Matablog has a Stephen Malkmus mp3 ["Baltimore"] from his forthcoming album

Pitchfork has an interview with SM

Cassettes Won't Listen have a kind of hohum cover of "Cut Your Hair"

Pitchfork also covers the worst album covers of 2007 with good humor

The baseball players were apparently all on steroids

Darren Hayman [ex-Hefner] has a bluegrass band that covered the Mountain Goats' Jam Eater Blues

Robert Pollard discloses 10 facts that people don't know