Bloggy Goodness: Sonic Youth Goes Starbucks

I’m going to leave it up to the snarky hipster blogs to pass judgment on Sonic Youth for releasing their new “greatest hits” album – Hits For Squares – exclusively at Starbucks stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. (as well as online).

That’s not really the story here, it’s actually the fact that the tracks on the album were handpicked by an interesting mix of musicians, actors and writers, who also wrote about their selections in the liner notes. Among those contributed to the compilation are Beck, David Cross, and Catherine Keener.

• WNEW lists Lesser Known Classic Rock Albums That Need Some Love
• PotW ongoing Beards, Blazers & Glasses series takes a look at The Kills
• Uncensored Interview picks their favorite indie-music and lifestyles sites, and would ya look at who made number three
• Beana over at RD shares some great pictures from Ween’s Europe tour
• Find out why Ben Kweller could have saved music in 2002
• Vulture is in search of this summer’s Umbrella – nominees so far include songs from Usher, Estelle, Leona Lewis & N.E.R.D.
• Ear Farm’s Band of the Week is D.C.’s own These United States

Finally, with Bonnaroo less than a month away the rumors are already swirling about possible sit-ins that could take place on the multitude of stages in Manchester. The latest comes from Consequence of Sound who points to a recent Billboard article where Pearl Jam’s Mike McCreedy drops a hint that he’d love to have Jack White join them on stage during their Saturday night headlining set.