Monday’s Hors d’Oeuvres

Welcome to another short week — as usual, we’ll kick it off with some links to interesting shit from around the information superhighway:

• Billboard posts a look ahead at Robert Plant’s 2007, which includes recording with Allison Krauss and a Honeydrippers reunion
• Here’s a cool preview of this weekend’s American Beauty Project
• R.I.P. Michael Brecker and Alice Coltrane
• JamBase presents a “What I did on my vacation”-type piece on Jam Cruise (also, SuperDee has a number of links to Jam Cruise photo albums)
• Trey Anastasio’s smallest audience ever may be his most important
• A look behind the scenes at Musictoday
• The Smithereens pay tribute to Meet The Beatles
• Gomez and Ben Kweller are heading out on the road together
• The genre-defying Spank Rock take a shot at Lindsay Lohan (NWS)
• Keller Williams debunked the rumor he would be taking over for Bill Nershi in String Cheese on his recent appearance on Sirius
• The Chicago Sun-Times looks at the unclear future for brick-and-mortar record stores (via large hearted boy)
• The Highline Festival is coming to New York’s West Side
• Rock Music Daily serves up some great Rolling Stones live tracks from 1978

Did you have a good weekend? Are you off for Martin Luther King day? Do tigers live in lily patches? Any left ear aches this morning? Do tell.