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Daft Punk has been made available to the massess through the oldstream media groups like cable TV providers as a Pay Per View happening. For the month of December, Electroma will be on tap from cable providers like Comcast, Cox, Insight, MediaCom, Charter, ATT, Time Warner or Verizon Cable.

Deerhoof have released a free MP3 album of live performances, outtakes, remixes, and covers. It's currently being offered on the Kill Rock Stars web site. "OK it's been too long since we offered anything free on our page! Here is an mp3 album, live and goodies. I don't know how long we can keep these up here, I might recommend downloading now and asking questions later. Play back with 0 seconds pause between songs..." said the band on their web site. You can also check them out on tour when they play with some really big names: Bloc Party, Smoosh, and an incredible London show with Liars, Deerhunter, Black Lips as part of All Tomorrow's Parties Release The Bats festival. Check out more tour dates below. MP3: Deerhoof Deerhoof Tour Dates: sep 21 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live (w/ J Versus and Bloc Party) sep 22 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues (w/ J Versus and Bloc Party) sep 23 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom (w/ Smoosh and Bloc Party) sep 25 - Nashville, TN...

Black Dice are moving quickly towards their October 23rd release of Load Blown , and have announced a set of shows for November in support of the album. They've just recently signed to Paw Tracks to release the album, so Animal Collective's collection grows larger. Their live experience is nothing short of mind-blowing as you can see in this video from a FatCat Records showcase... MP3: Black Dice Black Dice Tour Dates 11-01 Boston, MA - Nom D'Artiste 11-02 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa 11-03 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee's 11-04 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University 11-05 Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theatre 11-06 Minneapolis, MN - Soo Visual Arts Center 11-09 Seattle, WA - Neumos Crystal Ballroom 11-12 San Francisco, CA - 12 Galaxies 11-22 Philadelphia, PA - Vacuum 11-23 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom

Okkervil River have released their new video for Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe in the run up to their newly announced tour dates for North America and Europe. The video was directed by Margaret Brown and is inducing descriptive words like "indie-noir" and "near cinematic experience" to describe both the album and the video. The video does have high production values and might actually change the way you think of hotel rooms. You can catch them on a long set of dates including some shows with Damien Jurado, in which, the band is guaranteed to stay in hotel rooms. We'll see how the marriage thing goes. Okkervil River: Tour Dates 08/30 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad 08/31 - Phoenix, AZ - The Brickhouse 09/01 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress 09/03 - San Diego, CA - Casbah 09/04 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour 09/05 - San Francisco, CA - Independent 09/07 - Eugene, OR - Wow Hall 09/08 - Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan (MusicFest NW) 09/09 - Vancouver, British Columbi...

Just in is the news that Iceland's own Sigur Ros have signed to XL Recordings for the release of their upcoming CD release of Hvarf / Heima . The album will b packaged with a release of the now (almost) famous DVD release of Heima . You can check out a video preview of the DVD here . XL Recordings will oversee the U.S. release which comes out on November 6th.