LHB’s Shorties (Alex Chilton, Carrie Brownstein, and More)

Remembrances of Alex Chilton by Ben Greenman, the Guardian, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Arts Beat, Entertainment Weekly, and Greg Kot.

This 2010 Pavement tour page includes links to mp3 and bittorrent lossless downloads of the band's reunion shows.

Flavorwire lists 10 music critics you should follow on Twitter.

Consequence of Sound interviews Cymbals Eat Guitars frontman Joseph D'Agostino.

Drowned in Sound shares a collection of indie rock love songs interpreted as posters.

IFC interviews Carrie Brownstein about her acting career and writing about music.

You had not one but four stories in the "Best Music Writing" anthology that Greil Marcus put together. How'd you transition so smoothly from playing music to writing about it?

I think a common thread in my life before I was in a band and when I was young was that writing always was something that was important to me. I'm a huge reader. And during my time in Sleater-Kinney, I was always the one asked to provide the added commentary or analysis. Occasionally, publications would ask me to write something, like a tour diary, and that led to essays. When the band ended, I felt like I wanted to pursue that more wholeheartedly. It might from the outside seem like the band ended and then I picked up a pen and started writing for NPR, but it's something that I've worked on for a lot of years.

Paste has posted an hour-by-hour guide to SXSW Music 2010.

The Guardian profiles the record label 4AD.

Aurgasm interviews Rasmus Stoldberg of Efterklang.

NPR's SXSW coverage includes recorded streams of shows by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Broken Bells, the Walkmen, and much more.

- David Gutowski