“Michigan, Illinois … and 48 states to go. Lynsey Hanley talks to Sufjan Stevens, who plans to document the whole of the US in song and has just made one of the albums of the year.”

“The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream”

It’s getting crowded in podcastland.

“My future ambitions were: 1) to be an electronic engineer - I did do that; 2) to be a rock drummer - I did that; and 3) to tour with Rush. So Pixies and Rush touring together. Then that’s it. It’s all done.”

“Howard Dean’s gaffe was Jonathan Barlow’s muse.”

Joel Garver blogging, liveblogging, and smellblogging Live 8 Philly

mixes w/GarageBand then WSJ, Newsweek, MTV, VH1, Good Morning America come calling