The members of Surfer Blood (pictured) couldn’t resist the temptation to run through the city in tighty-whities and Disney costumes in the video for “Swim.” Check it out here. [Stereogum]

A collaboration between Lady Gaga and Elton John might make its way to the stage this Sunday at the Grammys, though the rumor is yet to be confirmed. [Spinner]

No Age is working on an album and hopes to release it this summer. [Pitchfork]

More Jimi Hendrix tracks will be released March 9 in the album Valleys of Neptune—here is a taste. [Spinner]

Yeasayer (pictured) is giving away “O.N.E.,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Odd Blood, here. [Stereogum]

Passion Pit has been remixed a bunch of times—now the band is the one doing the remixing, for Lady Gaga’s single “Telephone” (featuring Beyoncé!). Check it out here. [Pitchfork]

Susan Sarandon joined in at Of Montreal’s show yesterday at the Highline Ballroom…spanking humans dressed as pigs. [Brooklyn Vegan]

Grizzly Bear tracks will appear in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, Blue Valentine. [TwentyFourBit]

The Hold Steady’s keyboard player Franz Nicolay (pictured) will no longer be a part of the band. [Spinner]

A 3-D version of Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” minimovie will air on Sunday, January 31, during the Grammy Awards ceremony. Get your 3-D lenses at Target or Staples! [ABC News]

Download Sub Pop’s 25-track sampler here, featuring new and old classics from the label. [Nylon]

Cool Coco Sumner (Sting’s offspring) and Robyn appear in this Diplo remix of “Ceasar.” The DJ is also fronting the production for the Scandinavian songstress’s next album. [Fader]

The New Pornographers’ fifth full-length album, Together, is coming out May 4. [Matador Records]

Playing here is “Stylo,” a Gorillaz track featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, from the band’s forthcoming third release, Plastic Beach. And if you’ll be anywhere near California in April, you can catch Gorillaz as one of the headliners at Coachella. [Stereogum]

Vampire Weekend’s Contra topped the Billboard charts this week. Read our feature here. [Pitchfork]

Listen to Beach House’s Teen Dream streaming in its entirety here, courtesy of NPR. [Fader]

Check out this new video for “Resistance,” by Muse (pictured), which is action-packed with footage from the band’s 2009 tour. [Spin]

Nick Jonas feels jittery because he doesn’t know how fans will react to his solo album, Who I Am, to be released February 2. [MTV]

The music world suffered two losses yesterday: Teddy Pendergrass and Jay Reatard. Here is a Reatard photo tribute by No Age, along with a collection of artists’ reactions to Reatard’s death. [Pitchfork]

Catch the film-noir-ish video for Air’s “So Light Is Her Football” here. [Stereogum]

Coldplay has been sued by one Sammie Lee Smith, who claims the band stole his music for “Clocks,” “Trouble” and “Yellow.” [Rolling Stone]

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Joanna Newsom will release her third album, Have One on Me, on Feb 23 [Pitchfork]

Memory Tapes tour this year, hitting the Bell House on February 3. [Consequence of Sound]

M.I.A. tweeted about a new song and video, “There’s Space for Ol Dat I See,” which could be one of the tracks featured on her upcoming album. Watch it here. [Spin]

Last night on Jimmy Fallon’s show, Ringo Starr and ?uestlove drummed away while The Roots performed their usual closing sequence. Footage is here. [NBC]

Slash turned down millions of dollars to reunite with Axl Rose. [The Daily Swarm]

The creatures used in MGMT’s “Kids” video are on auction here; proceeds will benefit the Children Art Foundation. Congratulations, the follow-up to MGMT’s debut, Oracular Spectacular, comes out this spring. [Pitchfork]

If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the video for Girls’ “Morning Light.” [Stereogum]

Liars, pictured, will release a two-CD deluxe album packed with remixes by Thom Yorke, Tunde Adebimpe, Bradford Cox and more. Sisterworld comes out March 9, and tickets are on sale now for the band’s gigs April 15 and 18. [BrooklynVegan]

Billy Corgan launched his own record label, with The Germs as the first artist on its roster. [Consequence of Sound]

Want to hear the latest Dead Weather music? Sign up here to preview the early versions of “No Horse” and “Jawbreaker.” [Pitchfork]

Alanis Morrissette is coming up with her own twist on Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias’s “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” except she’s changing the girls to boys. Nelson will play on her song, too. [Spinner]

Legendary soul diva Mavis Staples, pictured, is joining forces with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to produce her next album. [Pitchfork]

The great producer Willie Mitchell, well known for his collaborations with Al Green, died yesterday from heart complications. Green posted commemoration images here. [NME]

Check out Xiu Xiu’s new song “Gray Death” here, along with band-related news (including tour information). [Pitchfork]

Pharrell Williams has joined the list of musicians-turned-film-composers, as he writes the music for the film Despicable Me, out July 9. [Coming Soon]

Vampire Weekend performed “Cousins” on Letterman last night. Here’s the video—the band’s  Contra album is streaming here. [Spin]

In case you missed it, the Knife is writing an opera. [The Volume]

Katy Perry and British comedy icon Russell Brand are engaged. [Rolling Stone]

You might have heard Vampire Weekend’s “White Sky” before, but not the mastered edition in all its glory that’s streaming over at the band’s MySpace page. (Vampire Weekend pictured, above.) [PreFix Mag]

John Frusciante officially announced he’s left the Red Hot Chili Peppers, after a few rumors arose earlier this week. Josh Klinghoffer is rumored to replace the guitarist. [Consequence of Sound]

On April 27, the Deftones will release an as-yet unnamed follow-up album to 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist. [Consequence of Sound]

MGMT, the Horrors, Vampire Weekend and more posed for this Vogue photo shoot featuring Steven Meisel behind the lens. [ohnotheydidn't]

Come January 5, you’ll be able to relive Kanye West’s Storytellers (which aired this past February) when the CD/DVD hits stores everywhere. Watch the clip of “Stronger” here. [Pitchfork]

There’s more material coming from She & Him, the folk duo featuring Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, which is to release a second album titled Volume Two (who would’ve thought?) in April. [NME]

Worry no more: The Jelly NYC Pool Parties will, indeed, go on next year. [Village Voice]

Silversun Pickups will join Muse for a few dates on its tour next year, which hits Madison Square Garden on March 5. [Filter]

Toronto’s Fucked Up invited a few of its friends (including Ezra Koenig and Kyp Malone) to record a cover of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” now available on iTunes. All proceeds go to Canadian organizations working on solving the problem of indigenous women reported missing or murdered. [Stereogum]

Sigur Rós’ Jónsi Birgisson revealed the track listing for his upcoming solo album Go, slated for a March 23 release and accompanied by a world tour. Download a free track here. [Pitchfork]

This new video for These New Puritans’s “We Want War” exhibits a great deal of slow-motion artistry and effects. The single is on Hidden, out January 18. [Stereogum]

Tori Amos fans can click here to enter a drawing to attend an intimate, invitation-only show she’s putting on Wednesday in New York. [@therealtoriamos]

The first of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 44-track opus Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, “A Song for a Sun,” is available to listen to listen here. The album will be released song by song. [Pitchfork]

Lightspeed Champion says he has 50 bootleg albums ready for release, the first of which you can download here. [Consequence of Sound]

Cat Power feels guilty about playing with a backing band and not by herself, so on her next album she’s going solo. Though this would be her follow-up to 2008’s Jukebox, 2006’s The Greatest was her last album featuring original material. [NME]

Apple, which already controls 70 percent of all digital music sales, has acquired music-streaming service Lala. [Rolling Stone]

This year’s Grammy nomination surprises include MGMT, the Ting Tings, Silversun Pickups (pictured), and more. Oh, and Beyoncé and Taylor Swift nabbed ten and eight nominations respectively. [New York Daily News]

Adam Yauch hinted at possibly rounding up the Beasties and playing Coachella in 2010. [Movieline]

Norah Jones recruited a few unlikely suspects in the making of her new album The Fall. Listen to Santigold’s remix of “Chasing Pirates” here and “That’s What I Said” remixed by Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock and Mike D here. [Pitchfork]

The Arcade Fire entered the studio with producer Markus Dravs (Björk, Coldplay, Brian Eno) to record the band’s as-of-yet unnamed album that will drop in 2010. [Billboard]

Get an early look at Final Fantasy’s Heartland, slated to drop in 2010, by clicking here to download “Lewis Takes Action.” [Domino Records]

Scenes of driving around the countryside abound in this Dodos video for “Longform.” [Pitchfork]

Click here to download a taste of the upcoming Shearwater LP Golden Archipelago “Castaways.” The band’s LP comes out February 23. [Stereogum]

After grabbing the world’s attention with her appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle is rocking the charts with her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, achieving the highest first-week sales for 2009. [@arjanwrites]

Amazon is giving away a holiday-themed download each day in December leading up to Christmas. Today’s catch is Tori Amos’s “Snow Angel” from Midwinter Graces. Download it here. [@therealtoriamos]

Neon Indian remixed tracks from Grizzly Bear’sVeckatimest in its own lo-fi, synth-happy style here. [Pitchfork]

Curious to see how the Black Crowes recorded Before the Frost? Check out this trailer of the band’s DVD documentary “Cabin Fever,” out now. [Megaforce Records]

The Sounds take a plunge in the band’s video for “Beatbox” here. [Idolator]

Muse will appear on this year’s pre-Christmas Saturday Night Live episode, December 19. [Consequence of Sound]

Ringo Starr, pictured, announced an upcoming self-produced album, Y Not, with guest stars like Paul McCartney. The album comes out January 12. [Rolling Stone]

The members of Vampire Weekend trek up and down an alley in the new video for “Cousins” here. [Pitchfork]

Eminem plans to release a deluxe version of this year’s Relapse, which will feature seven bonus tracks that didn’t make the cut. [Consequence of Sound]

Lupe Fiasco, Bruce Springsteen and more will appear in a documentary based on the book A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. [The Daily Swarm]

Check out the crazy-cool video for Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck’s “Heaven Can Wait” here. [Pitchfork]

Belle and Sebastian, pictured, might be working on a new album, according to a clue left on the band’s website. (Read the band’s 2003 TONY interview here.) [Consequence of Sound]

Members of the Velvet Underground—Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule— will get together December 8 to chat with rock journalist David Fricke at the New York Public Library. [Paste]

The two members of garage duo King Khan & BBQ Show were arrested—according to rumors, because of possession of drug paraphernalia. (Click here for TONY’s 2006 interview with the band.) [Consequence of Sound]

Hundreds of sneakers that belonged to the late DJ A.M. will be auctioned off on eBay. Proceeds will benefit organizations that deal with substance abuse and recovery. [MTV]

Catch Animal Collective’s trippy new video for “In the Flowers” here, and watch Monsters of Folks play in the rural outdoors on the video for “Say Please” here. [Pitchfork]

Liam and the rest of Oasis are forming a new band—sans Noel. [Billboard]

Lady Gaga showed up for a fashion shoot with Vogue naked but for a white rubber raincoat. [MTV]

The xx, pictured, has transformed from a party of four into a trio—keyboardist-guitarist Baria Qureshi has left the fast-rising group. [Pitchfork]

Is Steven Tyler leaving or not leaving Aerosmith? Turns out the band’s frontman just wants a two-year break—while the rest of the group keeps working. [Paste]

Gorillaz approached Alan Moore (of V for Vendetta and Watchmen fame) to write the libretto for an opera the band is working on, following 2007’s Monkey: Journey to the West. [@blurmusic]

Check out Solange Knowles’ cover of Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness Is the Move” here. [TONY]

Jay-Z signed The Ting Tings to his label, Roc Nation, and hopes to lend his production skills to future records. [Paste]

Download Atlas Sound’s Virtual seven-inch single here. [Fader]

Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne bares all in the new orgiastic video for Embryonic’s “Watching the Planets” here (also check out what other bands have to say about the Lips here). [Pitchfork]

Lady Gaga looks like a pregnant ballerina in these pictures taken for the Italian Vanity Fair. Also, catch the new sci-fi video for “Bad Romance” here. [MTV]

Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is available for a free download here. [@current_music]

Kanye West released his third book this year, Through the Wire, complete with illustrations by Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton and notes by West that reveal the meaning behind some of his most autobiographical songs. [Paste]

The two members of the Fiery Furnaces, the Friedberger siblings, perform solo versions of their work on Take Me Round Again. [Pitchfork]

Download Vetiver’s “More of This (Neighbors RMX)” for free here. [@subpop]

Hot Chip revealed that the band’s next album, One Life Stand, will come out February 9. [Spin]

The Magnetic Fields are also coming out with a new album next year, Realism, January 26. [Under the Radar]

Check out Jarvis Cocker’s video for “Further Complications” here, which alludes to Madonna’s “Human Nature” clip. [Idolator]

The Raveonettes, pictured, are offering a free download of “The Chosen One” here. [Consequence of Sound]

Jay-Z came out and rapped during U2’s show yesterday in Berlin. Catch it here. [The L Magazine]

The Diplo-produced follow-up to M.I.A.’s Kala is being billed as Animal Collective meets Gucci Mane. [NME]