[Links] CC - 10/21
“Mowgli’s Road” from Marina and the Diamonds
-Slate’s Jonah Weiner defends Creed as underrated…given that the band is widely reviled, reviled enough that without knowing their music, one might expect a monkey banging on trash cans, I accept that they’re underrated; the question is to what degree. My best estimate is that Creed is underrated the same way that Teletubbies, brussels sprouts and Dan Brown novels are underrated; that is, when there’s nothing else to listen to (or watch/eat/read) it will REMIND you of music (or television/food/books)
-Google is launching a music service? Great news, in my opinion
-The Very Best presents some of their favorite music for P4k’s Guest List
-Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Remix Collection) is streaming through CBS Radio
-Crave’s Eight Overhyped Bands You’ll Forget by Next Year (they actually listed nine bands); my brief thoughts in parentheses: Wolfmother (disagree), Passion Pit (disagree), Grizzly Bear (disagree), White Lies (agree), Glasvegas (disagree), LMFAO (agree), Little Boots (unsure on her), Dirty Projectors (disagree) and Bon Iver (disagree)
-CMJ Tuesday Recaps: from NPR’s All Songs Considered and P4k here and here
-The Get Up Kids stopped by the Daytrotter studios
-Aquarium Drunkard’s retrospective continues with Cat Power’s The Greatest
-Yeasayer has signed with Secretly Canadian to put out Odd Blood, their follow-up to 2007’s All Hour Cymbals
-The FADER on Nina Simone at Newport
-The AV Club interviewed RZA about writing The Wu-Tang Manual and The Tao of Wu
