LHB’s Shorties (Jeff Tweedy, Son Volt, and More)

American Songwriter is counting down the top 20 Jeff Tweedy songs.

Crave Online interviews Brody Dalle of Spinnerette.

The Denver Post interviews Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar.

At Paper Cuts, author Laird Hunt creates a "living with music" music playlist.

On sale at Amazon MP3 for $3.99: Stellastarr*'s 10-track Civilized album for $3.99.

Spinner profiles singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm.

Like her life story, Grimm's music is just as unpredictable. Her 2008 album 'Parplar' draws on various musical styles such as folk, blues, Middle Eastern and Indian yet there is also an underlying influence of Appalachia. "I grew up with the Appalachian and bluegrass tradition," she says. "Most folk music is kind of the same. All of these things, to me, are related coming from this Appalachian music."

KTVU interviews singer-songwriter Rhett Miller of the Old 97s.

The New York Press interviews Dan Boeckner of Handsome Furs.

The Pitch profiles So Many Dynamos.

The band is frequently — and derisively, at least in a recent Pitchfork Media review — compared with Washington, D.C., postpunk acts such as the Dismemberment Plan and Q and Not U, but the Dynamos' music is much more nuanced. Thanks to influences ranging from At the Drive-In to Yes (and including Broken Social Scene, Minus the Bear, Talking Heads and Weezer), Wars is faster, busier and more futuristic — and far more fluid.

WNYC's Soundcheck hosts a panel discussion (that features one of my favorite music bloggers, Maura Johnston of Idolator) about the future of the music magazine.

The Heavy visits The Current studio for an interview and in-studio performance.

- David Gutowski