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The Week According to Prefix: 11.19.10
First and foremost: congratulations, Internet. WithThe Beatles finally getting on to iTunes, you've solidified your status as the ultimate source for legally purchasing music. Now you just need to snag AC/DC and Garth Brooks and you'll be golden. And with Cults getting signed to Columbia after just a handful of blog hits, you've definitively proved your starmaking power.The Internet, of course, would be nothing without the fans that keep it running, and they proved their tireless dedication once again this week. Girl Talk -- his mash-ups being the ultimate ode to eclectic fandom -- released his long-awaited new album this week, and within days some heroic music nerd had posted an exhaustive guide to all its samples. Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -- which, try to remember, isn't even "officially" out yet -- got the same treatment. (You can download it here.)
If the Internet is doing its best to make listening to music a personal -- maybe even lonely -- experience, it's the music festivals that are acting as a fine counter, bringing the fans together. Bonnaroo and Sasquatch are both celebrating their 10th anniversaries next year, and both announced their 2011 dates this week (check Bonnaroo's here and Sasquatch's here). The comparatively young M for Montreal is taking place at this very moment, and our own Andrew Winistorfer, tired of CMJ's predictability, has decided to give us an American spin on the whole deal (check out his first day coverage here). Oh, and the Rolling Stones might be playing Coachella, but, you know, who cares.
Before we can break out the festival gear, though, we have to make our way through the holiday season, and you know what that means: a bunch of Christmas songs of varying degrees of quality and appeal! Chris Bosman pegged The Boy Least Likely To as the boys most likely to release a twee-as-fuck Christmas song, which their "Christmas Isn't Christmas" most certainly is. Paul Simon also dropped a Christmas track, which you can check out here.
Best Coast and Wavves -- who were probably too high to realize that last week was collaboration week -- released a Christmas song through Target, a store that probably does not stock Wavves' patented weed grinders (or Wiz Khalifa's hide-your-high shades, for that matter). Indie rock's endearingly bratty power couple also announced that they'd be heading out on tour together early next year. Also touring together: Baths, Braids, and Star Slinger, definitely, and Big Boi and Cee-Lo, maybe.
Here's news: So far this week we haven't heard of any seminal '80s or '90s indie rock bands announcing that they're reuniting, too. Maybe Saturday will bring the news that Kurt Cobain has risen from the dead to reform Bleach-era Nirvana.
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