Pitchfork has the first mp3 from Okkervil River’s upcoming Stage Names:

::: Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe :::

…William Schaff has photos of the album artwork he embroidered for the new record over at his Flickr.

“The natural unit of music is track.“ No, it’s not.

Save Net Radio. Blah blah blah royalties, blah blah blah government, etc. etc.– listen, just go here: SAVENETRADIO.ORG.

And finally, we bid a fond farewell to 2.3% of Catbirdseat’s monthly readership, as we have just received the dubious honor of (for the second time in 5 years) being deleted from Stereogum’s blogroll. I guess we should have done more pro-Phil Collins posts.