Recent odds and ends...

• A nice review of Marvin Lin's 33 1/3 on Radiohead's Kid A in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

"Marvin Lin's Kid A works well as a wide-ranging look at music, art, and life as seen through Radiohead's album for those who understand music can be more than just music."

• The new music blog Synconation covers the Kid A and Kate Schatz's 33 1/3 on P.J. Harvey's Rid of Me in what we hope will be an ongoing feature.

• Joe Bonomo's 33 1/3 on AC/DC's Highway to Hell was Outsideleft's pick for music book of the year.
  

• Watch this space for an excerpt from Rob Trucks' recently published volume on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. In the meantime, you can check out the electronic preview on this page.

• Here's a nice long interview with Bryan Charles about his new novel. Incidentally, he also wrote the book about Pavement's Wowee Zowee.

• Which leads me to post a picture of this fantastic Pavement cake, shaped like a horse. This episode of Ace of Cakes airs tonight apparently.

My goodness, that looks like good fun.