This audio clip comes by way of a friend from my junior high school days in Houston – thanks Scott!

The below image is borrowed from Google Books and best sets up this track – it’s taken from a book called Reveal: the story of REM by Johnny Black.

via YouTube.

Image from NPR.

Hear Dinosaur Jr. perform selections from Farm — along with an assortment of old favorites — in a full concert, webcast live on NPR Music this Thursday, Oct. 8. The show, from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club, will begin with an opening solo set by Lou Barlow at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET.

via Live Thursday: Dinosaur Jr. In Concert : NPR.

If you’re a Dinosaur Jr. fan, also don’t miss Lou Barlow’s Goodnight Unknown solo album, available for your listening pleasure in its entirety at NPR’s Exlcusive First Listen Series.

via YouTube.

Here’s a rather exceptional live TV performance of TMBG’s new song, Meet The Elements.

The Jimmy Fallon show video was removed from YouTube by the copyright police, so I’ve replaced that video with this live, first ever performance of Meet The Elements. These moving pictures were shot at an all ages show at the Union County Music Fest in Clark, New Jersey.

This remarkable cover medley by Hard ‘n Phirm entitled Rodeohead comes by way of my FriendFeed friend, aka Dead Silence.

The medley features the sounds of banjos, violins, a Jew’s harp, a steam locomotive whistle and a CB radio exchange.  Somehow, the Radiohead lyrics transform magically into the bluegrass style.

The Radiohead songs covered, in order of appearance are:

• Planet Telex
• 2+2=5
• No Surprises (Instrumental)
• Optimistic
• You And Whose Army
• Karma Police
• Knives Out
• Creep
• The National Anthem (Instrumental)
• Morning Bell
• Just (Brief Guitar Riff)
• Fake Plastic Trees
• Nice Dream
• Paranoid Android
• Subterranean Homesick Alien (Instrumental)

I found the MP3 source at larrysinger.com.

YouTube – Miracle Legion | All for the Best.

Here’s the original song by Mark Mulcahy and Miracle Legion which was recently covered by Thom Yorke and his brother Andy Yorke.

The cover by the Yorke brothers is part of a compilation album of songs, Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, which also features Dinosaur Jr. and Michael Stipe, among others.

The compilation has an impressive lineup, but the circumstances around it are heartbreaking: Almost a year after his wife Melissa died suddenly, 21 artists have contributed exclusive tracks to Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy to help the former Miracle Legion front man continue making music while he raises his three-year old twin daughters.

Above quote from Stereogum.

Dylan’s Christmas In The Heart due out on October 13 in the US.

See First Aid Kit at their MySpace page. You’ll find info on their UK tour there, as well.

You also might enjoy their cover of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song posted here at TSM.

via YouTube.

Exceptionally fine audio and Bono plays some guitar to the hometown audience, too. Great performance.

Photo: Corio/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty

Every year, that Pavement reunion rumor comes around, and every year it’s a load of hooey, right? Right. Until now. Because this time it’s true. Via an exclusive Rolling Stone interview, in a late-night call from Australia, Pavement guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg confirms that the Nineties’ finest indie rockers are finally going back to those gold soundz. “It’s been a long time coming,” Kannberg says. “I think in the back of our minds, we always thought we’d do something again. But we never really talked about it until the last couple of months. It’s come together fast.”

via rollingstone.com