Remember that Greatest Hits package the Foo Fighters' are releasing November 3 to hold fans over while Dave Grohl tours with his new supergroup, Them Crooked Vultures?

Newlywed Death Cab for Cutie leader Ben Gibbard and Son Volt singer Jay Farrar have interpreted Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur for their new album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone.

Joining a line that stretches back to Simon & Garfunkel's contributions to The Graduate and runs through Karen O's soundtrack for the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are, Sam Means of currently-on-hiatus Phoenix-based pop-rockers the Format will release his soundtrack to last year's indie comedy The Sinking of Santa Isabel on September 29.

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has leaked "11th Dimension," the first full recording to be released from his solo album Phrazes for the Young, out Oct. 20.

Ah, Pearl Jam are just a bunch of rock'n'roll Santa Clauses disguised in tattered jeans and flannel shirts. First they dropped a pair of new tunes on us, and now, just a few days before the Sept.