Download ‘About A Girl’ at bottom.

Bleach will be reissued shortly.

Learn more about the release here.

MP3: Nirvana - About A Girl

The legendary indie label exclaims: *Due to technical (and a little human) error, the version of “He Doesn’t Know Why” from the brand new, self titled Fleet Foxes album that was available from the iTunes Music Store had two audio drop outs. This has now been fixed and all purchases henceforth will be correct and defect free, as the good lord intended. We apologize profusely for this inconvenience & would like to hereby offer a free MP3 of that song to anyone who would like it. Please accept this & our apologies for the mistake.*

Visit Fleet Foxes on MySpace.

MP3: Fleet Foxes - He Doesn’t Know Why

VH1 honors the day with a fab playlist including:

Mudhoney
Band Of Horses
CSS
The Shins
Tad

Watch all the clips here!

MP3: CSS - Alala

Here are the deets courtesy of a recent MySpace bulletin: *Sub Pop Records in Seattle, WA is offering a grand total of $13,000 worth of college scholarship money to three eligible high school seniors. There are three scholarships - one for $6,000 and two for $3,500 each. To apply for these scholarships you must be a resident of Washington or Oregon, and a graduating senior on your way to full-time enrollment at an accredited university or college. We are looking for an applicant who is involved and/or interested in music and/or the creative arts in some way. To apply for these scholarships we would like you to submit an essay, no longer than one page…* For further information, head here.

MP3: Foals - Balloons

The band shares the news via MySpace:

we
have
signed
to
subpop

in the united states. which is pretty sweet. we’ve been teasing them for ages, and they’ve finally fell for us. it’s your average love story, really. we’re going to be putting out pretty soon. putting out… an album! aha. right. in like april or something. so we can start touring america at length. i’m talking a big bus, some pancakes, some kings of leon on the stereo, a big hat, some sort of item of denim, and the long open road. this will probably be around the same time as we release an album. yeah, great. now back to the miserable fucking m1. xx* Download a Foals MP3 below.

MP3: Foals - Hummer [alt link]

The heroic indie label has the following message to share: *We just finished a pretty massive import of MP3 albums into our store, giving us close to 200 full-length albums in the digital format! In case you haven’t noticed yet, we think this is pretty great. We’ll be working to add singles and EPs and fill the holes in the catalog in the coming weeks and months, and we have every intention of making rare and out-of-print titles available exclusively through our shop.*

Dig into the virtual store here.

Check out a tune from Sub Pop signees, The Postal Service, below.

MP3: The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

“We’re partnering with MTV2, and the focus is going to be Wal-Marts, big box stores, red states, and TV advertising– to really go beyond… We don’t really expect indie rock stores to support this record. It’s for the casual fan.”

Oh my. That quote is from Vice’s Adam Shore regarding a rumored upcoming compilation featuring some indie-rock giants including (but not limited to): Bloc Party, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Silversun Pickups, M. Ward and more. Word is that Vice, Matador, Sub Pop and other indie labels will take part in the series of ‘best-of’-type indie collections, targeted towards the OC compilation-loving folks, that will probably start seeing the light of day this summer. Hmm.

Read the rest of the story and quotes from EW.com over at Pitchfork.

MP3: M. Ward - Magic Trick (via The Muso)