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The Fresh & Onlys – “Waterfall” From Play It Strange, out 10/12 on In The Red.

Two Guardian writers debate the question, "Is Lady Gaga a feminist icon?".

Work in Progress interviews Destroyer's Dan Bejar and has Thermals drummer Westin Glass pair albums with novels.

The Arizona Republic interviews Pixies drummer David Lovering about the band's Doolittle album.

Pavement's Bob Nastanovich talks to the Boston Herald about the band's reunion tour.

The Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn puts her iPod on shuffle for the Boston Globe.

Verbicide interviews the Vivian Girls.

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway talks to the Independent about his new solo album, Familial.

TechCrunch profiles the streaming music blog aggregator, Shuffler.

Jaakko Pallasvuo

Land of Talk - “Quarry Hymns” It doesn't take much to make me fall in love. Turn your head there, there, and I'm inviting you down to the canal. But I do not fall out. I try to. I drag my feet across miles. I press my forehead to window-glass and burn everything I own. I am now 41 years old and there are 26 trails behind me, grey trails like single threads; each trail leads to a person and a pair of hands I long to hold. These threads are thin enough to break, but I have not broken them. I haul them. I feel them behind me, passing through fields, forests, shallows. One of you lives in a skyscraper now, one by a crack in the earth. Many of you are married. I do not know why I have not stopped. Or, I do; it is like trying to discard one's shadow. I look at myself in the mirror and I do not see shadings there. I see my own face. It is yesterday's face that is edged by every you.

[Tonight I realized, abruptly, that I had not written about Land of Talk's Cloak and Cipher, a record I have been listening to for many months. It is beautiful and secret. I wrote an album bio for Lizzie this spring (I can only find it here), and it was a privilege. Look at these lyrics. Please buy the album, and see them on tour now across North America (including tonight in Toronto).]

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