This week, in the Merc…

Lizzie Ehrenhalt has a great chat with Beth Ditto of The Gossip, which touches on their popularity across the pond and the whole major label thing.
Oh wow, it’s Beth and Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp! OMG!! WTF!!!) covering Temptation at the NME Awards.

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Baltimore’s Arboretum keeps rocking the free world with their spirtual Neil Young-isms. Plus, they totally have Will Oldham on speed-dial.
Here is Tonight’s A Jewel from their Rites Of Uncovering album.

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In an effort to extinguish my indie cred, alienate my few remaining friends and double my impressive stack of hate mail, I write about Brand New. I just hope that this article doesn’t ruin my MySpace Top 8 standing.
I chose the emoist (totes a real word) song for you to listen to. Degausser
Done? Ok, you can start with the Haterade. Just keep my “daddy”out of it. Not cool.