maybe Republicans aren’t so bad? Eh, who am I kidding? {Pitchfork}

• Matt Picasso talks to Will Cullen Hart of Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System fame. ME WANTS NEW OTC MUSIC NOW!!! {YANP}

• The classic Spiritualized album Ladies and Gentlemen…is getting the re-issue treatment with a Special edition version sporting 12 mini-discs packaged like prescription pills. Duuude, drugs are so cool again. {Pitchfork}

• The music industry just keeps getting more and more evil everyday. Their latest attempt at screwing us over is a real delight. {Gizmodo}

BONUS: If you are in Philly this Saturday, you have two sweet options for shows: awesome Swedish band The Sounds at the TLA or Philly’s own excellent Gildon Works at Johnny Brenda’s. If you got talent you may be able to make both.

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Despite having the greatest title in all of film history, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, the sequel to the classic ’80s break-dancing movie, failed to live up to the original (surprise!). However, like its predecessor it did have a an awesome soundtrack and it did feature another guest cameo from Ice-T. Fact: Anything featuring Ice-T is automatically awesome. Here are two of my favorite tracks from the soundtrack, which scream motivational ’80s bubblegum electro and are perfect for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING except dancing while rollerskating OR just being stoked on life.

{MP3} Mark Scott – “I Don’t Wanna Come Down”
{MP3} Carol Lynn Townes – “Believe in the Beat”

The actual soundtrack disc is rare, but you may find more mp3s floating around on torrents. Read another review of the soundtrack and watch the trailer for the film here.

I’m loving this Generationals 7″. The song’s sunny disposition and early ’60s style arrangement. It’s like a sedated Go! Team for the mellow set.

{MP3} Generationals – “When They Fight, They Fight”

The 7″ and album from which it is taken, Con Law, are available now at Park the Van.

Here’s a well-shot video for one my favorite tunes from the A Place Bury Strangers album. Turn up the volume and watch…

Pre-order the new album Exploding Head now from Insound.

Bipolar Bear’s fun surf-rock tune “Goth Time Rag” from the new album Harlem Pripyat is ALMOST as good as their name…

{MP3} Bipolar Bear – “Goth Time Rag”

Here’s a new video from Chad VanGaalen’s side project Black Mold. The “sketch book doodles come to life” animation (created by VanGaalen) reminds me of the films One Crazy Summer and Better Off Dead…except no cute and fuzzy bunnies.

While we are on the subject Mr. V, here’s a choice mp3 from the free album of Soft Airplane B-Sides that VanGaalen just released on his website:

{MP3} Chad VanGaalen – “Pyramids Float”

Sure, by now you may know that Kanye West pulled a douchey move at the VMAs last night and ruined a magical moment for the young country-pop star Taylor Swift. Not that I give a shit about either of them or the VMAs, but it was definitely entertaining, and undoubtedly rude. In case you missed the “diss heard ’round the world”, watch it below:

Yeeeaaa, Kanye shame on you, blah blah blah… Now, the beauty of the YouTube world in which we live is not that this clip was available for all to see almost immediately after it happened, but that it was remixed with another recent pop culture moment, brilliantly I might add, just as quickly. WATCH:

HILARIOUS!

I’m sure there will be more to come. Add them in the comments when you find them!

I haven’t been able to stop listening to this track since Saturday. Kid Cudi may have been snubbed at the VMAs this year for Best New Artist (not that that has any dictation on quality, whatsoever…in fact it’s known to be the kiss of death) but me thinks he has a hit on his hands with this one…

Bonus: Live version from the David Letterman show:

“Pursuit of Happiness” is from Kid Cudi’s new album Man on the Moon: The End of Day, out tomorrow, 9/15.

• Watch videos of the ’60s Garage band The Cavemen on The Mike Douglas Show. Rumor has it they were from Jersey {WFMU}

• Author and music enthusiast Nick Hornby discusses the benefits of MP3 Blogs. Amen! {Guardian}

• Discover Beatle-Mania Gay-style, it gives new meaning to “The Fab Four” {Trip Out}

• Curious as to what the world will look like in the year 2080? Check out the new Empire of the Sun video for “Without You”. {Stereogum}

• Public Image Ltd are set to return for a series of very special performances for the first time in 17 years this Decemeber. Nothing says “‘Tis the season…” like Johnny Lydon. {PiL Official Website}

• Cut Chemist’s new video is the first to be shot with a 360 Panoramic view, but actually looks like it was shot through a fun house mirror. {Dancefloor Mayhem}

• Apple’s 09/09/09 music event disappoints. Why can’t iTunes read my mind yet?? WTF? {ZDNet}

• Watch some chick named jj cover the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song. Eh, up her nose with a rubber hose! {Discobelle}

• The Smith Westerns went and cleaned up their sound a bit. Grab a new mp3 from the band and pretend like it’s still Summer. {GvsB}

• Ellen DeGeneres gets sued by record labels for playing songs on her show without permission. What’s next, record labels suing old ladies? Oh, wait…nevermind. {NYT}

• BREAKING NEWS: Fever Ray’s videos are STILL THE MOST BIZARRE VIDEOS ON THE WEB. {Big Stereo}

• Phoenix front-man Thomas Mars talks about his love for vinyl and keeping things secret, but you didn’t hear that from me. {Art in the Age}

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Toronto’s Diamond Rings aka John O. has released a charming little electro-acoustic love song that sounds nothing like the way his MySpace page looks (or the pic above for that matter), which may or may not be a good thing.

{MP3} Diamond Rings – “All Yr Songs”

It’s pouring here in Philadelphia at the moment and this simple, beautiful song from ’80s New Zealand band The Jean Paul Sartre Experience romanticizes what most people see as an annoyance. “I Like Rain” was featured on their 1988 Flying Nun-released album Love Songs and has recently been covered, very well I might add, by Lali Puna and members of The Notwist on Morr Music’s compilation Not Given Lightly…

{MP3} The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – “I Like Rain”

Paste Magazine picks the best worst voices in indie rock — “the kind that isn’t classically good, but its technical problems just make it more lovable.”

I’d like to add Kurt Heasley of The Lilys please.