Notes From All Over

We seem to be in another slowdown in the world of music news. Must be the impending holidays. Or maybe all the other bloggers are waiting on line at their local electronics store for the Nintendo Wii. (Thanks to Brian at MGoBlog for the South Park links.)

Regardless, here's a few of the more interesting things from the last few days:

Bradley's Almanac has MP3s from the Long Winters' recent stopover in Allston, Mass. Excellent stuff, as always.

Hot Rod Circuit are set to release a new album on Immortal Records in March. I may be one of the last people around who even remember who they are. (Via Aversion.com)

Ryan Adams has released another eight albums of material on his website. I think it's time to give up on the idea of him ever putting out a concise, focused album, and just accept him for what he is - batshit crazy. But in a good way. (Via Stereogum.)

Not sure how long this has been up, but there's a short interview with Tobin Sprout (formerly of Guided By Voices) at Mundane Sounds.

RBally, who apparently isn't quitting but is just scaling back the operations, links today to a pretty cool article about Wilco's virtuoso guitarist, Nels Cline.

MSG Entertainment has purchased New York's Beacon Theatre and will close the venue for 9 months next year to do a $10 million overhaul. (Via Coolfer)

Torr profiles the new CD by The Cake Sale, a new project by a collection of Irish musicians intended to benefit Oxfam Ireland's Make Trade Fair campaign. The project includes, among others, Damien Rice<, Glen Hansard, Gemma Hayes, Lisa Hannigan and Josh Ritter (who's not Irish). A video for the song "Some Surprise" can be found here. I <3 Lisa Hannigan.

And, finally, Spinner points us in the direction of the hottest new Christmas tune of the year. And no, it's not Sufjan:



Dear god I hope I age better than these guys.