G5
- (above) How our timeline after discovering new music has changed over the last 20 years. Not sure where this is from, I’d link if I did. Click to zoom
- In the final installment of The AV Club’s cover series Undercover, The Walkmen cover REM’s “Driver 8.” The WSJ’s Speakeasy blog interviewed some AV Club people about the series
- I enjoyed this piece on the process that develops fandom and the importance of a real following for bands, even if it was centered on Jason Mraz (ZING. Always be zingin, folks)
- I’m likely going to end up linking to all of these over the next few months but Nathan Rabin’s series on the NOW That’s What I Call Music! CDs are fun reads. Today’s entry: Volume 15 from March 2004
- Finally, Google and Arcade Fire made a slightly interactive video for “We Used to Wait” (best viewed in Chrome). Mashable says the video is a triumph that demonstrates the potential of HTML5, to which I say, “I still don’t get HTML5.” I tend to agree with Bob Lefsetz on this one: it was a great publicity stunt, but ultimately, not all that compelling
