LHB’s Shorties (REM, Three Mile Pilot and More)

NPR is streaming in its entirety REM's new album, Live at the Olympia.

Free at Amazon MP3: the 16-track CMJ 2009: The Bands, The Music, The City, Vol. 3.

The Burlington Free Press interviews singer-songwriter Andrew Bird.

Clash Music reports that the Rakes will break up after their upcoming tour.

On Sale for $3.99 at Amazon MP3: the 26 -track New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets

NME reconsiders the Strokes' album, Is This It?

Beck's Gig Finder is an iPhone app that pulls nearby concert information from Last.fm based on your location.

The New Zealand Herald News profiles singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole.

Wired's Underwire blog profiles Three Mile Pilot.

Merging sci-fi, horror, military manuals and vintage videogame Star Control, Three Mile Pilot’s challenging art-punk never really had a chance to explode before the trio fractured around the turn of the century.

This two-song 7-inch contains the first new music from Three Mile Pilot in more than a decade. Now the band is crawling from the music-industry wreckage on the back of its sonic descendants — laptop-poppers Pinback and Systems Officer and goth-folkies The Black Heart Procession — and clearing the launch pad for a Three Mile Pilot comeback in 2010.

Make Major Moves interviews St. Vincent's Annie Clark.

- David Gutowski