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Last year, when Courtney Love sold a 25% share of her stake in the Nirvana publishing catalog to music publisher Larry Mestel, a guy who would help her with licensing matters, she told Rolling Stone, "We're going to remain very tasteful, and we're going to [retain] the spirit of Nirvana and take Nirvana places it's never been before."

Well, we sure hope Kurt Cobain was a baseball fan, because Nirvana's "Breed" has turned up on the soundtrack to 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K7 video game, due out February 27.

But the Nirvana song isn't the only interesting thing about the MLB 2K7 music. Following in the footsteps of their Sub Pop-sound tracked hockey game, quality hip-hop-based basketball one and the Matador-friendly MLB 2K6, the 2K folks have assembled a stellar collection of tunes for MLB 2K7, including songs by the Stooges, Pixies, the Specials, Les Savy Fav, the Thermals, Death From Above 1979, the Walkmen, Tapes 'n Tapes, Bishop Allen, and Wolfmother.

There are no plans for a CD release of the soundtrack, but it is streaming online. The list of songs featured in the soundtrack, in alphabetical order by artist name, is below. (Dude, remember Nerf Herder?!)

2K is, however, planning to feature Tapes 'n Tapes as headliners on the upcoming "2K Sports Hit-n-Run Tour", which we previously reported as a regular old Tapes 'n Tapes tour. On the 2K-sponsored dates of the tour, concertgoers can play MLB 2K7 head-to-head and win various prizes.

Playing video games, listening to Tapes 'n Tapes...it'll be just like an average night in your bedroom. But with other people.

Tracks:

311: "Down"
Bishop Allen: "Middle Management"
Cities in Dust: "Emergency"
Death From Above 1979: "Little Girl"
Dixie Witch: "Set the Speed"
Editors: "Munich"
Five Horse Johnson: "I Can't Shake It"
Greatdayforup: "Man's Ruin"
The Jealous Sound: "Naïve"
Les Savy Fav: "Hold on to Your Genre"
The M's: "Plan of the Man"
Nerf Herder: "High Five Anxiety"
Nirvana: "Breed"
The Pixies: "Mr. Grieves"
The Specials: "A Message to You Rudy"
The Stooges: "I Feel Alright"
Sublime: "Summertime"
Tapes 'n Tapes: "Insistor"
The Thermals: "A Passing Feeling"
The Walkmen: "The Rat"
Wolfmother: "Woman"

Tapes 'n Tapes dates:

02-23 St. Paul, MN - Fitzgerald Theater (Current Fakebook) *
02-27 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine (Noise Pop) !
03-10 Mexico City, Mexico - MX Beat at Deportivo
04-16 Columbia, MO - Blue Note #
04-17 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl #
04-18 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge #
04-20 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room #
04-21 Austin, TX- Emo's #
04-22 Houston, TX - Numbers #
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-02 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall #
05-04 Portland, OR - Dante's #$
05-05 Seattle, WA - Neumos #$
05-06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club #$
05-09 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater #$
05-10 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground #$
05-11 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews #$
05-12 Chicago, IL - The Abbey Pub #$
05-14 Ottawa, Ontario - Barrymore's #$
05-15 Montreal, Quebec - Le National #$
05-16 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace #$
05-17 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place #$
05-18 New York, NY - Irving Plaza #$
05-19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club #$
05-22 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop #$
05-23 Columbus, OH - The Basement #$
05-24 Newport, KY - Southgate House #$

* with Chuck Klosterman
! with David Cross, Har Mar Superstar
# 2K Sports Hit-N-Run Tour (all dates with Harlem Shakes)
$ with Ladyhawk