MUSIC BUZZ – The boy-girl self-described “fantasy rock” duo is quietly making a name for themselves on the East Coast as they continue to draw comparisons to Postal Service and Broken Social Scene. Alongside labelmates MGMT, Savoir Adore is continuing in Brooklyn’s tireless fight to conquer the iTunes library of the skinny-jeans-and-bedhead set.

The Best Links:

1. Download 4 Savoir Adore Songs for $0.00!
2. Savoir Adore: “Backed by a Trained Chorus of Several Small Birds and Band of Guinea Pigs On Wheels”
3. Savoir Adore on MySpace!
4. Savoir Adore: “‘Creepy’ in the Best Ways Ever.”
5. “Some of Their Songs Remind Me of the Mellow Epicdom of Broken Social Scene, While Others Reminded Me of the Fun, Electro-pop Sounds of the Postal Service.”

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MUSIC BUZZ – Sheila Weller’s book focuses on the lives of Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell as they helped shape the musical landscape of the sixties and seventies, eagerly asserting that the tumultuous offstage lives of its subjects didn’t necessarily bruise their canons of work (if anything, it only strengthened them). Note to Feist: Not that we doubt your tremendous talent (or your Joni Mitchell-esque cheekbones), but we’re betting that a divorce or two might make you a Grammy-winning machine!

The Best Links:

1. Buy Girls Like Us
2. The New York Times Calls the Book “Entertaining and Intelligent”
3. Read a [Long] Excerpt From The Book
4. “Girls Like Us” is “Eminently Readable, if Somewhat Gossipy”
5. “Sure, Weller Gossips, But How Could She Not?” Pop Matters Calls “Girls Like Us” “Surprisingly Stellar”
6. Author Sheila Weller Takes You Back to the Era of Ponchos, Lady Troubadours, and Lilting Acoustics
7. Carly Simon and James Taylor: Still Butting Heads?
8. Feist’s “1234”

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MUSIC BUZZ – Meet the newest, hippest purveyors of “noise music.” Although such categorization may sound like a torture method straight out of Gitmo, the kids are loving it.

The Best Links:

1. ZOMG! F**k Buttons Rated 8.6 On Pitchfork!
2. F**k Buttons: The Official Site
3. Stereogum Gives F**k Buttons Two Indielicious Thumbs Up [Download “Bright Tomorrow” Here!]
4. The Village Voice Calls Their Music “Virtuosic, Complicated Noise”
5. Pop Matters Calls Their Music “Aural Waterboaring, Tender Or Tortuous, Melodic Or Mind-meltingly Loud”
6. F**k Buttons Tour Dates
7. “Bright Tomorrow” - Music Video Or Awesome Screen Saver?
8. Miami New Times Calls Their Music “Swollen, Mescaline Findfucks and Floaty, Ativan Reveries”
9. Most People Like F**k Buttons
10. F**k Buttons Live At The Woolfire Festival
11. Listen to More Tracks at Last.fm

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MUSIC BUZZ – One-upping himself (and Radiohead), Trent Reznor is giving away the brand new Nine Inch Nails album away for free online. You don’t even have the option of paying this time around. Just enter your email address and “The Slip” is yours, free, in a format of your choosing — you can also send the album to your high school friends who really loved NIN back in the day.

The Best Links:

1. Download “The Slip” Here, 100 Percent Free of Charge
2. NIN Gets Mucho Buzz on Twitter
3. Free Stuff is Cool
4. NIN’s Upcoming Tour Schedule
5. “thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me.”
6. “The Slip”: The New Nine Inch Nails Album That’s “One Hundred Percent Free” (With An E-Mail Address)
7. Available in MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and WAV Format

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MUSIC BUZZ – A fiery little thing, the self-proclaimed “princess of Harlem” - whose album is slated to drop later this year - is the irresistibly cute and colorful protege of hip hop phenom Pharrell Williams. She’s already choreographed a video for Beyonce, and is allegedly a pioneer of the Chicken Noodle Soup dance. How can you not love this girl? She’s like Kelis with a sense of humor!

The Best Links:

1. “Google Me” (The Video) …If Only She Would Throw a Line in There About Showing Up On Buzzfeed
2. Teyana Taylor: Official Site
3. Teyana Likes Shopping!
4. Behind the Scenes at the “Google Me” Shoot
5. It’s Official: Teyana Scared Jay-Z
6. Teyana Don’t Need No Finished Album to Grace a Magazine Cover

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MUSIC BUZZ – Agyness Deyn is launching a music career. She’ll be singing on a single called “Who,” a collaboration with a NYC band called Five o’ Clock Heroes. Who is this band??? They’re kind of like the Strokes if you…no, they’re pretty much like the Strokes, period. Agyness will hopefully channel some much-needed model angst into an otherwise generic sound.

The Best Links:

1. Supermodel Agness Deyn Teams Up With NY Band Five O’Clock Heroes
2. It Might Not Suck - Agy Is a Former Drama and Music Student
3. Agyness Deyn Is in a Punk Rock Band Called Lucky Knitwear
4. Five O’Clock Heroes on MySpace
5. She Probably Can’t Sing, But That’s Okay
6. “You can hear Aggy’s Northern roots, but she has a really sweet and feminine voice.”
7. YouTube - Agyness Deyn Interview at the NME Awards
8. The Poor Girl Is Sick of Partying
9. Kate Moss Annoyed That Agyness Deyn is Hanging Out With Pete Doherty
10. Agyness Releases Magnum on Vinyl

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MUSIC BUZZ – Honda’s adorable robot will conduct Yo-Yo Ma and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of “The Impossible Dream.” This only fuels our theory that Yo-Yo Ma is, in fact, a Cylon.

The Best Links:

1. Prepare For The Robomaestro
2. “The Irony of a Japanese Automaker Trotting Out an Advanced Robot in the Motor City Will Likely Be Lost On Most of the Attendees, Who Will Be Students from the Detroit School for the Arts.”
3. Robot to Conduct Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Bring Upon Us “Inevitable Apocalyptic War Against Machines”
4. Honda Is Also Forking Over $1M to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
5. ASIMO Vs. Slippery Stairs
6. ASIMO: TV STAR!

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MUSIC BUZZ – A NYC cable-access show featuring well-curated music videos picks up where MTV left off. Online episodes are now available. If you live in New York, you’ll find comfort in knowing that your precious tax dollars are going towards educating the masses about important life topics like indie rock bands and rediscovering irony. Anyone still unwilling to throw out those tattered VHS tapes of old episodes of 120 Minutes will surely appreciate this show.

The Best Links:

1. Watch New York Noise Online (or On TV)
2. An Interview with Shirley Braha, Producer of New York Noise
3. Watch Episodes Online here
4. I Just Discovered My New Favorite Band (Yeasayer) on New York Noise
5. Show Gives Unknown Artists a Chance to Be Heard
6. I Discovered Basia Bulat

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MUSIC BUZZ – The much-loved trip hop trio releases their first album in 10 years. Stream it now on Last.fm. Can it be nostalgic to listen to a new album? Really takes you back to the days of the Clinton Administration! The album comes out on April 29, but the pre-release on Last.fm has drawn a record number of listeners. Update: They’ve now limited the streams on Last.fm to 30 second clips, sadly.

The Best Links:

1. Listen to Third From Portishead Free at Last.fm
2. Some Sort of Weird, Radiohead-y Video Promo
3. Watch the Video for “Machine Gun”
4. “Has it been worth the wait? Frankly, no!”
5. R.I.P. Trip Hop
6. “Welcome back, trip-hop comfort food!”
7. Review: Yes, Worth the Waiting
8. The Web Weighs In

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MUSIC BUZZ – The tenor broke the Metropolitan Opera’s 14-year ban on solo encores after nailing nine high C’s to a thrilled crowd. He hit all the high notes in his encore, too. The last - and only other - guy to get an encore at the Met was somebody named Luciano Pavarotti, in 1994.

The Best Links:

1. Listen To Juan Diego Florez and the Met Encore
2. Florez’s Nine Thrilling C’s
3. A Pavarotti-Size Ovation
4. Breaking the Encore Ban
5. “It was fun to witness”
6. Not Too Shabby: 18 High C’s

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