News has arrived that should bring a smile to the face of any fan of The Smiths and a grimace to those who can’t stand them – Johnny Marr and Morrissey are mending fences.

While some are speculating that the former bandmates will be reuniting onstage at some point in the near future, this is really just a first step. There have been years of acrimony between the two – both public and private, so who knows if this goes anywhere musically?

From November 2007
From the potent minds of poet-actor-MC-professional hyphenate Saul Williams and legendary artist-producer Trent Reznor comes “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust”, a collaborative album unlike anything we’ve seen this year. In a move similar to Radiohead’s recent online release, Williams and Reznor have chosen to use the Internet as a pipeline to deliver the music to the people, eschewing the Major-label Middleman and the hassles he tends to bring to both Artist and Audience. The album is available for $5 U.S. or free, granting listeners …

Virginia’s own Thornton brothers are keeping the streets deluged with hot tracks, adding “Road to Till The Casket Drops” to their mixtape discography. The album’s purpose is twofold – give the fiends a little taste to get them on the come-back when the duo’s next studio LP, “Till The Casket Drops”, arrives in ’09 and to promote their new clothing line, Play Cloths. The album is available for preview/download at its Complex Magazine page.

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