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The Loud Family – “Cortex the Killler”

Is there just a more crushable band in the world than The Loud Family? If there is, it’s probably Game Theory, which is Scott Miller’s other, older, band. His newer band, The Loud Family, is sort of an old band now too, though. Miller has said, “I’m utterly serious about music. I just respect the buying public’s judgment that it’s not what I should do for a living.” So instead he is a database programmer.

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Strolls Through Time and Space, by Michael Johansson

Gigi - “I'll Quit (feat. Owen Pallett)”

“I suppose in some ways I was asking to have my heart broken,” said looking blank, at the pitcher of lemonade on the table, covered in plastic wrap with an elastic band to keep out the flies.

“Dr. Nevsky, please,” said the young assistant, anxious in a fitted lab coat.

The two crouched in silence and dusted bones. Nevsky had stayed up late the night before arranging the bones in an order he thought indicated the shape and size of the new creature. Three long flat feet, two in the front and one way behind. The tail permanently between the legs, the head tilted ever to the ground, arms outstretched as if trying to fly or walk a tightrope. A large chest cavity, horns with joints, and a leftover bone, that Nevsky looked at for an hour or so. Eventually he laid in the larynx of the beast, and when questioned by the assistant, referred to it as “the screaming bone.”

“Dr. Nevsky, nothing has ever existed in history that looks like this.”

“I know,” he said, checking his watch, sweating, his mind elsewhere, “it's quite a find, isn't it?”

“Dr. Nevsky,” said the assistant, suddenly calm, and suddenly, finally, attractive, “I don't believe it is.”

Nevsky sighed and poured a glass of lemonade. [Buy]

Parenthetical Girls – “Evelyn McHale”

Fol Chen – “The Longer U Wait”

Vivian Girls – “He’s Gone” The b-side from their forthcoming “My Love Will Follow Me” 7-inch, out next month on Wild World.

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NPR's All Things Considered reviews Mickey Leigh's new book, I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir.

Leigh watches the birth of punk rock from the sidelines. As his brother ascends to fame, Mickey puts band after band together, only to see each one fall apart. Joey hires his brother as a roadie, a backup singer, a musical collaborator. But while The Ramones' legend grows, Mickey works odd jobs, from cab driver to bartender to marijuana dealer. Mickey asks for royalties, for contacts, for help with his own music projects. Joey says no. For the most part, the family sides with Joey, who is at once more powerful and more needy than his little brother.

The Buffalo News profiles singer-songwriter A.A Bondy.

What Bondy appears to be after throughout "Devil" is some sort of redemption, but like a male lead character in a Cormac McCarthy novel, he seems fully prepared to never be granted as much. The album is the sound of whiskey and cigarettes and dusty roads that lead to nowhere, but it’s also the sound of an auto-didact with a tendency toward the bookish who left home a long while back and, at long last, has finally run out of highway to drive and books to read.

The Louisville Courier-Journal interviews Joey Burns of Calexico about the band's orchestral performances.

The Telegraph shares that British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy is an Arctic Monkeys fan.

The 54-year-old Scottish writer said the award-winning group had managed to bridge the gap between pop and poetry just like Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Leonard Cohen did in the Sixties.

The Independent examines how faith is changing indie rock.

The lyrical stakes in Christian-rooted rock are higher, Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, a largely lapsed Catholic, believes. "This pass-key of The Bible and the church can open up doors to weighty themes," he says. "If I'm suffering in a Godless universe – which I am! – then my suffering is trivial, a drop in an endless ocean of it. But in a cosmology in which there's gravity to individual suffering, then that suffering is richer. The other thing is, it's a doorway out of the narcissism where you always write about yourself."

JamBase interviews John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats.

On sale at Amazon MP3: Adele's 12-track 19 album for $2.99.

NPR is streaming the Knife's new album, Tomorrow, In a Year (a 90-minute "electro-opera") in its entirety.

Time interviews Ozzy Osbourne about his new book, I Am Ozzy.

By the Numbers shares a 60-song History of Chicago Music 1908-1980 compilation.

3:AM Magazine shares a list of imaginary tribute band names.

The nominees for the BBC Radio 2 2010 Folk Awards have been named.