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Alright folks - we're done for the weekend. See you at the showcase! We also recommend: KEXP Showcase including Wild Yaks tonight @ Europa FREE WILLIAMSBURG SHOWCASE tonight including These Are Powers @ Death by Audio POP TARTS SUCK TOASTED : tonight with 12 bands! At Public Assembly The L Magazine 8 Bands to Watch: 3-5 tomorrow at Spike Hill @ 1 THE MUSIC SLUT : Sunday @ Trash Bar including Pow Wow! [...]

We know that certain biases can nullify your jury-selection-status, but what if you threaten Twitter? Matt explores his options this morning as he awaits jury seeding, serving his public duty to America. His presence will be missed and blogging will decrease as I will be traveling, and he will be courting. Andrew, here's looking at you! Obviously we are joking (not about jury duty, but rather Twitter.) Hey, crazier things have happened .

Hitting stores Oct. 21, All Aboard: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, calls upon the southern-rock elite, or soon-to-be elite, to add a gritty, modern- rusticity to Cash classics. Members of the Hold Steady, Lucero, Gaslight Anthem and more, combine to reinvent these timeless tunes the best they can. Follow the link below to preview two tracks from the album. www.myspace.com/weareanchorles srecords . Track list in its entirety after the jump. 1. Man In Black: The Bouncing Souls 2. Country Boy: Fallen From The Sky [...]

TV on the Radio's Dear Science was recently released to much acclaim. The album's third track "Dancing Choose" lets listeners know that this record is going to be danceable, repeatable, and any other "able" adjectives you can imagine. The video above does well to depict what may be going on in the heads of TVOTR personnel while writing a song such as "Dancing Choose." Weird geometric shapes, eyes and question marks double as human heads while mingling among psychedelic backdrops --the video is heavy on M.C. Escher influences with floating [...]

(Photo: www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny /original/15_sasha_lgl.jpg ) We came across an interesting interview with New Yorker music critic, Sasha Frere -Jones. Hosting a New Yorker dance party on Friday, NY's Gothamist posted up with Frere -Jones to get his thoughts on the event, his current musical tastes and music making with Ui . Most interesting, to Stark at least, were Frere -Jones' "Best of 2008" picks [...]

(The Inquisition is the fancy- shmancy name we've given to our interviews on Stark.) STARK VS. EZRA FURMAN Stark recently spoke with Ezra Furman about his to-be-released album, Inside the Human Body ( Oct. [...]

Get it here. It is a simple point-and-click here people. Type your name and a valid email address, pledge that you will vote (for the right person hopefully) and download away. The tune you receive, a cover of " I Shall Be Released ," (Stark feature anyone? Ha!) conjures up images of a packed Winterland Ballroom, a stage full of music icons, and Bob Dylan in all his glory. Wilco and Fleet Foxes do the tune justice -- layered harmonies seem to be this year's big cheese and both the aforementioned artists know how [...]

Stupid sexist Democrats Jason Isbell - "The Devil is My Running Mate" - mp3 Former Drive by Trucker Jason Isbell didn't really write this song for John McCain. Yet, while Stark usually likes to stay non-partisan on our site, there are some non-music issues (ie. Tom Brady and Sarah Palin) that arise such ire in us, that we are forced to vent via blog post. So we decided to offer up the track "The Devil is My Running Mate" that we dedicate to John McCain. This song comes [...]

• Jason Isbell - The Devil Is My Running Mate