:: You can stream and download some new tracks from Bon Iver here.

:: Fear Before The March Of Flames have shortened their name.

:: More rumors are surfacing about Courtney Love ending Nirvana. Here we thought it was Kurt’s death that did that, but hey! We’ve been wrong before.

:: Mason Proper are holding a remix contest.

:: Alice In Chains reunion? Minus the late Layne Staley of course. There’s a terrible “Man In The Box” joke there somewhere.

:: The vinyl release of the next …and you will know us by the Trail of Dead EP will be a 10-inch picture disc with a Replacements cover song as a bonus track.

:: Elbow has won this year’s Mercury Prize.

It hasn’t even been a year since fans were up in arms over Dr. Marten’s and its use of dead celebrities in a footwear ad campaign, but it looks like we’re going to catch another glimpse of some ad exec’s “great idea”.

Converse is next in line to take a stab at reaping the bad-press-is-good-press wave that I’m sure will come with their new sneaker/dead musician campaign. For they too are planning on using Gen-X posterboy, Kurt Cobain to hock their footwear.

Hey Converse! If you haven’t written your public apology yet, you can always refer to Dr. Marten’s as a guide.

Ladies and gentlemen, the next attempt to milk the Cobain cow… (more…)

Boot maker DR MARTENS are starting a new “forever” based ad campaign. They are further driving the point home by using dead rockers to illustrate things.

Saatchi & Saatchi/London has a new print/poster campaign in the U.K. that cleverly employs four dead rock stars – Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer – as Doc Martens endorsers. “We wanted to communicate that Dr. Martens boots are ‘made to last,’ ” explains writer Andrew Petch, “and we discovered that these idolized musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatized the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic.” As for the legal implications of enlisting the support of this particular fab four from beyond the grave, Petch says the images have been cleared for use in the U.K. only, in an arrangement with Corbis, supplier of the original photographs, which have been enhanced by photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet.

Joe, Kurt, and Sid ads can be seen after the jump. (more…)

BEN GIBBARD (Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service) has been on a tear during this solo tour of his. First he’s been performing some new material and last night in Somerville, MA he performed a cover of the Nirvana song “All Apologies”. You can watch video footage of the performance here.

CNN has a story today about how Courtney Love will be selling all of Kurt Cobain’s stuff via an auction with Christie’s. You can read about it here.