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Really interesting HARP magazine article about people who travel with cross-country tours.


I hate the Talking Heads, but David Byrne seems like an interesting enough guy even though he regularly seems pretentious as hell.

More Byrne, this time with Thom Yorke involved, making the interview at least 400% more talented and innovative.

MOJO’s “Why Classical Music Is Boring.” Are Marshall stacks really the answer?

The GZA from Wu Tang publicly announced that he has quit smoking weed, and this post on Rolling Stone’s Rock and Roll Blog asks the question whether he will be more or less productive as a rapper, comparing him with Snoop Dogg, J-Rock and Rev Run, among other quitters. The best part of this post is in the comments where some guy under the name ‘JSU Tiger’ made shocking confessions about his sexual inadequacies relating to smoking weed. This actually started an argument between people. I’m not making this up. Who in their right mind would post that? Is that really the best venue to take when revealing that kind of information? On Rolling Stone’s Rock Blog? Really?

Paste magazine feature on The National and their humble beginnings as a Cincinnati party band doing Grateful Dead and Allman Bros. covers.

SPIN’s year-end music business feature. Definitely worth a read-through. The times they are a-changin'.

The LA Times breaks down tour earnings, with The Police coming out on top.

Stereogum’s ‘premature evaluation’ of Cat Power’s upcoming covers album, Jukebox featuring some hard-hitting criticism, “Wow, Jukebox is like the most anticipated covers album since ... like forever.” Dude, seriously.

Honorable Media Blog goes the distance in breaking down Lupe Fiasco’s latest “The Cool.”