LHB’s Shorties (Pavement, Josh Ritter and More)

Pavement's Spiral Stairs talks to The Age about the band's upcoming reunion shows and the possibility of new material.

Strangeglue interviews singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop.

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter talks to Express Night Out.

Philadelphia Weekly profiles The Swimmers.

“I think there’s something just so distinctive about certain synth sounds that really just go immediately somewhere for some people,” Steve says. “But we really weren’t making an homage and a lot of the bands we’re being compared to we weren’t listening to those bands.” Namely Interpol, Joy Division, New Order, and, humorously, the Killers. “We don’t even own, none of us own, a Killers record,” Krista clarifies. Yeah, didn’t think so.

The Telegraph critiques the BBC's January list of artists to watch.

Paste lists the 30 best cover songs of the decade.

Indie Rock Cafe's The 12 Plays of Alternative-Indie Christmas Songs series should help many of us make that winter holiday mix.

Music Ally interviews Rebel Digital's Robin Kent about the future of ad-supported music.

The Guardian has created a musical Advent calendar for 2009.

- David Gutowski