John Darnielle gives some thoughts on some songs

Stephen Malkmus on fantasy baseball and living in NY

The NY Times on Brooklyn bands

Here's an article on the new Batman movie

Ibelieveinharveydent.com has been updated

ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com has not been updated

The Wall Street Journal with a small article on the Justice League New Frontier dvd movie

The Daily Mail has an article about Sleeveface

I don't mind providing free advertising for Mission of Burma:

Stephen Malkmus speaks here and here
(audio podcast download here)

Here's a John Darnielle interview, in which it's revealed that there is Jeffrey Lewis art in the liner notes, another reason to buy the physical album

The Library of Congress now is on Flickr, but the Sleeveface group is probably more fun.

Also, disappointing to see that Kucinich is dropping out.

Perhaps later I will account for my whereabouts over the past week+. For now some link catchup.

neat, new to me site:
Hardformat

It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like.

David Bazan at Daytrotter
Songs

Kindercore Records is back
New Site

Everyone likes Vampire Weekend.
Catbirdseat has a couple Vampire Weekend Mp3s

Interview with New Pornographers

"I think we played a certain kind of song for a few years and decided we can't keep making every song like this," explains singer and bandleader A.C. Newman. "Sometimes being over the top is amazing and sometimes being small is amazing. We want to have more scope.

Here's an article on the Canadian music scene/industry

Here's an article on QuickMuse with some David Berman quotes

New Vic Chesnutt album info: North Star Deserter

New Thee American Revolution MP3 here

Here's an article about Sub Pop records


Here's an article about no longer Smog Bill Callahan

Here's an article about Spoon

Nice Packaging:

The new McSweeneys is three books with magnetic spines inside a hardcover case. One of the books has poetry chains. They advertise one started by DC Berman, but it's previously published stuff. Actual Air came out so long ago...I hope there's another collection someday.

And these are all really neat:







From the People In A Position to Know Record Label.
There's a second subscription series full of mystery stuff from mystery bands starting soon.

Here's an interview with Maggie Frost, album art designer for Merge Records. Includes discussion of graphic design in digital age, and making band names legible when the cd covers shown are really really small.

Here's an interview with Robyn Hitchcock.

Q You've worked with Peter Buck and Gillian Welch, even John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. Who have you not worked with that you'd like to work with?

A Brian Eno. I first saw him in 1967, when he came to my school. People like him would come in with their blue sunglasses and blow up helium balloons , and we'd write messages on them and send them into the sky. I'm sure he's incredibly expensive, but he's somebody I would love to work with.

Here's a NY Times review of one of the RH shows from this past week. Somehow I managed to miss 2 RH shows and messed up the taping of the RH tv thing.

NPR has a Ted Leo show for download and/or streaming.

brief news links

Here's a NY Times profile of David Berman. And here is an article from Nashville.

And here is an article about jazz covers of Pavement.

There is a Beck remix cd coming out, with "remixed Dzama artwork".

The New SM album has some ugly art

Face the truth

A new beck album. ho hum.

The New York Times > Magazine > Beck at a Certain Age

I'm maybe more interested in what exactly the Marcel Dzama art will look like than the music, but it might be good.

I didn't realize that Beck was a scientologist. Or that Christina Ricci is on the new album.

Other NY Times articles :
A brief thing comparing the Kills, Stills and Thrills

NY Bands with Euro Girl Singers : Brazilian Girls (whose album was mixed by a colleague's husband) and Ivy

That Guns n Roses album really isn't going to come out anytime soon

spoon cover art

Gimme Fiction cover

I like it. Looks like something David Byrne would use, though.