You Ain’t No Picasso has a cool interview with The Boy Least Likely To

Welcome To The Midwest has a lot of good Matt Pond PA MP3′s.

The new My Morning Jacket album, “Z” has hit the internet. This is one band that I’ve never gotten to see live, but I really want to. The new album comes out October 4th, click here for more details.

Gorilla vs. Bear has some songs off the upcoming Devendra Banhart album, Cripple Crow. Or you can stream it here. Also, check out the two songs from the Shins.

Another Sufjan Stevens interview, this time with the Onion.

O: This plan to record an album for each of the 50 U.S. states—in a way, it obligates you, and in a way, it frees you to be creative as you just described. But it also gets you some attention, don’t you think? Whenever an artist steps up and announces a bold plan, it gets the media talking.

SS: It is really audacious, and I’ll admit that it’s all advertising, and all gimmick. Initially, it was intended just to get attention. In some ways now, I’m probably second-guessing all that. [Laughs.] But it’s made me exert myself in a way, to enable people to come to terms with the music on its own and the value of the music, and not the value of the proposition.

Also, check out the **** review issued by Rolling Stone.

But Stevens’ most intense songs are his personal ones. “Chicago” follows two friends as they hit the road in a van, sleeping in parking lots, heading nowhere in particular but drifting apart. “Casimir Pulaski Day” is a monstrously sad acoustic ballad about a friend dying of cancer and leaving a lot of painful spiritual questions behind. The singer prays for his friend, but his friend dies anyway; the singer is too young and scared to ask God why, so the trumpet solo has to ask.