LHB’s Shorties (Girls in Trouble, St. Vincent and More)

Jweekly profiles Alicia Jo Rabins of Girls in Trouble, whose wonderful self-titled album was released digitally yesterday (the CD is released on November 3rd).

Express Night Out interviews St. Vincent's Annie Clark.

Express Night Out also profiles Clark's current touring mate, Andrew Bird.

"Eventually, I want to try to do some sort of episodic thing, kind of 'Muppet Show'-style," Bird said. "Maybe if the CD is dead or dying, then the thing is more of an episodic-type thing where you take a song and kind of unfold all the little facets of the song into, like, a 25-minute show. Often times the songs I write have a lot of layers, and sometimes there's three of four different streams going on within one song, kind of like an episode where there's a couple of plot lines going on. [It could be] kind of like a musical 'Mr. Show' — that's it in a nutshell."

AfterEllen points out Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, and Cyndi Lauper dolls. (via)

NPR's All Songs Considered lists the highlights from the 2009 edition of CMJ.

The streaming radio show No Love for Ned this week features an in-studio performance by Knight School.

The Aquarian Weekly interviews Charlie Fink of Noah and the Whale.

Singer-songwriter David Bazan talks to Pitch Weekly about his new album and crisis of faith.

Today is the last day to download 11 Mojo Nixon albums free at Amazon MP3.

NPR is streaming last night's performance by Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar.

- David Gutowski