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Seeing double? Don t be alarmed. Canada s favorite tune-carrying twins, , are set to follow in the footsteps of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Nah, no eating disorders or public breakups. Rather, T S are headed down the road towards media mogul-dom, with the release of their DVD, It s Not Fun, Don t Do It! courtesy of Vapor/Sanctuary Records tomorrow, August 8.

In addition to a full live concert from a performance at Toronto, Ontario s Phoenix Concert Theatre, documentary, music videos for Walking With a Ghost , Speak Slow , I Hear Noises , Living Room , and Monday, Monday, Monday , a photo album, and band Unlike most bands, Tegan and Sara are actually funny. So the commentary will actually be worth listening to.
Just when we were starting to forget about the (ha!

), has stealthily leaked their new video to YouTube. The Leave Before the Lights Come On clip is typically bleak Monkeys fare, only with more than a hint of black humor. It starts with a man saving a woman from suicide.

..and goes downhill from there.

The Leave Before the Lights Come On single is out August 14 on Domino on 7 and CD. If you re on the Arctic Monkeys mailing list, you can get a free Arctic Monkeys beer mat with purchase. Because nothing goes better with suicide than beer!

In the game of black dots on white tiles, is on top. The singer/songwriter responsible for last year s PREfection (on ) has signed a worldwide deal with . McCombs has written and recorded his Domino debut, scheduled to hit record stores in early 2007, but has not yet titled it.

As previously reported, McCombs will support Andrew Bird on his upcoming fall trek.
At last, enigmatic Swedish sibling duo have announced their first-ever American shows. There s only three of them: one in New York, one in San Francisco, and one in L.

A. But the New York date is during CMJ, so that helps a little bit, right? As if the prospect of seeing Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson playing Heartbeats or Still Light live wasn t tantalizing enough, the Knife s performances happen to be multi-media collaborations with artist Andreas Nilsson.

As Olof recently told our own Mark Pytlik, For the live show, [Nilsson] s been working with it for many, many months, and he involved some other artists to build dolls and do very advanced drawings-- he s just spacing out...

The show is 50% his show and 50% our music. This is going to RULE.
The original version of s (the latest single from their new album, Eyes Open), is plenty beautiful, but there isn t really anything to distinguish it from heaps of other pretty, soaring love songs.

This remix, courtesy of a mysterious entity called , turns the track into something else. It s even more beautiful, but it s also kinda fucked up. It begins with fluttery beats and a wisp of ambient background noise, swells on a pulsing undercurrent, and then, around the three-minute mark, starts to break down.

Little jagged shards cut in and out, attacking the song with computer-game-rebooting noises and stop-start stutters. It all gets more and more confusing until it just stops, falling away to reveal a curtain of strings. Expertly crafted and extremely satisfying, this is up there with R o yksopp s take on Coldplay s Clocks in the sad-sack remix Hall of Fame.

I don t know who the Hey Team are (related to the Go! Team?), but I m looking forward to hearing more from them.

Following in the illustrious footsteps of such alt-rock guitarists as James Iha, John Frusciante, and that dude from Korn who found Jesus, Albert Hammond Jr. is heading out on his own. No, he isn t leaving the band (as far as we know), but according to NME.

com, he s putting out a solo album. Entitled Yours to Keep and due out in the UK on October 9 on , the disc features bassist Josh Lattanzi (Ben Kweller) and drummer Matt Romano (Adam Green) serving as Hammond s backing band as well as guest spots from Kweller, Sean Lennon, Strokes manager Ryan Gentles, Fountains of Wayne s Jody Porter, Mikki James of Thin Lizard Dawn and Sammy James Jr. of the Mooney Suzuki.

Greg Lattimer of Thin Lizard Dawn produced the album. Hammond s fro allegedly plays cowbell on several songs.

For once in our lives, we actually wish we were in Baltimore for one night With all due respect to the (almost) late, great Sleater-Kinney, we must report that Carrie, Corin, and Janet have been bested by .

The mighty ladies may have been , but Mr. Leo sure is. Wednesday night at Baltimore s Ottobar, the power went out 3/4 of the way through Leo s set, according to several Pitchfork reader reports.

Reader Ira Gamerman wrote in to say that as soon as the lights went out, Leo led the crowd in singing Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson, Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Don t Stop Believin by Journey. Then he grabbed an acoustic guitar [and] played 2 songs by flashlight. Another reader, Jeffrey Jutton, says one of those songs was a Lungfish cover, and that after it was over, Leo promptly fell off the stage.

I ve never seen anything like it at a show before. He literally fell off the stage, there was a huge crash, the crowd gasped because there were no lights on or anything, and then you heard the acoustic guitar strumming again. Incredible.

.. At that point, everyone was asked to leave the club, so Ted took to the streets and gave an impromptu concert out in front of the Ottobar for his fans.

Ted Leo is no stranger to hurting himself during a performance; on Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival, he smacked himself in the forehead with a microphone so hard that he bled. (See John Lombardo s photo at the top of this story.) He s also no stranger to playing through power outages.

In 2003, during the infamous New York City blackout, he entertained concertgoers at NYC s South Street Seaport with a full set. His performance of Stove by a Whale from that day ended up on the Ted Leo/Pharmacists DVD Dirty Old Town. Leo will return to the South Street Seaport on August 25, as part of a string of shows scheduled throughout the next two months.

New ! Just kidding--but it sure sounds like it. Nothing about this track from the Canindie supergroup of Spencer Krug ( /Sunset Rubdown), Dan Bejar ( / ) and Carey Mercer ( ) sonically separates it from Krug s solo project.

It isn t clear what Bejar s or Mercer s contribution to the song was, but no matter--this would be a standout even on Sunset Rubdown s fantastic latest album Shut Up I Am Dreaming. All Fires comes from s debut album, Beast Moans, due out November 21 on .
Now that she s up and running, there s no stopping .

The once-shy performer has seemingly found her groove with her latest backing group, the Memphis Rhythm Band, as Chan Marshall has added several shows to her fall tour itinerary. After hitting some European fests and Austin City Limits, Marshall will join the stellar lineup of Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ryan Adams, Rosanne Cash, Bob Mould, and many more, at the benefit concert The Music of Bob Dylan at NYC s Avery Fisher Hall on November 9. Naturally, they ll all be playing Dylan songs.

In other news, an exclusive Cat Power iTunes session will be available September 5.
Pitchfork s very own Matt LeMay), have something very special in store. Matt tells us that Jason Caddell, formerly the guitarist in the Dismemberment Plan, is co-producing the currently untitled album.

Jason at Inner Ear in DC...

and some this week with Charles Bissell from the Wrens, LeMay said in an email. if GHEH hadn t already fulfilled their indie rock star quota, Zach Condon of Beirut also came over last week and played some trumpet, in addition to his bandmates Kristin and Jon, [who] played some violin and baritone sax addition to being nameless at the moment, the album also has no release date, though the band is beginning a huge tour of the U.S.

tonight in Ohio. They ll start out by of tours, Get Him Eat Him have just finished a tour EP featuring three new tracks and a Sebadoh cover. Each EP is handmade by the band (but watch out for grease-- we hear they like sandwi.

..er, sammiches), and they have only made about 125 copies.

It will be available while it lasts on the tour, but even if you can t attend one of the shows, you can still get it from .
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