>> Last Night on Late Night: Frances Bean Cobain’s fiancee’s band The Eeries did “Cool Kid” on Meyers, Jackson Browne did “The Birds of St. Marks,” a song he wrote in 1967 when he was 18, and interweb music exclusive “These Days,” a song he wrote in 1965 when he was 16(no biggie), Carrie Underwood talked to giggle boy Jimmy Fallon about her American Idol Journal and then stuck around to do “Something in The Water,” and Kennedy Center honoree and goddamn American treasure Al Green did “Tired of Being Alone > Let’s Stay Together” on Letterman.
>> “Ariana Grande comes up and stands up next to me and just looks at me and goes, ‘I love big black balls.’ In my head I was like, ‘If she knows what that means then I love her, and if she doesn’t know what that means, it’s even better!” ~ Ed Sheeran
>> Full Stream Ahead: Charli XCX, Sucker, Temple Invisible, Enter_ EP, Brika, Voice Memos, Bonus: Grateful Dead, Winterland 6.9.77
>> Release the Lists: The Bitter Southerner names the Best Southern Albums of 2014, NPR names their 50 favorite Albums of 2014, CoS names their Top 5 Music Videos of 2014 (Not on that list: Wardell’s “Funny Thing” and U2’s “Sleep Like a Baby, Tonight”) and Buzzed names the 16 Greatest Movie Music Moments Of 2014.
>> The Coveteur takes some pictures of Sky Ferreira and some of her stuff.
>> http://www.fastcompany.com/3038629/how-a-member-of-blink-182-is-secretly-changing-the-music-business
>> The Village Voice on Smashing Pumpkins: “The show felt like a transaction, and Corgan wanted to make sure we got our money’s worth.”
>> Chuck Klosterman talks to Jimmy Page about reverse echo, The Song Remains the Same, Elvis and much much less.
>> Justin Bleacher