[Links] Culture Club - 9/21
Lots of great stuff today, including the above video from sketch group Cook County Social Club of Chicago
Free/Cheap Stuff
-I don’t live in the U.S., and as such, would have some trouble going to the CMJ Music Marathon in New York, but if you could potentially go, you should enter the AV Club’s contest for a badge. I’ve gone to two CMJs sans badges and you’ll enjoy it much more if you’ve got one.
-On the cheap at Amazon: Monsters of Folk
Music News
-The much-discussed New Moon soundtrack has been announced
-Harlem Shakes are breaking up?
-Congrats to Skeet Skeet for being named to the Amp’d What’s Next crew
-PMA posted a solid mixtape to their blog
-The Fader has a solid feature up on Girls
-Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard got hitched over the weekend
-The Guardian on Nirvana’s Bleach reissue
-Merge Records honchos Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance discuss 20 years of running the label
-P4k on “The Decade in News”
-RawkBlog counts down their top 20 albums of the decade
-Good interview here with Premo
-NPR talked with Pearl Jam about the upcoming album Backspacer
-Interesting read from the AV Club: a discussion of “cultural blindspots” growing up
-Good interview here with Amoeba record store owner Marc Weinstein about their upcoming online store
-Both the the New York and Los Angeles Times profiled Monsters of Folk
-The Chicago Sun-Times wrote interestingly on the Muslim punk rock scene
-The Cleveland Plain-Dealer profiles label Exit Stencil
