LHB’s Shorties (Kings of Convenience, Bauhaus, and More)

Erlend Oye of Kings of Convenience talks to PopMatters about the band's new album, Declaration of Dependence.

Drowned in Sound reviews two recently reissued and expanded Bauhaus albums, In the Flat Field and Mask.

The Guardian profiles British indie music label Hyperdub on its fifth anniversary.

The thing DJ, producer, writer and academic Steve Goodman wants you to know about his record label is that it's not really a record label: it's a virus. "That's the way I understand music culture. There's a history of music, particularly dub and reggae, being described as a virus – Hyperdub is a mutation of British electronic music, infected by Jamaican soundsystem culture: from dub and reggae, through jungle, right up to grime, dubstep and funky. It's a way of thinking about how musical change and evolution takes place."

The complete U2 Rose Bowl concert is now on YouTube.

NPR Music shares a streaming Halloween mix.

The California Literary Review profiles singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins.

Antville lists the 101 best videos of the decade (2000-2009).

NPR reviews my favorite music reissue of the year, the remastered edition of Betty Davis's Nasty Gal.

Wired's Epicenter blog lists the best ways to share a mixtape online.

- David Gutowski