January 14, 2013 – How definite is the indefinite? Not very. Despite having declared a permanent hiatus following their November 8, 2011 show in Rio de Janeiro, the Canuck musical Justice League that is Broken Social Scene is reuniting for a summer fest celebrating the tenth anniversary of their record label, Arts & Crafts. The Field Trip Music & Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, June 8 at Fort York and Garrison Common in Toronto, and will also feature performances from Feist, Bloc Party, Ra Ra Riot, Cold Specks, Jason Collett, Timber Timbre, Zeus, and others culled from the Canadian imprint's indie-illustrious past."Field Trip was built around the themes of discovery and community," said Jeffrey Remedios, who co-founded A&C with BSS main men Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning.

January 14, 2013 – Buzzcocks might not be a Matmos fan's first, or even tenth, guess as to who the iconoclastic electronic duo count as influences, but there is something decidedly punk about M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel's often noisy, very DIY approach to their craft. And anyone who's seen the group perform in person can attest that the two men at the heart of this project, who are also a couple, have something of a creative mind-meld.So perhaps then it makes perfect sense that they executed an eight-minute cover of "ESP" by the aforementioned British punk giants at the Thrill Jockey Records 20th anniversary show last year in Baltimore.

January 14, 2013 – This just in (get it?): Justin Timberlake has not only released a new Timbaland-produced single, "Suit & Tie" featuring Jay-Z, but announced his forthcoming album, The 20/20 Experience, due later this year on RCA Records. On Thursday, Justin Timberlake kinda-sorta surprised the world by sorta-kinda announcing that his nearly seven-year hiatus from releasing music was coming to an end.

January 12, 2013 – In yesterday's post about a very ambitious Kickstarter user, the '90s-nostalgizing Daniel Nadolny surmised, "I'm not sure what happened to [the Spin Doctors], really. I would imagine they had a couple of records and some minor festival success." Well, it turns out those boho-hipster funk-pop progenitors are not only still around, but they're indeed set to play a festival ... on a boat. Both shockingly and strangely not, Sugar Ray frontman and television personality Mark McGrath is captaining his very own cruise ship concert, the creatively named Mark McGrath & Friends Cruise.If you thought taking wine-tasting lessons from James Murphy on an ocean liner was odd, well, strap on your life vest! The S.S.

January 11, 2013 – Long before Frank Ocean changed the game with a song called "Bad Religion," there was (and is) Bad Religion, the original "oozin' aahs-in'" melodic punk band who gave us the strongly prophetic "21st Century (Digital Boy)" all the way back in 1990. The 34-year-old Los Angeles band has taken to dropping a new album ever three years for the past decade — a little unpunk of them, but these guys have earned the right to slow their roll ever so slightly, especially considering guitarist Brett Gurewitz owns and runs the Epitaph Records label group.Bad Religion's latest is True North, due out January 22, and so far it's yielded a couple of strong showings: the titular ripper and a satisfying little kiss-off called "Fuck You" (both are streamable below). Now the punkers' hometown hub for rock on the radio, KROQ, has debuted a third song called "Dept.

January 11, 2013 – On Tuesday, January 8, David Bowie's 66th birthday, the rock icon shocked everyone except for his inner circle by releasing a brand new song, his first in a decade, "Where Are We Now?" With that "a trademark tender, late-era Bowie ballad" came the news that an album is on the way as well, The Next Day, due in March. In the ensuing press froth, we learned from producer Tony Visconti that we should expect a mix of "classic" Thin White Duke and "innovative" Ziggy Stardust, and also that Bowie would never perform live again, and then that the thing about Bowie never perfoming live again wasn't actually true:I never said Bowie would never perform live again. Pitchfork made that up.

January 11, 2013 – Yesterday, we learned that the rumors about a Destiny's Child reunion were in fact truth, as Beyoncé announced the impending release of "Nuclear." The bonus addition to the forthcoming Love Songs retrospective set is the '90s R&B girl-group's first new song in eight years and, as it turns out, may be performed by DC at Super Bowl XLVII, whose field Beyoncé will be doubtlessly carpet-bombing with gold glitter as the halftime show's main act.Well, the developments continue to pour in. Mashable now has the exclusive stream of "Nuclear," an upbeat Pharrell Williams-produced single written by Michelle Williams with help from James Fauntleroy (Brandy, Chris Brown, Rihanna) and Flipmode Squad member Lonny Bereal.

January 11, 2013 – After all of the drama caused by Kickstarter campaigns last year — re: Amanda Palmer, and Animal Collective's Deakin — it's nice to see someone using the crowd-sourcing service for what its makers intended: as an avenue for unknown entities to make their dreams hilarious jokes come true. Atlanta resident Daniel Nadolny is attempting to raise $5 million in a month so that he can write and film a Spin Doctors biopic that stars bumbling Home Alone villain Daniel Stern as singer Chris Barron, because they look similar."Spin Doctors were a popular pop-funk band from New York City in the '90s," says Nadolny, who described himself as "a man of many talents and desires," in his pitch video (below). "I'm not sure what happened to them really. I would imagine they had a couple of records and some minor festival success. But they were a challenging band.

January 11, 2013 – Ryan Adams has had a very public love affair with metal over the past few years. He's hosted a mock cable access shred-head show called "Night Sweats," attended Ronnie James Dio's funeral along with SPIN, and has even recorded his own blackly dirging axe-blasts as Werewolph. But when it comes to putting his spin on "Wasted Years," the fist-pumping 1986 now-ness anthem by Iron Maiden (which is, like, 70 percent guitar solo), Adams isn't beholden to tradition or nostalgia, or even the sort of ballsy awesomeness the track's originators were known for. Performing the song for the forthcoming Californication season six soundtrack, he takes a much more mellow approach.

January 11, 2013 – If you've got an hour to spare, Los Angeles' Local Natives will make it worth your time. The tropically tinged folk-pop posse recently recorded an intimate 60-minute concert (and interview) for L.A.