Guess what y’all? British tabloid the NME successfully turned an off-handed Jay-Z comment on Noel Gallagher into a headline. Sort of reminds me of that time Lindsay Lohan didn’t wear any undies, but even less eventful. Either way, you may remember a year or so ago when the fiesty Gallagher got his panties in a twist over Jay-Z, a so called rap star, headlining Britain’s annual Rain and Mud fest, ahum, the Glastonbury Music Festival. Gallagher, who is the dude from Oasis that’s really into the Beatles, was quoted as saying “I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” Of course this means nothing to S Dot Carter, who, cool and calm as ever (Dude’s been listening to too much Grizzly Bear), shrugged off Gallagher’s playa hating with a simple, “I don’t have any problem, so I said anything is possible.” So there you have it folks, breaking news from the NME, Jay-Z doesn’t have a problem with Noel Gallagher, which isn’t a surprise, because, despite Black Album hit “99 Problems,” were pretty sure Jay-Z’s only problem is deciding which whip to cruise around in, the Maybach or the Bentley.

Twi-hards, rejoice: the soundtrack for the latest film in the Twilight series, New Moon, will be released this Friday, as “overwhelming and unprecedented demand” prompted the release date to be pushed up by four days. The album will be hitting stores more than a month before the film is released on November 20, so the Twilight faithful can comfort themselves with the musical musings of Death Cab for Cutie, Thom Yorke, Muse, the Killers, OK Go, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Sea Wolf, and the Editors, among others, until their cinematic dreams become reality.

MTV has the full scoop on the most recent Twilight developments, of course, and is featuring an interview with OK Go and Lykke Li about their involvement with the soundtrack; check them out here and here. Stream the video for Death Cab for Cutie’s contribution to the soundtrack, titled “Meet Me on the Equinox,” here.

So the obvious question here: Will there be Jay-Z party pics? Chris Taylor and B doing the “Single Ladies” dance on a Williamsburg rooftop? Memphis Bleek doing freestyles over Chris Bear’s glockenspiel beats? We have so many questions.

Regardless, we’ll have to wait until November 2nd (on iTunes and in Europe, physical release date presumably still to come here in the ole’ U.S. of A) to find out when they release the deluxe edition to their monumentally huge (you know, in experimental indie terms) third full length. And why not? A band like this riding a buzz like this certainly doesn’t come every year, much less every day. There’s no “new tracks” per se, but there are a lot of unreleased studio sessions of the preexisting tracks. See for yourself below.

Veckatimest Special Edition tracklisting

CD1:

01 Southern Point
02 Two Weeks
03 All We Ask
04 Fine for Now
05 Cheerleader
06 Dory
07 Ready, Able
08 About Face
09 Hold Still
10 While You Wait for the Others
11 I Live With You
12 Foreground

CD2:

01 Southern Point (KCRW Session)
02 All We Ask (KCMP Session)
03 Ready, Able (KCRW Session)
04 Foreground (Duyster Session)
05 Two Weeks (BBC Maida Vale Session)
06 Dory (World Café Session)
07 While You Wait for the Others (BBC Maida Vale Session)

(Via: P4K)

We’re not going to lie. We’ve never actually seen the MTVU Woodie Awards. But then again, we don’t live in a dorm, so it sort of makes sense. We do remember the channel incessantly playing My Morning Jacket and E-40 back in the day, so they’re OK by us. And it seems logical enough MTV’s college version would get its own little baby VMAs. MTV just announced the nominations, and it seems Asher Roth is finally being rewarded for recording a generic (edit: offensive) song replicating the college experience. About damn time. But more in our lane, Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective have been nominated for a Breaking Woodie and a Performing Woodie respectively. Matt & Kim are up for a Best Video Woodie. And Jay Reatard (along with the likes of Major Lazer, Janelle Monae & Tech N9ne) are up for a Left Field Woodie, which we have yet to Wikipedia but would seem the only qualification might involve being inherently bizarre and happening to make incredible music. So we’re for it. Put those four in a room and film it and we’ll watch it over whatever replaced TRL any day. Done and done. The show takes place December 4th. Hopefully Matt (or Kim) will storm the stage (naked?) and grab the mic from Wale or someone in a fit of Brooklyn pride and demand a recount for Grizzly Bear. Full nominations here. (Via: MTV)

While exciting, knowing that your album is the second ever release from a record label might not instill complete ease to the nerves of a young band. But knowing you’re album is the second release from the label just started by the dude from Grizzly Bear, this Brooklyn quintet might be sleeping a bit better at night.

Acrylics All of the Fire EP will be out October 28th on Chris Taylor and Ethan Silverman’s Terrible Records, but will also be available for purchase at their CMJ shows. Details of both listed below.

All of the Fire Tracklisting
1. Lil Ivy
2. All of the Fire
3. Avenue I
4. Conselyea
5. Honest Aims

Acrylics’ Upcoming Shows

10.03 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge w/ Besnard Lakes
10.23 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (Cantora Records Showcase)
10.23 New York, NY @ Pianos (Terrible Records Showcase)
10.24 New York, NY @Bowery Electric (Blue Flowers Day Party)

PS: remember this? Yeah, we dig them.