- Indiecredential offers a genuinely heartfelt, touching homage to the greatness of the Leeds Music Festival before indie disenchantment sucked out our ability to just have fun experiencing new music. 7.1.
- Speaking of indie disenchantment (or the reverse thereof), a music blogger ripping a Fiery Furnaces live show? Wowee! That’s like Eleanor Friedberger’s grandmother ripping a Fiery Furnaces live show. Fluxblog makes a strong case, including examples of older, better FF mp3s.
- Hero Hill has some more tracks off the new New Pornographers album. Apparently, the album will consist primarily of upbeat, catchy pop tunes, and not, as I’d predicted last month, 38 one-minute tracks of 80s straightedge hardcore.
- The Kinks’ “Drivin’”, Big Star’s “Big Black Car”, and a two-mile long blog post about cars, the same day I find out that fixing my ’96 Jeep is going to cost me trillion dollars? Not cool, karma. (Locust St.)
- Sayng “I forgot the Arctic Monkeys existed” is no longer a joke, I really did forget the Arctic Monkeys existed. (Scatter O’ Light)
