Seventh Inning Stretch

Just odds and ends today. Anyone catch Liz Phair singing "God Bless America" yesterday at the World Series? How'd she do? She's smiling in the photograph here, so I'm assuming it went well. Hope she has a good show tonight in Toronto at the Phoenix. I'll be there. [photo from Yahoo! News]

Scotland on Sunday profiles its own thriving music scene, which is due in no small part to the internet.

chartattack spoke to Freakwater prior to their show yesterday in Toronto at the El Mocambo, which I ended up not going to.

The Boston Globe spoke with Kevin Drew about the chaotic nature of Broken Social Scene. Kevin says, "When you're constantly on the road it rules you, and if you're not careful it can take over. The last year, there was a lot of confusion. The challenge is trying to keep it together, having all your friends be in different kinds of bands, trying to maintain those friendships, and keep the music honest."

Iron & Wine and Calexico performed a live session for KEXP yesterday Saturday October 22 at 4:00 pm. Listen to the session through the 14-day streaming archive.

Last week, WYNC's Soundcheck took a closer look at the recent Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home" with author Tim Riley who's written several books on Bob Dylan. Lifelong Bob Dylan fan Robyn Hitchcock was also on the show to discuss his favourite album. Go here for streaming media of the show.

Pitchfork has a review of Jens Lekman track "A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill"(as well as a link to an mp3 download of the song) which will be included on the upcoming Lekman EP compilation, "Oh, You're So Silent Jens" which will be released November 22nd. I'm looking forward to his upcoming Toronto show at The Music Gallery on November 5th. I think it's a solo show which is somewhat unfortunate because the Motown-ish trumpet-riffing on the above track would be so sweet to hear live.

Here's a pretty cool gallery of punk, post-punk & new-wave 7" and 12" record sleeves. [via Prefixblog via Boing Boing]

And lastly, a couple of Feist videos for your downloading pleasure courtesy of ProdigyBoy over at the Arts & Crafts Broken Telephone Forums. They're clips(incomplete, unfortunately but still good) of Feist's performance of "Mushaboom" on Vicki Gabereau. Download the clips, here(right click and save) and here(right click and save). Update: Download links not working at the moment. Check back later.