Stereogum — The great Andy Baio of waxy.org has painstakingly compiled metadata on Girl Talk's latest sample party, using Wiki and Amazon's Mechanical Turk, to create downloadable spreadsheets for your trendspotting pleasure. Go play. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Neal/Getty Dolly Parton extends her Backwoods Tour, Jack’s Mannequin bring The Glass Passenger on an autumn run and Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) continues to Feed the Animals. Follow the jump for the complete set of tour dates. Dolly Pa... more info

A Walking Disast3r — This weekend's Monolith Festival will include it's share of corporate ectasy that has become a staple at all major music festivals across the country. Dell has partnered up with the Monolith Music Festival to give festival go'ers a unique and exciti... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — From RAC/Andrew Maury's blog:Back in February of this year, Ra Ra Riot came through Syracuse to play a show, stay at my place, and hang out. Being a Syracuse band and friends of mine from playing some shows together a few years ago, they come back â... more info