some links from other places:

Spin.com with an article about music leaks
via BV

John Darnielle likes Dionne Warwick
via LHB

Ryan Adams, Beck and others designing cover art for Penguin Classic novels
via LHB

(Doesn't look like Penguin is adding anymore Comics/Graphic Deluxe classics anytime soon.)

Matador and New York magazine on Mark Ibold, exPavement, sometimes Sonic Youth bassist