Culture Bully — Wow, Gregg Gillis sure can throw one hell of a party. With just a laptop and a copious amount of streamers, confetti, and toilet paper, the man known professionally as Girl Talk completely invigorated a sold out First Avenue, and turned a relatively ... more info

The Lemur Blog — Results of week 43-44:Who is better, Kanye West or 50 Cent?Kanye West is by far the most adequate performer of the art of rap in this context 30 (88%)WTF'sup, man? Izz Tha 5-to-the-0 $ent fo shizz, dawg! 4 (11%)It feels relieving that the readers of ... more info

Pitchfork — Like a Down Under, rock version of Rock the Bells, St Jerome's Laneway Festival will travel to various cities around Australia once again next year. The 2009 installment of the festival goes down smack dab in the middle of the Australian summer, kick... more info

Guardian Music — •Emo heroes Fall Out Boy tell Stevie Chick why they expect there to be a White House packed with tattooed people one day•It's 50 years since the first sample-based record ended up causing a lawsuit. Dorian Lynskey talks to modern sampler ... more info

Stereogum — Portland Filmmaker Dan Woods got a bunch of sorta-familiar indie rockers to sing "Gardenia," which is a fine backup plan when Stephen Malkmus is too much of a Jick to show up to his own video shoot. (J/K, Stevie.) Fortunately Portland is an indie ro... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Eirik LandeAs you might imagine, a hell of a lot more goes into a Girl Talk tour than proper hydration and finding the right plug for Gregg Gillis' laptop. Good thing, then, for the Girl Talk fall tour video blog! Comprised of footage of Gre... more info

The Music Fix — Review: Where can you hear Rick Astley, Slayer and Dexy's at the same time? On the new Girl Talk album, that's where. That's almost as strange as women talking. Women can talk for ages. Hours sometimes. Whew. more info

XLR8R — Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) is likely one of the busiest guys in music, what with all the show dates, songs, and samples on his plate, but he hasn't forgotten the fans. Thus, he has unveiled his new day-to-day blog, which is currently docume... more info

Pitchfork — So. Here we come again to another rousing round of Taco Bell's Feed the Beat, the contest that lets you, as they put it, "hear some great tunes and help pick this year's best indie bands." Things are a little different this time out, with 100 bands r... more info

Chorus.fm — Pitchfork has posted their lengthy, informative interview (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/144730) with Gregg Gillis aka *Girl Talk* (http://www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic). more info