Pitchfork has a review of My Bloody Valentine’s show in London, the first gig of their long-awaited reunion tour.

Jolie Holland has announced she will release her forth full-length, The Living And The Dead, on October 7th via Anti-.

The fastest guitar player on the planet is….Dave Hill???

Surburban Home has signed former Gunmoll leader Mike Hale. He will have a new record out for the label sometime in 2009. Check out the man’s past work at his Myspace. It rules.

Since The Love Guru did so poorly at the box office, has the world FINALLY realized that Mike Myers has been rehashing the same freakin’ characters for years? Probably not. Lord knows It won’t stop him from making sequel after sequel.

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Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields’ performance of The Coral Sea will finally see a proper release. The double-disc documents a spoken word performance of Smith’s book of the same title with Shields providing guitar as the background. The recording is from two gigs that happened on June 22nd, 2005 and September 12th, 2006 at the QEH in London.

The work was a tribute to Smith’s late friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The Coral Sea will be released on July 11 via their duo’s PASK imprint.

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The famed All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival is coming to New York. If you are a blog-surfing individual, I’m sure you’ve heard the lineup. You’ve got My Bloody Valentine’s first U.S. show in sixteen years. Along with that, you get Built To Spill, Shellac, Mogwai, Thurston Moore, and Meat Puppets, among a shit ton of others. On that note, anyone wanna buy me a ticket?

ATP NY goes down on September 19-21 in Monticello, NY. Full lineup after the jump.

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Former Air and Redd Kross drummer Brian Reitzell, who has composed music for Sophia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and The Virgin Suicides, won’t be dealing with ScarJo for his next project but instead bloodsucking mutant vampires. Reitzell will release his score for the anticipated adaptation of the graphic novel 30 Days of Night on Ipecac on October 30th. 

 Should be interesting to see what he does this time around. Although, I can’t see My Bloody Valentine or Air blasting while vampires get their feast on. Actually, that might be kinda awesome.

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