There’s good news and bad news for Alex Turner fans! The bad news: The Last Shadow Puppets will not be touring until October. The good news: Arctic Monkeys revealed that they plan to work on new material over the summer for their forthcoming third album! Although we probably won’t see the new album this year, Turner claims the band has already recorded six demos of songs they’ve been playing on tour. Below are four live versions of songs likely to appear on the Monkeys’ third album for your listening pleasure!

MP3s:
Arctic Monkeys - “Sandtrap”
Arctic Monkeys - “The Lovers”
Arctic Monkeys - “The Fire and the Thud”
Arctic Monkeys - “Put Me in a Terror Pocket”

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If you have not yet heard, Trent Reznor loves the internets! Or maybe he just likes competing with Thom Yorke. Either way, his latest demonstration of web-lovin’ has involved offering Nine Inch Nails’ new single, “Discipline”, as a free download. Not to be outdone by his net nemesis’ “Nude” remix site, Reznor has also put together a (you guessed it!) remix site where fans can give the single a digital makeover.

MP3:
Nine Inch Nails - “Discipline”

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Looks like the mystery of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band has been solved! The Bright Eyes frontman has revealed the details of his first solo album in 12 years (his last solo effort was 1996’s Soundtrack to My Movies, issued on cassette by a teenage Oberst). The singer-songwriter plans to release the new album in the US via Merge Records on August 5th, making it his first not to be released domestically on Saddle Creek (the Omaha label with which he’s been associated since he began recording in the early ’90s). Oberst recorded and produced the album himself (with assistance from engineer Andy LeMaster) in Tepoztlán, Morelos, México in January and February of this year at a temporary studio in the mountain villa Valle Místico on the outskirts of town.

The album’s tracklisting is:

Cape Cañaveral
Sausalito
Get-Well-Cards
Lenders In The Temple
Danny Callahan
I Don’t Want To Die (In The Hospital)
Eagle On A Pole
Moab
NYC — Gone, Gone
Valle Místico (Ruben’s Song)
Souled Out!!!
Milk Thistle

For an audio preview of The Mystic Valley Band’s sound, check out Hypeful’s previous post of the group performing live.

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For a recent Green Issue of their publication, Billboard put together a list of the top 10 green artists who have made a difference to the environment over the past 12 months. Check out their full list after the jump and you can download a PDF copy of the Green Issue here!

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Judd Apatow’s latest production may have helped you to laugh and forget Sarah Marshall, but it may have simultaneously left you with a Jonah Hill-sized man crush on fictional Infant Sorrow frontman Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). If so, you’ll definitely want to check out this collection of funny bonus material featuring the contemporary English rocker - including a couple of Infant Sorrow tracks, the uncut music video for “We’ve Got to Do Something,” and a must-see clip of Aldous hosting a children’s television program!

MP3s:
Infant Sorrow - “We’ve Got To Do Something”
Infant Sorrow - “Inside of You”

VIDEOS:
Aldous Snow Presents The Letter “U”

Aldous Snow and Infant Sorrow - “We’ve Got To Do Something” Music Video

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Want to know how Rivers Cuomo maintains his “just-like-Buddy-Holly” image? According to the self-esteem boosting lyrics of Weezer’s new single (”Pork & Beans”), Cuomo’s regimen of cool involves rejecting “Rogaine” and “Oakley shades.” Whatever happened to just wearing a nice sweater? Anyhoo, Weezer are now streaming “Pork & Beans” on their official website for your listening enjoyment.

STREAM:
Weezer - “Pork & Beans”

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If there’s one thing better than an interview with the indestructible Keith Richards, it’s a Q&A where you get to hear Keef answer questions with his own voice! Blender recently interviewed the Rolling Stones guitarist and posted the audio of him discussing the worst jail cell he’s ever been in, the proper use of a knife, what he really did with his dad’s ashes, and other topics only Keef could colorfully pontificate upon! Check it out here.

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Following the release of their single “Dance With Me,” the Old 97’s have announced plans to gradually release all of the tracks from their upcoming album Blame It On Gravity until it drops on May 13th. Two new songs will be added to the band’s MySpace page every four to five days. The first two songs up for your listening pleasure are “The Fool” and “The Easy Way.”

STREAM:
Old 97’s - “The Fool”
Old 97’s - “The Easy Way”

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A freshly-blonde Lily Allen has revealed two demos from her upcoming album. Hoping to give fans a peek at her new musical direction and perhaps revealing a bit of newfound blond ambition, Allen has shared the tracks “I Don’t Know” (a biting treatise against modern consumerism and the Heidi Montags of the world) and “I Could Say” (a piano break-up/kiss-off ballad). With assurances of more studio updates as she works on her new material, Allen has also promised to drop a new mixtape sometime in the near future.

MP3s:
Lily Allen - “I Could Say”
Lily Allen - “I Don’t Know”

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If you enjoy Danger Mouse’s production and Cee-Lo’s modern soul, but wish their already-eclectic sounds were a bit more dyslexic…swen doog s’ereht there’s good news! Gnarls Barkley is offering up their latest album, The Odd Couple, backwards as a free download. Entitled elpuoC ddO ehT, the bizarro album features reversed vocals and backwards beats all in one, free thirty-eight-minute-long track. Although elpuoC ddO ehT doesn’t seem to make any requests for the listener to commit suicide or surrender their life to Satan, further listening might cryptically reveal that “Danger Mouse is dead.”

DOWNLOAD:
Gnarls Barkley - elpuoC ddO ehT

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