I Read The News Today... For Aug. 27, 2010

Everybody Dance Now: Songs From Hamilton Volume 5, a compilation featuring some songs by Hamilton, Ont. artists like Young Rival, Caribou, Arkells, Junior Boys and others, will be released in late September to coincide with the C+C Music Festival at this year's Hamilton Supercrawl. —Facebook

The Meligrove Band will release a new album, Shimmering Lights, on Sept. 21. They've got a special limited-edition seven-inch single of "Halflight," backed with a cover of DD/MM/YYYY's "Super VGF" out now digitally. It's in stores Sept. 7. —Killbeat

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy says the band might end up making another record after all. He's not quite yet at the level of Lily Allen-esque "I'm retiring... wait, no I'm not" ridiculousness, but he's getting there. —The Quietus

Matt & Kim's new album, Sidewalks, is out Nov. 2. They'll precede it with a single dubbed "Cameras," which is out Tuesday. —Pitchfork

Ray Davies is working on an album of covers of classic Kinks songs. Billy Corgan, Spoon, Frank Black and Mumford & Sons are also going to be involved. The disc doesn't have a title yet, but should be out sometime this year. —TwentyFourBit

Whoopsie! Scott Weiland fell off stage on Wednesday in Cincinnati:



System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian is coming to North America to tour in support of his upcoming Imperfect Harmonies sophomore album in September and October. —MySpace

Mos Def is being sued by REMG Entertainment for at least $57,500. They claim he backed out 24 hours before a show scheduled to go down at Toronto's Kool Haus in February. REMG say the rapper took a $12,500 deposit to do the show and then didn't return it after backing out. —TMZ

The Acorn will spend the fall on tour with Basia Bulat, giving Americans a good taste of Canadian indie as the leaves fall off the trees. —MySpace

Frances Bean Cobain has reportedly moved in with Marianne Faithfull, which is kind of ironic because Courtney Love once had a massive drug problem and Faithfull was notorious for her own drug problems — which she eventually kicked — throughout the '60s and '70s. Is this some kind of passive-aggressive, "Why can't my mommy be more like this woman?" thing? —The Sun