Download The Weeknd’s Thursday!

After months of tense anticipation, Toronto’s The Weeknd (AKA Abel Tesfaye) released his sophomore album, Thursday, to the world with only 4 minutes left in it’s title day. Like it’s much dissertated predecessor, House of Balloons, Thursday is a free download and marks The Weeknd’s first major release since being thrust anonymously into the spotlight by soul brother Drake.

Check it out for yourself here (if link isn’t working, please click on the picture for alternative DL link)

Kurt Vile: A Ragged Rock Star for the Bleakest of Times

Rock Journalist Rob Duffy wonders, “Is Kurt Vile the perfect post-apocalyptic rock star?”

“Mercy Mercy Me” – Julian Casablancas (& The Strokes), Eddie Vedder & Josh Homme (Marvin Gaye cover)

This track, originally a Strokes B-Side, recently made a return to the spotlight as one of the tracks available on the upcoming 3-CD charity album entitled Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol II, (which arrives on July 19). Also featured on this bad boy will be new, unreleased and rare tracks from Modest Mouse, Daniel Johnston, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Bright Eyes, Corin Tucker, Elliott Smith, Joe Purdy, Woodie Guthrie, James Mercer of The Shins and many more.

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Sirius: Face The Music’s Bedouin Soundclash Infographic

Click here for the full Size Bedouin Soundclash Infographic

Hey Kiddies, here’s a reminder to play the Sirius: Face the Music contest, “where one lucky (and skilled) town in Ontario will win an intimate concert with Bedouin Soundclash and Broken Social Scene.” (!!)

I’m still kicking most of your asses with a sweet 315550. Think you can do better? Maybe this chart above will help.

C’mon, you can do it. It’s getting lonely at the top.

Salem, Ikonika and Banjo or Freakout Remix/Reuse/Recycle Interpol’s “Try It On”

Interpol have announced the July 12 North American release of their Try It On remix EP in both digital and vinyl formats (the UK got a taste during this year’s RSD)

Critical frustration and more remixes after the jump

SIRIUS: Face The Music [Contest]

Face The Music gives fans from across Canada the chance to win an intimate concert in their city by playing a “name that tune” style music game. Whichever city ends up with the highest score will host one of these “big-band-in-a-small-venue” shows, while anyone who’s competing has the chance to win a trip to the concert of your choice in the next two weeks, just by getting the highest score in the game.

My top score is 315550. Think you can do better? sure you do! Go on, put me in my place….

More details plus find out which bands could be headlining your city after the jump

FULL Q&A: The Vaccines Call Liam Gallagher ‘A Comedian’

Find out why The Vaccines think Liam Gallagher is a joke, Editors’ Tom Smith is ‘a cock,’ which member enjoys cocaine and which will leave the band to date Kate Moss.

One Day You’ll Be Cool: VOLCANO PLAYGROUND (Plus Exclusive Dave Newfeld Remix)

It only takes about eleven seconds to realize what you’re hearing is unique. Around the second chord in “Waiting,” the tonal shift if you will, the slightly faded nostalgia of the opening hum miraculously turns into the sound of now and the song explodes from there. In a swirl of lush dream-pop that both echoes and expands the growing trend of revamped shoegaze that Volcano Playground has found themselves tided in on, the song quickly expands into a distinct melody that is so emotive that it may as well be sung in Martian tongue.

PLUS check out this EXCLUSIVE remix of Volcano Playground’s “Waiting” by Broken Social Scene producer Dave Newfeld

WAITING (Newfeld RE-Mix)

My Chemical Romance and the Death of Emo

The article began its incendiary report rather matter-of-factly: “A girl of 13 killed herself after becoming obsessed with a fashion which links death with glamour, an inquest heard. Hannah Bond hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an ‘Emo.’”

The date was May 9, 2008 and the British paper the “Daily Mail” was reporting on the sudden suicide of a teenage girl after her parents wouldn’t let her sleep over at a friend’s house. Though her musical tastes were certainly put into question by the coroner, with its next sentence the paper would set off a firestorm of controversy and anger whose ripples can still be felt today: “Emo fans wear dark clothes,” it read. “Practise self-harm and listen to ‘suicide cult’ rock bands.”

The article went on to name only one band in its attack on ‘Emo.’

“One of the foremost of these “suicide cult” bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey,”

Gorillaz “Crystalised” (XX Cover)

Hot on the heals of the news that they’ll be releasing a free album — recorded entirely on an iPad — on Christmas day, Tapedek is proud to announce that the next full Q&A will be with Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn.

Beyond the first mention of said iPad recordings, Albarn talks about Blur, the genesis of the latest Gorillaz album and his new found love of America. Look for it in the week before the album’s release.

In the meantime, enjoy this superior cover of the XX ‘hit’ “Crystalised”