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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

We've had the soundtrack, now Pearl Jam are hitting the cinemas with their Cameron Crowe-directed 20th anniversary documentary. The film is been screened the world over today in a host of cinemas. There are over 50 screenings in the UK this evening alone. See the band's anniversary website for timings and details.
Pj20.com/screenings

Arcade Fire have walked off with our favourite award named after a nuclear missle (frankly we don't care for Bangkok's ICBM Prize), the Polaris Music Prize for The Suburbs. The Montreal-based band pipped the likes of Ron Sexsmith, The Weeknd, Braids and Austra to Canada's version of the Mercury Prize.
Polarismusicprize.ca

The Dark Knight, meets Coldplay, meets Tree Of Life, meets Bright Eyes: that's how no one is pitching Terrence Malick's new movie, but they should have. The director and Christian Bale were spotting filming backstage at the weekend's Austin City Limits festival. And no they weren't capturing their favourite bands on their phones before you ask, there were proper cameras and everything.
Collider.com

Spare a thought for poor old Justin Timberlake. His plans to own the internet and make Myspace cool again are apparently not going smoothly according to industry gossip. He had to cancel a party to celebrate its relaunch because it's taking longer than expected. You'd have thought after starring in the bloody film about it, he would have know to buy Facebook instead.
Gawker.com

Thom Yorke played a small acoustic show in Cornwall at the weekend during the 2011 European Fish Fry, an event which celebrates "surfboards, music, art [and] surfing". So could the Radiohead frontman be the latest indie type (after Coldplay and MGMT) to be into 'catching the waves, man'? If so he's in luck as his big band have announced they're heading off to play New York's Roseland Ballroom next week (28, 29 September) along with a one hour special on The Colbert Report. Rockaway Beach will be just a Subway ride away...
Ateaseweb.com
Stereogum.com

Susan Boyle is covering Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence on her new album Someone To Watch Over Me (out 7 November)... What do you mean it's not the start of April?
Susanboylemusic.com

Here's Yuck playing their song Milkshake for online TV-ness Room 205.

Check out some vintage Daft Punk with this unreleased recording from 1994 (when the pair's robot suits were still steamed powered) entitled Drive.
Pitchfork.com

Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce... nope not the guest list for last night's Treetop Flyers single launch (though it can't have been far off for the Glasto emerging talent winners) but the MTV EMA's voting has opened ahead of the ceremony in Belfast on 6 November.
Mtvema.com

Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder has admitted that he once mistook Simply Red for his band. Having been slightly delayed to a a gig - a pub was involved, you understand - he made desperate dash to his show believing his band had taken the stage without him. "I jumped on stage and saw Mick Hucknall at the side of the stage and he said, What are you doing here?," recalls Ryder. "Our gig was next door." Imagine if he'd stayed...
Thesun.co.uk

Guided By Voices played what could be their last ever gig (again), headlining North Carolina's Hopscotch Festival. If you are unsure why this is a very important, yet sad event please contact this Q freelancer: Twitter.com/jj_dunning.
Brooklynvegan.com

Scratchy fan footage of a new Walkmen song? Well that will have to do until the band get near a studio. Here's Your Southern Heart (via Onethirtybpm.com):

There's a reissue of Nevermind coming out which has a lot of versions of all the songs indeed. Dan Stubbs goes hunting for hidden gems.
Qthemusic.com

Our pals Last.fm are curating a gigs next month. Live Fridays will take place at London's Relentless Garage on 7 October with CocknBullKid, Jess Mills and I Am Harlequin playing live. An "indie disco" is promised for afterwards - consider this our request in for Le Tigre's Deceptacon.
Last.fm/presents

Possibly the best album thanks ever? Laura Marling has insisted "Coffee, poached eggs and the Saturday crossword must get special mention for their contribution to this album", in the credits of A Creature I Don't Know (Q once helped her with a weekday puzzle and she's good). However she'll be doing her British crosswords online for the time being as following her album going top five in the UK, she has hit the road in America. Here's some nice snaps from her recent LA show.
Onethirtybpm.com

Early bird tickets for the 2012 Hop Farm festival go on sale from 23 September.
Hopfarmfestival.com

From now until the ceremony on 24 October, we will be showcasing each of this year's Q Awards nominees as track of the day. Kicking us off it's Adele's Rolling In The Deep.

That's it for today. Same place tomorrow, around 12 noon.

12:00 PM | 20/09/2011