Friday’s Leftovers: More AC Madness

The great Animal Collective leak saga continues with the news that the email from band member Brian “Geologist” Weitz was a hoax. Someone hacked Geologist’s email address and sent off that email. Last night, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound weighed in on the situation on his blog. We’re sure all of these stories on every music blog will do wonders for sales of Merriweather Post Pavillion which drops on January 6.

Here’s one last look at interesting stories from around the webs…

• The RIAA to abandon mass lawsuits against downloaders
• Grace Potter’s Live From Skowhegan comes out next week
• Prince emerges from the studio with a batch of new songs
• Mike Greenhaus and Dean Budnick discuss Phish at the ‘Roo
• Telegraph lists 20 Facts About Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
• Donald Trump talks about his love for Neil Young’s music
• Ireland’s U2 to release No Line On The Horizon on March 2
• A brand new documentary to tell the true story of The Doors

One of our all time favorite blogs, Consequence of Sound, just put out their Year-End report highlighting the best of 2008. We know how hard it is to come up with creative original content day in and day out and we don’t know how Alex and the crew over there do it. Great work, guys.