The Guardian has some 20th century poetry going on

Here's an article about the upcoming Destroyer album

Mountain Goats as a trio

Re: Spitzer, David Byrne wonders why the identities of clients 1-8 and 10+ have not been released..


Apparently the Archdiocese of NY is (was?) holding a contest to design a papal skateboard in honor of Benedict's visit?? (I can't get through to the actual? site right now)

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

Quickmuse: David Berman composes a poem in 15 minutes

Watch here

Finished product here

some Billy Collins poems on youtube:





and another

via quickblog

It's been a while...

Here are some hits on Destroyer:
NY Times article
Merge has a contest for all you photoshoppers
3 hive has a legal mp3 of s track from the new album, which is now up on emusic

here is a John Darnielle poem. He reports that he is about to record a new album.

New Fiery Furnaces mp3s are hitting the blogs
Here's an article about the FF

loose fur video linked from Drag City

David Berman commentates on the contents of Cassie's ipod.

Here's an article about Robyn Hitchcock.


George Saunders wants e-books.

After the scandal broke over James Frey's falsehoods in his hit book A Million Little Pieces, Saunders penned a humorous essay stemming from the events. It was a confession to Oprah Winfrey that all of the fiction he'd written had, in fact, been true. But Saunders had a hard time getting the piece published quickly, and now it feels dated. "There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity," he says.

And here's an update from Yo La Tengo in Nashville.

OK, hopefully more productive now.