Twin Shadow’s “Slow” video is a clever parody of porn casting couch sessions, with main man George Lewis Jr. getting complimented on his “big talent” at the end. Directed by Alex Markman.

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Bear In Heaven headlined L.A.’s the Echo, with Twin Sister and Beach Fossils opening. Photographer Andrew Youssef was there to document, and he was impressed. Beach Fossils (with Cloud Nothings’s TJ Duke on guitar) could easily fit in with L.A.’s Abe Vigoda, Best Coast, etc. (they’ve got the right name, too), and Twin Sister played a set that reminded him of a more crystallized Beach House. A female audience member asked Bear In Heaven frontman John Philpot for a mustache ride, which is impressive in a very different way. “This may be one of those shows you brag to all your friends that you saw all three of these bands for $10 back in the day,” Youssef notes. The show was sold out, so it’s probably okay to start bragging now.

>> Lara Stone is taking legal action, alleging that unauthorized photos of her appeared in French Playboy’s June 2010 issue. Stone is suing both the magazine and the photographer, Greg Lotus. ”Playboy had no right to publish these unauthorised photographs,” Stone said. “It’s not the kind of publication I would ever choose to appear in. I feel I have no option but to take steps to protect my reputation.”

The offending photos (NSFW), below.

Adding to the list of groups you didn’t know needed to reunite, the surviving members of the Cars are hinting at a 23-year reunion via a Facebook photo of Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes, David Robinson and Elliot Easton in a Boston studio. (Original bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.) NME also mentions a caption to the photo reading “Anyone in the mood for a reunion by The Cars?,” though I can’t find that caption. Still, judging from the excitement over at that Facebook page, it feels like an announcement’s imminent. (Not to be outdone, Ocasek’s wife, ’80s supermodel Paulina Porizkov, is a 2010 blogger.)

So far we’ve heard Lights and Barricade from Interpol’s upcoming self-titled fourth collection. The guys stay mopey and mid-tempo on “Memory Serves,” which you can hear over at The Hook (Thanks for the tip, Kunal).

Interpol is out in 9/14 via Matador.

Sunday’s scheduled free show, bringing the temporarily reunited emo heroes of Cap’n Jazz to the East River Waterfront in Williamsburg for an inspired bill along with No Age, Lightning Bolt, and the Death Set, went from being a pleasant plan to an amazing race: rain forced the relocation of the event to the lanes of Brooklyn Bowl an hour into the show. The Bowl’s just up the street, but it carries only a 700 person cap; the Williamsburg Waterfront, on the other hand, looks at about 7,000. So, lots of sad faces lining Berry St. in Williamsburg, many planning to see the Cap’n were shut out. (Which is a shame — their set at Brooklyn Bowl was fantastic. They repeated it later in the night at a secret-ish show at Maxwell’s in NJ, but that’s not an easy commute for the Williamsburg freeloaders.)Some consolation: The entire Maxwell’s set can be downloaded atNYCTaper. (Do it.)Lightning Bolt, for their part, were the same rush of blistering drumkit gunfire as they were at Pitchfork, where there adrenaline boost was severely needed. As for No Age, they have a new album out on Sub Pop soon, and I’ll assume they performed from it at their BKLYN Bowl set (I missed it) and again at a secret show at Death By Audio at 1AM that night. Yes, No Age also played a secret show, in a small room, after playing a free show earlier in the day. Brooklyn is a really nice place to spend Sundays. If you like fun things, anyway.

These are coming a day late, but still — check these photos by Chris Person, and these videos by Gary Canino (thanks for the Twitter tip, dude).

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You’ve seen and heard “Old Fangs,” the chunky-guitar-and-laser-guided first single from Black Mountain’s forthcoming third album Wilderness Heart. “The Hair Song” nails a more laid-back, bluesy Southern (B.C.) rock groove that wouldn’t upset the “vibe” at a Black Crowes show.

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