- L’il Wayne fans have taken to Twitter to demand that MTV release his Unplugged special from last night. Phew! It’s reassuring to be reminded that social media can also be used to enable things that were utterly, absolutely, 100 percent guaranteed to happen anyway.
- A couple days old but worth catching up with: Pitchfork’s Mark Richardson chats up David Byrne about his innovative approaches to live shows over the years. Ride, Rise, Roar, a film documenting Byrne’s wonderful 2008-9 tour, just came out on DVD.
- My fellow Click Track contributor Mark Jenkins reports that Conor Oberst is emulating U2 now. Crikey. Listen to me very carefully: YOU CAN NOT BLAME EVERY AWFUL THING THAT HAPPENS ON U2. Please stop. Thank you.
- NPR’s brilliant pop critic Ann Powers does some serious heavy lifting making Kreayshawn somewhat explicable to me.
- Ye Gods, I certainly hope I’m not the only Pinna Storm reader who cares that long-serving E Street Band saxophone player Clarence “Big Man” Clemons has suffered a stroke. Big Man appears on Lady Gaga‘s Born This Way album in addition to Bruce Springsteen‘s Born to Run (where he also appeared on the cover with Bruce) and Born in the U.S.A., among other, non-Born albums.
- The Decemberists are at Merriweather Post Pavilion tonight with Best Coast. The Decemberists’ prior Merriweather show, two years ago, was very good. I’m going to tonight’s show and I expect greatness.
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