Today In Music News: The Libertines May Reunite, Built To Spill Divulge Album Deets and Miles Davis Gets 8-Bit'ed

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 20, 2009...Pete Doherty is this close to getting The Libertines back together. All that's left is the pesky business of convincing the front man you won't steal his equipment (again) and sell them for drugs and to go along with...

By Lance Lester

August 20, 2009

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Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 20, 2009...

Pete Doherty is this close to getting The Libertines back together. All that's left is the pesky business of convincing the front man you won't steal his equipment (again) and sell them for drugs and to go along with the plans.
Built To Spill spill their guts about their new album and tracklist.
Bizarre jazzbos of the Nintendo generation rejoice: Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is about to hit the internets!

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