June 3rd, 2009 9:24am
LHB’s Shorties (Sonic Youth, Stephin Merritt, and More)
iLike is streaming the new Sonic Youth album, The Eternal, in its entirety.
Entertainment Weekly is streaming the new Spinal tap album, Back from the Dead.
PopMatters interviews singer-songwriter Nellie McKay.
WhoSampled is an online community dedicated to discovering, discussing, and decoding music samples.
Tab Robot is an online guitar and bass tab database.
Stephin Merritt talks to the New York Press about his musical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
Though Merritt is dry as a Nol Coward putdown and diminutive (he is five-foot-three), there’s little diminuendo about him. “I’m regularly upset by what people write about me,” he tells me, “especially when it’s intended as a compliment. I got so frustrated being called a ‘short, gay, indie rocker’ I gave up reading what people write.” Dead silence, then a rumble. “And what’s an ‘indie rocker’? And short—compared to whom? How is gay anyone’s business who isn’t going to be intimate with me? Why is that something you want to read in the first sentence? What people write in characterizing me isn’t what I am representing to the world.” He won’t be reading this article.
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