The band Aeroplane Pageant and novelist, musician and Rumpus contributor Rick Moody have collaborated on a new version of a song from the band’s recent album, Float Above the Yard. Moody’s remix of the song “Big Little Wolfs” is ambient and drifting without being lulling, a place (near the docks) as much as a song. Have a listen here.

The song is also set to appear on Occupy This Album, which benefits OWS and also features music by Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Devo, Blondie, Michael Moore (!), Patti Smith, Ladytron, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Crosby and Nash, and others.

Well this is exciting! Carrie Brownstein’s memoir is making its way into the mediascape! She’s rocked us in Sleater-Kinney, The Spells and Wild Flag, broadcast hyperarticulations on her beloved Monitor Mix music culture blog, and wowed us with her comedic and improvisatory pizzazz on Portlandia. Will all of this and more fit in one memoir (even one reported to be about her life in music)? Stay tuned…

Wild Flag, S/T (Merge) / live at The Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 10/18/11

Eleanor Friedberger, best known as half of The Fiery Furnaces, sings the ultra-catchy, ’70s-damaged “My Mistakes.” …more

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Mirror Traffic (Matador) / live at Webster Hall, NYC, 9/25/11

“I’m also a Jick.”
—Stephen Malkmus, Amoeba Hollywood in-store appearance, 8/24/11

Mirror Traffic opens with a fake-out. …more