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-- Wilco have joined the list of bands showing love to indie retailers on Record Store Day. On April 18, indie record stores will start selling copies of Ashes of American Flags, Wilco's DVD document of their winter 2008 tour. The rest of the world gets it two weeks later. Frontman Jeff Tweedy tells Billboard all about it here.

-- The by:Larm festival will take over a whole pile of Oslo, Norway music venues on February 19-21. This year's roster includes Lindstrøm, Annie, Fennesz, the Whitest Boy Alive, Frida Hyvönen, Hanne Hukkelberg, and an insane number of Scandinavian acts that you've never heard of.

--On February 17, Drag City will issue ...For the Whole World to See, the never-heard album from the Detroit proto-punk band Death, whose story reads sort of like the Bad Brains story except a few years earlier and without the whole inventing hardcore thing.
 
-- The uber-cool German electronic label Kompakt will release Pop Ambient 2009, the latest in its annual compilation series, on February 16. This year, the album includes joints from Tim Hecker, Burger/Voigt, and Jürgen Paape.