So I’ve gone from having tons of little text doc notes littering my screen all the time, to having tons of little notes jotted into my Google Notebook all the time. Here’s a dump of stuff that’s accumulated there recently:

First of all, news to me, but apparently, the entire world just collectively shits their pants when Daft Punk tours.

Secretly Canadian has joined in the “maybe we can get people to actually pay for this stuff if we give them exclusive download content” movement that’s sprung up of late: Pre-orders for the upcoming Jens Lekman album, out 10/9, will get a download code for “some very exclusive content. [Not] horseshit.”

Pleasant, inoffensive new indiepop abounds: Rogue Wave, who recently parted ways with Sub Pop (no juicy story other than “their contract was up and they wanted to leave”) for Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records have a new album out next month, and Idolator has an mp3. Also, LA stalwarts Earlimart have a new disc, Mentor Tormentor, out next week. Streams on thier Myspace.

Modern-era indie fans #283 thru #9802 are very excited: the LCD Soundsystem/Arcade Fire Tour is spinning off a “limited” split 7-inch, LCD covering Joy Division’s “No Love Lost” b/w AF covering Serge Gainsbourg’s “Poupee de Cire.” I said “Poupee,” snicker.

I wouldn’t want to hazard a guess as to what, exactly, they mean by “limited,” but, since you’re asking, I’d bet it’s almost certainly not less than 5,000. Available *exclusively* at the shows. And at LCDSoundsytem.Com. And at ArcadeFire.Com.

And speaking of DFA, you know they’ve spun off a side label called Death From Abroad, right? I suspect they’ll be releasing international “bangers,” whatever the hell “bangers” may be.

On a similar note, I don’t typically go for that type of stuff, but I’m really digging this “Go Go Go” track by the not-affilated-with-DFA Capitol K.

More Myspace selections:

Puzzle - Words and Actions

Sweetie - Building A Building

We Used To Vacation - To The Country

Desmond Reed - Guinea Pigs (from the new Guinea Pigs EP, out on Weepop, a label after my own heart)

Which also reminds me- another label in that vein: The Offices Of Moore & Moore, an offshoot of the bizarrely interesting / interestingly bizarre Perris-Beauchamp, is a new limited-edition label whose first release is a 100-copy cassette release from Portland’s Clovis Heald.