The Toronto Star suggests some new tunes. As they pointed me to the new Summer Hymns track, I'll take a look at some of these artists.

There's a Hold Steady podcast.


The Washington City Paper compares new albums from Robyn Hitchcock and Lindsay Buckingham. ??!

the NY Times profiles rereleases of private label stuff, such as the Numero label's offerings

this Village Voice article about the creed-like guy from American Idol's post TV fate is the kind of thing that ends up in those Da Capo best music writing things. More for the "sad/pitiful" tone than for anything else...


In the Guardian:
"A recent poll in the New York Times named Toni Morrison's Beloved as the greatest work of American fiction in the past 25 years. But what about over here? On the eve of this year's Booker Prize, we asked 150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005. How they defined 'best' was up to them ..."
Here's another Daniel Handler interview.

Librarianship as a vocation. Movie file at the Internet Archive.