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The Decemberists have released an animated video for "The Rake's Song," a very likable tune from their latest The Hazards of Love.

The new iPhone app Concert Vault allows you to access the huge collection of live performances that are available on line at Wolfgang's Vault. And it's free.

One of our favorite American bands, Spoon, just announced a New Year's Eve show at The Riverside in Milwaukee. The Austin outfit is preparing their sixth studio release, the EP Got Nuffin. The single of the same name has been out for a couple of months and still sounds fresh.

Buy it.

The Flaming Lips first album in three years, Embryonic, comes out tomorrow (Tuesday) and Paste Magazine reports that they will perform for the last time in 2009 in Los Angeles Wednesday night at the Nike/Ricardo Montalban (we kid you not) Theater in Hollywood. Good luck scoring tickets.

TNOP patron saint Bob Dylan keeps finding ways to stay in the news. First, the Christmas album arrives in stores October 13. Now it is reported that a never released song from the 1965 Bringing It All Back Home sessions titled "California" will be released on (again, we kid you not) NCIS: The Official Soundtrack Album - Volume 2 from CBS Records on November 3.

Be sure to check out the video reminiscences of LA Times rock critic Robert Hilburn on Dylan, John Lennon, Bono, Kurt Cobain, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Michael Jackson. It's part of the media push behind his recently published memoir Corn Flakes With John Lennon. Watch for our review of the book in future weeks to come.

Pitchfork embedded the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack yesterday, including the songs from Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver & St. Vincent and Lykke Li. Unfortunately, the audio was quickly taken down. Album release set for October 20 on Chop Shop/Atlantic. Set list:

01 Death Cab for Cutie: "Meet Me on the Equinox"
02 Band of Skulls: "Friends"
03 Thom Yorke: "Hearing Damage"
04 Lykke Li: "Possibility"
05 The Killers: "A White Demon Love Song"
06 Anya Marina: "Satellite Heart"
07 Muse: "I Belong to You (New Moon Remix)"
08 Bon Iver and St. Vincent: "Rosyln"
09 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "Done All Wrong"
10 Hurricane Bells: "Monsters"
11 Sea Wolf: "The Violet Hour"
12 OK Go: "Shooting the Moon"
13 Grizzly Bear: "Slow Life" [ft. Beach House's Victoria Legrand]
14 Editors: "No Sound But the Wind"
15 Alexandre Desplat: "New Moon (The Meadow)"