LHB’s Shorties (Alina Simone, Free Luaka Bop MP3 Sampler Album, and More)

One Small Thing is the new blog written by singer-songwriter-author Alina Simone.

Free at At Amazon MP3: the 12-track Luaka Bop - Orinoco Sampler.

Also on sale at Amazon MP3: Blur's 1999 13-track 13 album for only $1.99.

Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include lossless bittorrent downloads of the shows.

InfoWorld shares the history of the Sony Walkman on the music player's 30th birthday.

Paste interviews Wilco members Nels Cline and John Stirratt.

The Other Paper profiles singer-songwriter Larry Jon Wilson, whose excellent (and critically neglected) self-titled album was released last week.

Wilson never cared much about being famous, either. He had a first-hand view of fame, and wasn’t impressed by its effect. “It’s a sad thing when stardom ruins people’s motivation. I’ve never had that problem. I cannot be yesterday’s papers, because I was never today’s papers,” he says, laughing. “So there’s an upside to that.”

The worst possible 33 1/3 book covers. (the inspiration)

eMusic lists 2009's overlooked albums.

Drowned in Sound interviews Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Anderssen.

Download mp3s of Blur's Glastonbury set.

- David Gutowski