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Pretty entertaining old commercial for Honda Scooters from the 80's featuring Devo.

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Deerhoof have released a free MP3 EP on the Kill Rock Stars website, and it features covers of Beatles, My Bloody Valentine, Canned Heat, and Herman's Hermits. It seems to be all jammed into one big file, but click here for the isolated MBV cover track. [via Stereogum]

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John Kricfalusi and Katie Rice are going to exhibit and sell their work at Every Picture Tells A Story in Santa Monica this Sunday. After the show, watch a bunched of BANNED John K cartoons at the theater across the street. Click here for a link to banned works that will be shown. [via Boing Boing]

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Sun-Ra would have been 92 years old today -- listen to 32 hours straight of his music on WKCR, an NYC radio station.

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The RU Sirius show has posted an MP3 interview with Director Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World, Bad Santa) and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes (Eightball) about their fab new film, Art School Confidential. The film opens nationwide tomorrow, Friday May 12.

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So I guess I'll go ahead and bite on this whole Pipettes blogging hysteria -- seems they've got everything they need for buzz: three cute broads and a "Belle & Sebastian" type of sound. From the looks of their video, all they seem to do is sing ... and it seems they are breaking some serious play records on their MySpace site. But no matter, let's all sit back, relax, and watch these gals take the music world by storm.

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They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

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I hate to link up to Pitchfork for news, since it doesn't need any additional promotion, but today's Fall news is just too great to pass up.

Click here for all the rumors and entertaining goodness that is the latest Fall tour breakdown, with details that outline the fact that their current opening band seems to be pretty fed up with Mark E. Smith. I must say its pretty fantastic that Smith is still at it like this so many years into his career, as much as I sympathize with these young folk who try and tolerate him on tour.

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Sonic Youth have announced a three week headlining tour of the USA which will get started up at CBGB's June 13. Complete dates for this leg are listed below left. Also starting at this time, former Pavement bassist Mark Ibold will join the band as touring bass player.

Later in the summer, the band will perform 7 dates with Pearl Jam starting July 6 at the MGM Grand in in Las Vegas July 6. Tickets are through ticketmaster. SY have also announced three US festival dates for this coming summer, which are at the Bonnaroo Festival on June 18, the Kuyahoga Festival on August 3 in Cleveland, and the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago on August 5.

Sonic Youth will play three dates in Australia this July. First they will appear at this year's Splendour in the Grass Festival in Byron Bay, Australia on Saturday July 22. Others on the bill include the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Brian Wilson and TV on the Radio. Tickets and information are available through the festival site. SY will then play on the 24th at the Palace in Melbourne and the 26th in Sydney at the Enmore. This summer will also see the return of Sonic Youth to Fujirock, alongside such acts as the Yeah Yeah Yeah's and Killing Joke.

And before the tour starts, Thurston and Kim, plus daughter Coco on shakers, will appear on the May 9 epsisode of "Gilmore Girls" to perform an acoustic version of the new SY song "What a Waste."

SONIC YOUTH TOUR DATES

June 13 New York, NY CBGB
June 14 Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia, PA SOLD OUT
June 15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
June 17 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
June 18 Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, TN
June 19 Atlanta, GA Earthlink Live
June 21 Tulsa, OK Caine's Ballroom
June 23 Austin, TX Stubbs BBQ
June 24 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tearoom
June 26 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
June 27 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre
June 29 Missoula, MT UM Theatre
June 30 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
July 1 Portland, OR Roseland Ballroom
July 3 Sacramento, CA Empire
July 4 Reno, NV The Theatre at Reno Hilton
July 6 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV with Pearl Jam
July 7 Cox Arena, San Diego, CA with Pearl Jam
July 9 Forum, Los Angeles, CA with Pearl Jam
July 10 Forum, Los Angeles, CA with Pearl Jam
July 13 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA with Pearl Jam
July 16 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, S.F. CA with Pearl Jam
July 18 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, S.F. CA with Pearl Jam
July 22 Splendour in the Grass Festival, Byron Bay, Australia
July 24 Palace Melbourne, Australia
July 26 Enmore, Sydney, Australia
July 29 Fujirock Festival, Japan
August 3 Kuyahoga Festival, Cleveland, OH
August 5 Lollapalooza Festival, Chicago, IL
December 8-10 Nightmare Before Christmas Somerset, UK

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Jack Black will star in "Be Kind Rewind." The film stars Black as a man who becomes accidentally magnetized while trying to sabotage a power plant. His magnetic field erases all the tapes in the video store where his best friend works. To save the store, the duo re-enact and re-film every movie that its single loyal customer, an elderly woman, rents. Michel Gondry (The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) will write and direct and Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, Art School Confidential) penned the script. [Source: Variety]

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