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CERN scores another success with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), setting a record for highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator. - After an initial series of setbacks related to technical glitches, the European Organization for Nuclear Researchs (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator located outside ...

Modest Mouse and vinyl were made for each other. Albums from the Pac-NW rock legends tend to be long and sprawling, and breaking them across a few sides is the way to go. Their 2000 major-label debut, The Moon & Antarctica, which we named the ...

Potentially exciting news from Jack White in the new issue of the UK GQ: he's recorded a song with Jay-Z. "We did a song together a few weeks ago. It was incredible," White told the magazine. "I played him something that I've been kicking ...

The new record from Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Volume Two, isn't officially out until March 23 (April 5 in the UK) but the nice folks at NPR are letting you stream it a bit early right here, right now. And while ...

Photo by Chrissy PiperLast year, Rian Johnson, director of the movies Brick and The Brothers Bloom and the video for the Mountain Goats' "Woke Up New", filmed Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle as he sat ...

Over on Ryan Adams' website, the alt-country vet has a fun little piece of news: "We're going to begin pressing ORION -- my most legit METAL record -- on vinyl next week. Have a listen to the song below and let us at PAXAM [...

You could argue that legendary indie 4AD's roster is as strong as it's ever been, especially with new signings like Gang Gang Dance, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, and tUnE-yArDs on board. And on a forthcoming compilation EP, you'll get to hear early tastes of ...

Beck's Record Club is arguably the best reason to make sure you're regularly checking the man's website. Record Club is a project wherein Beck rounds up a few of his friends, famous and otherwise, and records a cover version of an ...

Record Store Day, your opportunity to cop tons of exclusive music from your local independent retailer, will arrive on April 17 this year. Sub Pop has announced a whole mess of RSD releases. We've already reported that about ...

Falsetto-folk kingpin Justin Vernon of Bon Iver album is staying busy. First off, Bon Iver is teaming up with Peter Gabriel to release a split 7" single on Record Store Day, which is happening April ...

The Cleveland Cavaliers will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record by getting as many fans as possible to wear a Snuggie during their home game against the Detroit Pistons on Friday. The record the Cavaliers are hoping to break is for the “Largest Gathering of People Wearing Fleece ...

In honor of this year's Record Store Day (April 17), Deerhoof are reissuing their 2003 album Apple O' and 2005 EP Green Cosmos on vinyl. Each comes with a download code for the album's contents, plus four bonus tracks. Apple O' is on blue ...

Yongnam Holdings, the structural steel contractor and specialist civil engineering solutions provider, announced a record profit before tax of $48.8 million for its full year ended December 31, 2009 (FY2009) on the back of a marginal 2.7% increase in revenue to $346.8 million. Yongnam says this is the fourth straight ...

Rotary Engineering, the provider of engineering and construction services in the oil & gas and petrochemical industries, posted its highest-ever net profit after tax and minority interest of $54.2 million for its 12 months ended 31 December 2009. It also turned in record revenues of $551.9 million, a 6% ...

India's Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score a double century in one-day internationals yesterday. He achieved the feat in the second one-dayer against South Africa. Tendulkar, who holds the record for most runs and centuries in test and one-day cricket, made 200 ...

Russians may have scoffed at what United States President Barack Obama called "snowmageddon" earlier this month on his country's East Coast, but now Muscovites have been stunned by a snow fall that has broken their own 1966 record. Four days of heavy blizzards dumped 67cm across ...

Like hyper-wordy, classic-rocking clockwork, the Hold Steady's fifth album-- dubbed Heaven Is Whenever-- is due out May 4 via Vagrant (May 3 via Rough Trade in Europe). For this record, the band re-teamed with producer Dean Baltulonis, who manned the boards on 2005's ...

Sembcorp Marine says group attributable profit after tax increased by 63% to $700.1 million for FY2009, the highest ever achieved. Group turnover rose by 13% or $660.8 million to $5,724.7 million with the rig building sector registering an increase of 28% due to progressive recognition of rig building projects....

ARA Asset Management has announced a record net profit of $48.3 million for the full year ended 31 December 2009 (FY2009), a 32% increase from the previous record of $36.7 million achieved in FY2008. ARA Asset Management’s board has proposed a final cash dividend of 2.5 cents per share ...

Just call Apolo Anton Ohno the most decorated sportsman in the history of the Winter Olympics. The speed skater glided into the history books this weekend, winning a record breaking seventh winter games medal after completing the men’s 1000-meter short-track on Saturday. Apolo’s bronze medal win set a new U.S. mark ...