Mew – “Introducing Palace Players”

Decider Milwaukee lists 5 great Townes Van Zandt covers.

Time Out Chicago profiles Baby Teeth (and takes the band to karaoke).

Time offers a brief history of hipsters.

Captains Dead shares an mp3 collection of Cat Power BBC performances.

Exclaim! interviews Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth.

Help Theory 8 Records make videos for its artists. A $25 donation gets you 8 CDs fro the label, a $50 donation nets you all 18 discs in its discography.

Inspired by Paste's list, Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson lists her top 10 R.E.M. songs.

Holopaw – “Black Lacquered Shame”

As we pointed out awhile back, Holopaw are back on the scene, with a new record, Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness., out in September, a new 7-inch to boot, plus also a brand-spankin’-new website.

The new record is due on 9/8 on Bakery Outlet Records (CD) / Obscurist Press (Vinyl) — so get in there and get your preorder in.

Bell - “Magic Tape” All songs are essentially sensory illusions, but there is something particularly chimerical about this composition. It curves and folds in on itself without seeming to break a single straight line like some kind of musical Möbius strip, but there’s also a hint at multiple layers of depth that are not immediately apparent. There’s a sense of physical space at every moment, but it’s difficult to suss out the shape of that space, or your position in it. Nevertheless, the piece does not evoke discomfort or vertigo — on the contrary, the confusion is a pleasurable thing, kinda like the way we go on amusement park rides to simulate sensations we rarely encounter in normal life.

Visit the official Bell website.

WTF: Spoon, Andrew Bird, Broken Social Scene and more played a YOGA FESTIVAL?

Punknews reports that Jawbox’s 1994 album For Your Own Special Sweetheart is being reissued (with 3 bonus tracks) by Dischord/DeSoto

(via Line Out)