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Here are some recent music related links:

• My friends in the band Mind Eraser now have a blog to keep people updated on what they are doing. There is a post with upcoming shows and another with downloads of some of their non-record recordings, live material and other errata.

• Carrie Brownstein from the bands Sleater Kinney and Excuse 17 now has a blog up on the National Public Radio website.

• Unite Web Zine has interviews posted with Gavin Van Vlack formerly of bands like Absolution, Burn, Side By Side, and Die 116. Gavin is one of the nicest guys I have met through hardcore. The Absolution demo tape is one of my favorite music recordings of any genre.

• Unite also recently interviewed my good friend Tim McMahon, primarily about his time in the band Mouthpiece and growing up in Trenton.

• Finally, over at The Guardian is a review of the new reissue box set of Miles Davis’ classic On The Corner album.

I am not a huge fan of NPR, but I am enjoying their newish Jazz Profiles series. Over the weekend I listened to the two podcasts about Miles Davis. The first is called Miles’ Styles and is more of an overview of his career. The other focuses on his album Kind Of Blue.

Checking these podcasts out also led me to two other features on Davis that NPR has done which focuses on two of my favorite albums: Sketches Of Spain and In A Silent Way.

I am going to try out a new feature. Lately, I have been listening to a lot of podcasts. Each week I will post a “best of” from what I have checked out the previous week, similar to my weekend reading posts.

So, week one:

• Net At Nite interviews Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia.

• Something I Learned Today just started podcasting. Their first podcast focused on Boston hardcore. A second podcast is also online.

• All Go No Slow! recently did a full set of anti Ronald Reagan songs. It is quite refreshing, in the age of “conservative punks” and the rightward dive a lot of the hardcore scene seems to be heading towards, to see someone do a great set like this. Sadly, I bet the current generation of ragers don’t even know about a lot of the fucked up shit that went on in the eighties. If you asked them what Oi Polloi’s Hands Off Nicaragua was about, they’d probably have no idea.

• To celebrate Henry Rollins’ birthday (46!), Harmony In My Head did a set filled with a lot of old hardcore songs and other cool stuff.

• The other day, I caught up on the HIMH broadcast from early August also. Henry spends the first hour playing and discussing the music of Miles Davis. An hour of Miles Davis: it doesn’t get much better than that.