You Can Tell a Lot About a Woman By the Way She Scrubs a Cauldron

Notes from all over:

Stereogum points out that a new ACL Fest blog is keeping an up-to-date list of confirmed bands for the ACL Fest in September. Confirmed so far? The New Pornographers, The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Iron and Wine and Son Volt. Hmmm... if Wilco makes it's 3rd straight appearance...

[Will we ever stop dreaming?]

Everyone's favorite Colorado blogger, I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, has two cuts from last Friday's Black Crowes acoustic show in NYC. Both songs are NEW. Go check it out. She also has part two of her Ryan Adams "Bedhead" series. Great stuff.

Neither rain nor snow nor blackout nor Star Jones can keep him from playing. Ted Leo returns to South Street Seaport for a free show on August 25th at 7pm! Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for the head's up! He's also got the rest of the River to River lineup too!

Yeti Don't Dance is periodically updating his "State of the Year in Songs" series. Edition 3 is out today, and he links songs from Belle & Sebastian, Neko Case, and Midlake, among others. Check it out.

Bradley's Almanac has audio from the entire New Pornographers show in Boston last week here.

And, finally, do yourself a favor and go listen to some stuff over at Stereolaffs' MySpace site. If you don't know them, Stereolaffs are Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster (of Superchunk fame), doing some of the funniest damn fake radio interviews I've ever heard.