A coupla quick things for you on this beautiful/ugly Tuesday afternoon.

1. We here at Willamette Week run on the LeVar Burton system: We think exposing you to as many viewpoints as possible is a good thing. Which is why we thought we’d direct you to two album reviews over on one of our favorite blogs, Tiny Mix Tapes. The TMT crew reviewed two local albums that our own Michael Mannheimer recently tackled in WW. Here’s Tiny Mix Tapes on Tara Jane Oneil’s A Ways Away and Starfucker’s Jupiter. They liked both records.

2. Stephen Malkmus and the Shins (or as Michael now calls them, “James Mercer and the Lolly Pops”—god, we’re never getting a Mercer interview ever…) played some new songs in the last week.

First up, here’s the Shins playing “Double Bubble” in Hollywood (via You Ain’t No Picasso):

And here’s Malk at Doug Fir doing a song about Senators and blowjobs:

aaaand while we’re at it, the Jicks’ cover of “Love Train”:

And, just for fun, Rick Emerson interviewing Chris Cornell.

Yup. That’s that.

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