Guardian Music — The Monks had tonsures and cowls. Gonn performed beneath a swastika. But both embody the strange and continuing appeal of garage punk. Alexis Petridis reportsIn the late 1980s, Eddie Shaw was at home in Carson City, Nevada, when two strangers knocked... more info

On Friday in Carnegie Hall, Simon Rattle led the Philadelphia Orchestra in an account of ?La Damnation de Faust? that proved that Berlioz?s writing needs no visual enhancement. more info

The Culture Of Me — Soundslags, a team of kids who hail from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (a place in the world that our typical American educational black holes forced us to Google) and who happened to have dropped a ridiculously sweet bomb on our minds thi... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — I put this WDR German TV clip up a couple years ago as a download on Beware of the Blog, but figured I'd repost since I just noticed via Boing Boing that someone had You Tubeized it for easier viewing.... more info

Idolator — Everyone at Idolator has their own personal obsessions. Maura loves freestyle and she has an inexplicable boner for Fall Out Boy. Dan digs on trucker tunes and hates on the Welsh. Me? I love the various artists collection. The compilation album. The ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The blockbuster vampire flick Twilight hits stores tomorrow in a relatively slow week for DVD releases.. The Murnau box set collects six classic 1920's films (Nosferatu, Faust, The Last Laugh, Tartuffe, The Haunted Castle, The Finances of the Grand..... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The blockbuster vampire flick Twilight hits stores tomorrow in a relatively slow week for DVD releases.. The Murnau box set collects six classic 1920's films (Nosferatu, Faust, The Last Laugh, Tartuffe, The Haunted Castle, The Finances of the Gr... more info

Associated Press — NEW YORK (AP) -- Historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust has won a $50,000 prize from the New York Historical Society for "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War."... more info

My Old Kentucky — The Buffet Libre DJs have released a REWIND II Mixtape free for your downloading pleasure. We've been in love with this project since REWIND I, but REWIND II was so amazing, it will be hard to ever top. REWIND II was more covers focused, but this m... more info

Mojo 4 Music — Ryan Adams quits music?! New Faust album! Macca vs Howard Stern! more info