- Stephen Malkmus tells Amazon what he's listening to these days - Animal Collective, Sleater-Kinney, Dead Meadow, Hella, Kaiser Chiefs, Celtic Frost, and more.

- What's Stereogum's most embarrassing CD purchase? The Spin Doctors' Turn It Upside Down. What's mine? I'm sure I've made a few bad ones over the years, but I'm drawing a blank right now on anything beyond Live's Secret Samadhi - the rare record I actually enjoy hating - and the B-52's Good Stuff. Oh, and maybe the second Letters to Cleo album. (Is Good Stuff even embarrassing? Not a great album, but certainly a defendable purchase after Cosmic Thing.)

- Other Passengers really impressed me at February's Gothamist show, but I've unfortunately missed all their local shows since. I'm looking forward to finally catching them again tonight at Sin-e though. They're on at 10.

- Soul Jazz recently released Acid - Can You Jack?, a new double disc of classic Chicago house from the mid-80's. Read more about it here. I'm looking forward to hearing this. It has some tracks in common with last year's Trax Records 20th Anniversary anthology, which I loved.

- San Francisco's Broker/Dealer will be spinning at a loft party tomorrow night at 69 West 14th Street. They've done stuff for Traum and Ghostly International and their album is pretty good. Marcos Cabral and Audioelectronic are also on the bill - more details available here.

- Peephole celebrates the 10th anniversary of Blur's "legendary Mile End gig." In Damon Albarn's own words: "I'll tell you what's significant about that gig, it was the first time that lads and indie kids all went to a gig together. It was the beginning of that explosion."

- According to this Tiny Mixtapes story, the Coral Sea will be making their live debut next week at London's Meltdown Festival. Who's in the band? Just Chan Marshall, Kevin Shields, and Patti Smith. Not bad! But what will they sound like?

- Via Prefixblog, Whatevs lists every album rated a perfect 10.0 by Pitchfork - as well as nine records that earned the even more elusive 0.0.