I got a nice e-mail from The Twigs last week informing me that Laura Good is, in fact, still playing on the East Coast, and that the sisters split the difference of their latitudes and longitudes to play a Twigs show at Uncommon Ground a few weeks ago.

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This is a pretty good overview of cloud-based music services from Paid Content UK. It also shows that Rhapsody does pretty well for a service nobody likes to talk about because they're not new and shiny. Now, if I could just get a stable enough Internet connection in the office to actually use it...

NME is reporting that Interpol have replaced original member Carlos Dengler with former Zwan guitarist Dave Pajo, who will be switching back to bass, and current Secret Machines frontman Brandon Curtis on keys and backing vocals. It must be nice knowing that it takes two people to replace you, but if you've got a bass player that you want who doesn't also play keys or sing, you do what you gotta do.

Despite his background -- and the fact that I've actually seen him live -- I don't have much of an opinion of Pajo. I'm a big Secret Machines fan, though, and I hope this doesn't disrupt that band's plans too much. NME makes no mention of Curtis' main band's immediate future on the heels of the news.

Perhaps a moment of silence after a Blackhawks goal or pouring out an Amstel Light is in order. NME reports that The Fratellis have broken up. Well, we'll always have the best album title of all time, as far as I'm concerned.

Seems like a bad week for the continuing existence of bands, as Voxtrot has also thrown in the towel.