Elvis Costello certainly has an “ADENOIDAL” voice, doesn’t he? Well, the New York Times thinks so, at least.

Mew – “Repeaterbeater” From the upcoming No More Stories iTunes EP, due out next week. (via Spinner)

George Costanza Bought Jo(h)n Voight’s LeBaron. Now you can buy Elliott Smith’s Passat (for Charity).

Deerhoof – “My Purple Past”

White Hinterland – “Mon Amie La Rose” and “Vessels” (Live on a Stroll Through SF’s Panhandle)

Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include mp3s of performances by moe., Citizen Cope and Toubab Krewe, and lossless bittorrent downloads of the Bruce Springsteen show.

The A.V. Club interviews Amadou Bagakoyo of Amadou & Mariam.

The Tennessean profiles Those Darlins.

Time Out Chicago and Paste interview Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

The Detroit Free Press interviews the band's drummer, Steve Shelley.

Decider Austin interviews the members of Double Dagger about the intersection of post-punk and graphic design.

D: Post-punk and spare design aesthetics have a long mutual history. Any idea why?

BW: If I was to venture a guess, I’d say that because post-punk is generally an artier take on punk rock, a lot of people who are into that music also have an interest in art. Or maybe they just have friends who are graphic designers. [Laughs.]

NS: I think that as a whole, post-punk is historically a little more stripped down and austere, which is a reaction against this great piling on of everything that you get in punk.

At Drowned in Sound, Andy Falkous of Future of the Left dissects the band's new album, Travels With Myself And Another, track-by-track.

Kid Cudi with Kanye West, Common, A-Trak and Lady Gaga - “Make Her Say” Since it is fair to assume that famous rappers do in fact get a lot of groupie action, it is also reasonable to believe that songs like this are in some way non-fictional, and the girls described in the lyrics are actual people, or at least composites of women the rappers have been with. (You know, like in New York Magazine!) So with that in mind, what do you reckon it’s like for these ladies when these sort of sex tunes come out? These guys are probably quite prolific, so is there maybe some doubt in their mind whether they are actually rapping about them? Even if you’ve done something as specific as give head to Kanye West in a college library, how do you know that’s not some fetish of his, and he’s been getting BJs in the stacks of every university on his tour route? If you’re certain that the rapper is talking about you (”YES! I was born in 1988 and Kanye boned me! It has to be me!”), do you tell everyone, or keep it as a more private source of pride? Do you get a little annoyed when Common quotes you in a somewhat unflattering way? Are you bothered by the fact that you get mentioned in a song that loops the best hooks from a Lady Gaga song built around the thinly-veiled phrase “poke her face”? Did you want something more romantic? If you’re the subject of the least-famous rapper’s verse, are you jealous of the chicks who got with the bigger names? So many questions!

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