Ryan Schreiber reports:
The official website of the Icelandic electronic quartet Múm has announced that one of the band's founding members, Gyða Valtýsdóttir, officially left the band after a final performance last week in London due to time constraints. Valtýsdóttir revealed in a statement on the band's site that she has recently begun her second year at the Academy of the Arts in Iceland where she's presently studying cello, and that she has become unable to divide her time between the band and her schoolwork. "My friends in Múm have been extremely patient and they have offered to wait for me while I was at school," Valtýsdóttir says. "This would mean that Múm would have to say 'no' to many good offers. Still I'm just getting busier and since the others have devoted themselves to the band I think now is the right time to leave."

Múm's final radio appearance with Valtýsdóttir in tow will air this Thursday on BBC Radio 1's Peel Sessions. The band also recently appeared alongside members of Sigur Rós and other Icelandic musicians on a Kitchen Motors compilation titled Nart Nibbles, with a score they performed for Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin at the Icelandic Film Museum earlier this year.

.: Pitchfork Review: Múm: Finally We Are No One
.: Kitchen Motors: http://www.kitchenmotors.com
.: Múmweb: http://www.noisedfisk.com/mumweb

Will Bryant reports:
The band that always accentuates the positive, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, are releasing a three-track EP November 5th on Touch and Go. But don't start high-fiving the milkman just yet, 'cuz the single really only offers one new song ("Machine," described by Touch and Go as "an edgy, chugging, dance floor burner") along with a "raucous, swaggering" demo track and a remix of live staple "Pin." In addition to the ever-popular compact disc format, you'll also be able to score the "Machine" EP on ten inches of decadent pink vinyl. Tracklist:

01 Machine
02 Graveyard [demo]
03 Pin [remix]

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have stuffed as many aces as they could bogart up their sleeves in anticipation of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' full-length debut, not coincidentally due early next year. In the meantime, you can still catch the triple-Y's on tour with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the Liars through October 5th (dates in our previous story). In mid-October they'll plow through five dates supporting Sleater-Kinney before hooking back up with the Liars for another five shows as co-headliners, without those old farts from JSBX leching on all the groupies. Then it's back to New York for Touch and Go's CMJ showcase with label stars Enon and Blonde Redhead. Tour dates:

10-14 Boston, MA - Roxy *
10-15 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
10-16 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
10-19 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero *
10-20 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
10-23 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop +
10-24 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick +
10-25 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle +
10-26 Chicago, IL - Fireside Bowl +
10-27 Newport, KY - Southgate House +
10-28 Pittsburgh, PA - Laga +
10-31 New York, NY - Irving Plaza (Touch and Go CMJ Showcase)

* with Sleater-Kinney
+ with Liars

.: Pitchfork Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP
.: Pitchfork News: Jon Spencer Touring with Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
.: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com

Alan Haworth reports:
In a miracle of turnaround only a paragon of technology and efficiency such as Pitchfork could produce, Jagjaguwar Records are reissuing Oneida's ultra-limited 2002 release Each One Teach One this very day, October 1st, for the first time on CD. The reissue of what Jagjaguwar calls "the first truly heavy psychedelic rock record of the new millennium" (what, that J-Lo remix album doesn't count?) was originally only available in an edition of 500 vinyl copies by handscreen fetishists Version City. Now you can enjoy Oneida's psychedelic sounds and tripped-out hallucinogenic fantasies without the annoying chore of getting up off the floor to flip the record three times. Or wait-- for a triple album, it's six times, right? Five? Boy, am I baked!

Each One Teach One finds Oneida in a much more blissed-out rock phase than last year's Anthem of the Moon, and as such Jagjaguwar actually recommend the following listening procedure: "Put the first CD on and lie down on your floor with your eyes closed. Have a friend around to put in the second disc when it is time and to guide you on the trip it'll takeyou on. Headphones or loudspeakers recommended for playback." So great, not only do you have to have a freakin' pair of headphones to give this shizznit a spin, you've got to have a friend? What is this, Zaireeka all over again?

In other Oneida haps, Brooklyn's finest are assembling a five-song split EP with the Liars, tentatively titled Atheists Reconsider. An early press release from Arena Rock Recording Co. characterizes the sound of this collection as "ear-splitting, acid-dropping, sweatbox show tunes." Oneida play live occasionally through the northeastern U.S., this month including stops in New York City for the big CMJ festival and a one-off trip to Chicago. Tour dates:

10-09 Brooklyn, NY - North Six
10-13 Brooklyn, NY - North Six (w/ Ted Leo & the Pharmacists)
10-17 New York, NY - Knitting Factory (w/ Acid Mothers Temple)
11-01 New York, NY - The Luxx (CMJ Festival)
11-09 Hamilton, Ontario - The Underground
11-10 Toronto, Ontario - Wavelength at Sneaky D's
11-12 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle

.: Pitchfork News: Oneida: Anthem of the Moon
.: Oneida: http://www.enemyhogs.com
.: Jagjaguwar: http://www.jagjaguwar.com
.: Arena Rock: http://www.arenarockrecordingco.com

William Cameron reports:
New York duo Parker and Lily have upped the ante in the race to achieve the ultimate vintage organ sound with their second LP, Here Comes Winter’ out this month on Manifesto. The follow-up to the pair's critically acclaimed yet criminally ignored 2001 effort Hello Halo sees the band exploring haunting atmospherics with hallucinogenic flourishes of electronics. Currently on tour with Future Bible Heroes, the band has recently added new member Christina Campanella who will take over organ duties. Parker and Lily (and Campanella) will be touring the U.S., Japan, and Europe through early 2003 in support of the new album. Tracklist:

01 Hello Halo
02 My Apartment Complex
03 Idle In Idlewild
04 You Are My Matinee
05 Violet In Violet
06 Bridge And Tunnel
07 Motel Lights
08 In Bonn
09 Planes In Clouds
10 Snow Day
11 Interior: Airport
12 Three-Day Life
13 Separate Rooms
14 For C.I. (Iowa Is Passing By)
15 Hey Sau Jin

Parker and Lily also contribute the cut "My Apartment Complex" to the upcoming Japanese pop-pilation Chocolat Art Returns, Vol.2. If you skipped volume one in this series you missed out on confections from the likes of Her Space Holiday and Orange Cake Mix.

.: Parker and Lily: http://www.parkerandlily.com