LINKS

• Brooklyn Alternative Bands - Music - New York Times
  No longer chasing record contracts, young bands are making weird music and thriving.
  
  
• Nine Inch Nails - Snoop Dogg - Music - Review - New York Times
  
  
• City of blogs - Minnesota Daily
  So you want to build a music and arts community? First, contact your system administrator.
  
  
• TRASH MENAGERIE | KMD meets SMD
  I managed to tie Jas Shaw down for a quick chat before he escaped again to continue on their hectic schedule. We talked about their new EP - Clocks, The Chemical Brothers & 'Tits & Acid' obviously….
  
  
• FLUXBLOG: Love Is Just A Dialogue
  The Kills "Cheap and Cheerful"
  
  
• RA: Sounding off: Confessions of an MP3 blogger - Feature / Interview
  MP3 blogs are stealing music from labels for their own self-aggrandizement, writes Steve Mizek.
  
  
• 100% - Surkin interview
  Glitchy ghetto spliced-up dirty house purveyor Surkin used to hate dance music, listening to rap music exclusively until around 2003, when guys like DJ Assault, DJ Nasty and Disco D's ghetto rhythms began to seep through his guard, luring him over...
  
  
• brooklynvegan: MSTRKFRFT's JFK on techno artists "playing live"
  "someone wrote to me last night on myspace, saying we should play live and wear the masks etc. instead of DJing."
  
  
• The Wake » Blog Archive » Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles
  The "vitrola punk" sound.
  
  
• Jim DeRogatis: Pitchfork founder and indie-rock tastemaker Ryan Schreiber talks about branching out to TV and video game soundtracks while keeping the integrity in his Web zine’s journalism and criticism. Can it be done?
  
  
• Neenja - Daily Entertaining Media - Articles - 40 Movie References From The Simpsons
  We all love The Simpsons right? A lot of people really don't realize how much Matt Groening likes to reference movies in his episodes. There are a few here I didn't even realize he did. 100% credit goes to Actualidad Simpsons, a Simpsons fan site.
  
  
• Signalnoise.com | The art of James White » Inspiration: Superman movie design
  
  
• Alt Text | Super (Mario) Wedding Cake
  At perhaps the best wedding (congratulations Brent and Annette) I have been to, there was by far the best wedding cake I have seen.
  
  
• daughters: a series of interviews
  apparently the february issue of spin has a feature called "the return of disco"?