LHB’s Shorties (Christopher Monks, Bruce Springsteen, and More)

Billboard has news of Capitol's expanded reissues of Radiohead's first three albums.

Daytrotter's Thursday session features in-studio mp3s from Ohtis.

The Los Angeles Times' Pop & Hiss blog profiles Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom.

Onstage, partially hidden by a Les Paul Gold Top re-issue or a Gibson ES-125 hollow body (writers frequently mention her small stature as if amazed that a voice that big could come out of a body that small), Wennerstrom seems like a natural, simultaneously swaggering and at ease.

Rolling Stone's weekly "new breaking artist" is the Vivian Girls.

The National Post interviews Land of Talk's Elizabeth Powell.

Q Is it difficult to be a woman in this kind of industry?

Sometimes it's so subtle but in terms of media exposure and your sexuality, I definitely feel like I have to make a concerted effort. This is why I only work now with Joe Yarmush, who's our bass player who is also our photographer. I love working with him. Otherwise, you're struggling with these people who keep trying to sexualize you, even when you're like "no, no, no, no, wait. Jeans, t-shirt, that's actually what I think is cool."

Billboard profiles Lily Allen.

Indeed, the changes in Allen's life and profile should really make interviewing her now about as straightforward as trying to interrogate Britney Spears using only Amy Winehouse as an interpreter. But somehow, the bright, sparky talent with the filthy laugh and the disarmingly relaxed manner seems to have survived. She sashays in from the bedroom in denim hot pants and a pink top and snuggles up on the sofa under an old blanket to discuss everyone from Perez Hilton ("An irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life") to Guy Hands, whose every mention is accompanied by an affectionate "jazz hands"-style finger waggling.

The New Haven Advocate profiles two of my favorite songwriters, Don Chambers and Larkin Grimm.

NPR's All Things Considered profiles Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born to Run," and offers videos of how its live performance has evolved over the years.

Vampire Weekend's Chris Thomson talks to Drowned in Sound about the band's next album.

- David Gutowski