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Hey Indie Nation,

Just catching up here on a Monday morning and saw this sad note (quoted from the AP): 

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60.

He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times.

Hey Indie Nation,

While there was no full ep news this morning concerning RADIOHEAD and that leaked track last week, they have claimed ownership of the tune "These Are My Twisted Words" (who else could it have been) and it can now be downloaded with artwork thru the band (We have been playing it since last Friday). I pulled this bit off of the Pitchfork site:

So far no there's no Wall Of Ice EP, but Radiohead's confirmed that "These Are My Twisted Words" is a new track and have given it a proper release.  Jonny (Greenwood) offers some background on the song and a few words about the future:

The Associated Press reports that the pioneering guitarist and inventor Les Paul died today in White Plains, New York of complications from pneumonia. He was 94. Though he accomplished many remarkable things during his long lifetime, Paul's biggest legacy remains his creation of the Les Paul model guitar.

Just got word of Willy passing on...

PUNK PIONEER WILLY DEVILLE DIES (8/10/09)
Willy DeVille, aka William Borsey, founder of influential New York City punk group Mink DeVille passed away from pancreatic cancer at New York's Cabrini Hospital on Thursday (8/6). He was 58. 

Hey Indie nation, you read that right, the UK Ska-pop legends MADNESS have just released a disc of new material called The Liberty Of Norton Folgate and you can check out the entire disc streaming here at Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/1709803

Bueller? Bueller?

We usually will post a  quick note when we lose someone from the world of music but, in this case, John Hughes had such GOOD TASTE in music, we wanted to bow down to the man who made some of the films that we Gen X'ers STILL talk about today. In his honor, we pulled out Pretty In Pink and showed it to our tween - he thought Duckie was the bomb.