LHB’s Shorties (Bat for Lashes, Dinosaur Jr., and More)

Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include bittorrent downloads of lossless shows by David Byrne, Grace Potter, Ilo and the Coral Reefer Allstars (with Jimmy Buffett), Andrew Bird, Toubab Krewe, Erykah Badu, Galactic, and Phish.

Out magazine interviews Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan. (via)

NPR's Weekend Edition also profiles the band.

The Skinny wraps up its interview series with Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis.

Decider Denver/Boulder interviews Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis.

D: You've said in other interviews that you're a big Destroyer fan. Are the characters like Henrietta in "Rust" little nods to the characters in Dan Bejar's songs?

MBL: No, Henrietta is a real person that I had the hugest crush on in Liverpool. I think Bejar's writing about things that come through his head. I don't know what he's talking about most of the time, but I really try to figure it out, and that's what's cool about his music. That's the opposite of what we do, I think, because Telekinesis is really straightforward and simple, with lyrics about traveling and love. Something like Destroyer is really whimsical and off the wall, which is something that I would like be able to do. But it's tough to write about something that isn't really dear to you, at least for me. But I think that's because I wear my emotions on my sleeve.

PopMatters and Express Night Out review the new album by Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers, Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs).

- David Gutowski