Triple Threat: Fiona Apple, Aaron Ximm, Rainier Lericolais.

Triple Threat: Tag Cloud, Deniro Farrar & Shady Blaze feat. Haleek Maul, Guided By Voices.

This Beyonce Knowles thing I wrote was mildly humorous.

Triple Threat #6: Naked City Cinema, Ab-Soul, Eric Lanham.

Triple Threat #4: Kanye, Kanye, Kanye.

Triple Threat #5: Mike Bell, Juiceboxxx, Animal Collective.

Triple Threat #3: Sontag Shogun, Sharlyn Evertsz, Mayhem Lauren.

Triple Threat #2: Lantern, Mount Eerie, C.F.C.

"New God Flow"

5ingles is toast. Long live Triple Threat.

Triple Threat #1: Phil Julian, Meat Mist, Meek Mill feat. Rick Ross.

People love to cover the Reading Rainbow theme. May not be a good thing.

Do you have a Kindle? Do you have an iPod, iPad, or other device which can host a Kindle app? Have you ever read an alumni magazine? Do you have $1.59?

Then buy Class Notes.

This was supposed to run as a Village Voice music listing, but didn't due to a clerical error:

Celebrity DJs make the A-List for a reason, and the deceptively named Deadmau5 has earned his place there. The DJ born Joel Thomas Zimmerman may have committed his share of quasi-mortal sins – dating a Playmate without irony, assailing the etymology of his chosen profession in print, perverting the Disney logo fifty ways from Sunday – but there’s something quintessentially and universally euphoric about his brand of acid-trance that transcends race, economic status, and level of chemical dependency. Sure, Zimmerman’s fizz-tone beat-bounce prizes broad electronic strokes over ambient diffusion or convulsing-outside-a-rave nightmare, but in a compositional sense he excels at unspooling a good yarn, even if that yarn doesn’t go much deeper than the storyboard for a 30-second Mitsubishi advert.

Oh how weird; I didn't know this was out there online.

Introducing the decidedly D.I.Y. The Joy Of Cooking. Download it here. Thanks, Doug and Chris!

Jeff Mangum, Gang Gang Dance (again, in weird PDF format, doesn't seem to exist elsewhere).

Man Forever. (Somehow this wasn't digitized.)

And they seem to have established a page for these things here; note the Youth Lagoon and Black-Eyed Peas blurbs.

Yeah, I know, been a while.

I'm doing show listings for the Village Voice now, but for whatever reason on the site they don't (always) list the names of authors I'm just going to post the links here for my reference (and your enjoyment, maybe).

Olivia Tremor Control
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

More Cowbell: March and April.

My interview with Religious Knives is up on Sound of the City, the Village Voice music blog.