Metromix New York interviews Zach Condon of Beirut.

The ACL Blog profiles Daniel Johnston, who makes a guest appearance with the Swell Season this week on Austin City Limits.

Billboard has Flight of the Conchords spring North American tourdates.

Drowned in Sound recaps December and January's music releases.

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is auctioning a guest list spot (+1) for his entire solo tour with John Vanderslice to benefit Goner Records founder Zac Ives' daughter, Anna.

Nick Sylvester on Animal Collective, Hating, Insecurity, The Joker, and Hipster Runoff

Paul Simon - “Peace Like a River”“Peace Like a River” is a song about a city through which peace-like-a-river, like a river, runs. And like a river, Paul Simon's guitar runs through "Peace Like a River," flowing around every word, into the song's every empty space. The titular phrase comes from the 19th-century hymn "It is Well With My Soul," which celebrates the imperviousness of the godly soul to worldly trials and degradations. This is essentially the theme of Simon's song, too, except, for Simon, the health of the soul seems not to depend on faith, but on an adherence to righteous principles. “Peace Like a River” is from Simon's self-titled oh-so-good post-S&G debut and there's a bit of “The Only Living Boy in New York” in it, in the way that it hooks you and tugs with each unexpected rise and fall.

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Harlem Shakes - “Winter Water”A worm runs away from home. A short note in the middle of the night, and across the field in the rain. Out of breath and hearts racing, worm reaches the city limits and turns back only for a second before heading out into the cold open air. Barely stopping to sleep, worm eventually meets others, a new gang of friends. Starts a new life, and for weeks doesn't even think about back home. Until one day worm mistakes a worm for someone he knew back home. A beautiful young worm, reminded him of a worm, a special worm, who of course wouldn't still be so young. But it all came flooding back. Now worm sees leaves and bark and earth and water, and thinks, "Yeah, worm would like this." And at nights in the new life, worm finds himself thinking, too much, of a worm.

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Air - "La Femme D'Argent"

What a fantastic video.