big catch up

Back from a trip. Here is a pile of links.

Pitchfork Festival reviews: Rolling Stone , Livedaily Village Voice
, Austin Chronicle,Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Photos on Flickr

Here's an interview with JD from the Mountain Goats

Here's a documentary on Mission of Burma

Fluxblog has an MP3 of the Jeff Lewis song that I like

Drag City has a new Pajo mp3
Here's a review of the Fiery Matt solo album, and here's another one with a few other recent albums
and here's a new Matt F mp3 along with a previously mentioned one at his updated label page

Matador has a blog; here it points to a new record store in Brooklyn. Here's the most recent Matador News, infotaining as usual.

eMusic has a bunch of the Sundazed catalog now. And the new Heartless Bastards album, a little early.

There's a reissue of the Exploding Hearts catalog. So sad that they're gone...

Here's an online covers album of Belle and Sebastian songs, free to download.

"This article begins a new feature that will examine how to attend performances and other cultural events in and around New York City as economically as possible."
The NY Times attempts to see Jones Beach concerts cheaply

Look at the new Get Him Eat Him tour EP...gimmicky packaging, I ordered mine.

Here's a review of the maybe last Sleater-Kinney show in New York

DC Comics stamps There are some pretty obscure ones...neat

Heath Ledger might be the Joker

Mysteries of Pittsburgh film development stuff is happening.

New Wes Anderson movie titled Djarling Limited supposedly starting production soon

Law and Order can't keep any actresses for long

Kind of neat: from Kathryn Yu: Susan Kare, a pioneering and influential computer iconographer, has designed thousands of software icons that have become familiar to anyone who uses a computer

This blog has some interesting things: Jewish Books

There's going to be a Roald Dahl Day on Sept. 13

Salon on Saunders

Some children's books about Mozart

Here's a big article about Haruki Murakami

I read and enjoyed Alison Bechdel's Fun Home graphic memoir a few weeks ago. In the NY Times, she revisits her parents' home.


And the American Girl Place Store actors went on strike