For those in the UK,  Meridian Audio offers a new sleek profile music system which fits perfectly into your home. “Designed and hand-assembled in Meridian’s Cambridgeshire-based production facility, the M80 offers an unrivalled listening experience, and further develops the elegant design features and state-of-the-art engineering which made its predecessor, the acclaimed F80, one of the company’s best selling models.” For the techs, this translate into an 80watt 2-channel device which supports CD/DVD playback as well as the usual AM/FM/DAB.

Another look at the Meridian Audio M80 Compact Entertainment System after the click.

“Church With no Magic album coming soon on Warp Records. PVT were formerly Pivot. pvtpvt.net. Directed by Clemens Habicht” #recommended

“This video was made as a response to the G20 Summit in Toronto June, 2010.  The rest speaks for itself. It was sent to us by a lover of our music who wants to remain anonymous.  We are very proud to share this mash-up with you…”

“Zimoun’s sound sculptures and installations are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic».”

“Music video for ‘Wanderland’ by Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe.Directed by Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys. Design: Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys. Art Direction: Kristof Luyckx Editing: Stijn Deconinck & Kristof Luyckx. Animation: Michèle Vanparys, Michélé De Feudis, Dries Bastiaensen & Kristof Luyckx.”

From the Klaxons’ forthcoming second album. (The Quietus)

Opening today, The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland is about as good a rock n’ roll history exhibit differs a little from the Grateful Dead display we highlighted earlier in the week. For example, it has a direct correlation with the host institution – the Minnesota Historical Society.

The story behind the show -

In August, 1965, a 17-year-old local photographer documented the Beatles’ only appearance in Minnesota. Bill Carlson’s images are the focus of this new exhibit, including photos of the band’s arrival at Wold Chamberlain Field, the mobs of girls waiting to greet them, their press conference and performance at Met Stadium. This is the first major exhibit of the images, some of which have never been published. Many of the images are taken from Carlson’s book of the same name.

The photographs will be on view through September 12, 2010. Even without having seen it, an assumption can easily be made that A One-Night Stand In the Heartland is superior to other rock photography exhibitions that have been mounted in the last year. Why? Because there is a distinct theme.

Rockabilly anyone?

For those living or visiting NYC this weekend, you may want to trot over to the LES for the first NYC show by Los Angeles’ Wild Records recording artists Omar & The Stringpoppers. For those into the rockabilly sound, it is sure to be a big deal. “The band have developed into the US’s number one rockabilly band playing extensively throughout California and Europe. Omar [Romero] onstage is like watching a tornado unleash. If you find this a bold statement, when you catch his live show, you will not be disappointed. Over the last two years, Omar and the Stringpoppers have played in Spain, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, UK, and they were one of the healdliners at Viva Las Vegas 2003 [and 2005]” (photo)

Check them on Sunday, July 18th at Manhattan’s Lower East Side Self Edge New York shop.

In complete contrast to the Brooklyn Dodgers exhibition posted earlier today, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, has very little to do with institutional mission or innovative programming. However, despite my up turned nose, the show is full of superb objects and worth noting on that ground.

About the exhibition -

Tracing the career and achievements of a band that became one of the most significant cultural forces in 20th century America, the New-York Historical Society presents The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society. The exhibition, on view from March 5 to September 5, 2010, represents the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive, housed at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Running to September 5, 2010 at the New York Historical Society.

A sampling of included objects after the jump.

From the Beck “Record Club” project bringing musicians together to re-imagine popular music. They’re on a Yanni kick at the moment.