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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian/Music

Fresh links: ideal with a round of toast and an egg

The Avalanches are finally on the way back and, if you're prepared to reveal your most intimate details to the man (or at least his younger brother) you can get a new mix which may well contain some tracks from the album that's been seven years in the making.

Rufus has got a mard on.

Turns out the next LCD Soundsystem single - All My Friends - will feature not one but two celebrity covers of itself. The first, John Cale's, has already been trailed in these parts. The second, a rather majestic version by Franz Ferdinand, is on the LCD MySpace now.

is this really the best indie anthem of all time?

In this here new video, the message appears to be that, if you want to save your ghetto block party from commercialization, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are the go-to guys. Which is not quite the message you might have anticipated (this video comes with added Chris Rock bookends).

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