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See what tracks people most delete from their last.fm profiles.

Download the new live album from the newest incarnation of Vigilantes of Love.

Browse Yahoo’s collection of music rumors.

Read this piece wondering if the RIAA will sue Facebook.

Read Christianity Today’s review of Death by Love.

Read the A.V. Club’s interview with The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy.

Read the A.V. Club’s review of A New Tide, the new album from Gomez.

Read as Booker T. Jones explains the choice of the Drive-By Truckers as the backing band on his new album.

Read this interview with the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn about the role of faith in his songwriting.

Browse this list of albums that work best from start to finish.

Read as the New York Times reports that Google is offering links to free music downloads in China.

Who wants to go see a musical based on Green Day’s American Idiot? No one? Too bad.

Read as Baltimore Magazine tries to understand the album art for Bob Dylan’s upcoming release.

See musician portraits made from cassette tapes.

Download sermons from “The Dr.,” Martin Lloyd-Jones for free.

Read Doug Wilson’s thoughts on Fireproof, including this great section: “If I set myself to think of couples in marriages that I think would be greatly helped by watching this movie, I would run out of fingers inside of a minute. I can also think of Christians who would be offended by the schlock, but many of them would be those who know more about how a movie ought to be made than about how a woman ought to be treated. And they would rather watch a movie about a woman being abused so long as the movie was made right than to have the woman treated right in a movie that offended their refined sensibilities. So which is the altar and which is the sacrifice?”

Read Glide’s interview with jazz guitarist John Scofield about his new blues album, Piety Street.

Read Jerry Falwell’s last interview.

Read about the Norwegian church that baptized an infant in lemon soda.

Read “Relevant’s” review of the latest from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

Browse this list of 10 things to consider for your church website.

Watch Pitchfork’s interview with U2.

Check out this very realisitc Joker action figure.

See the new PBS logo and the thinking behind it.

Browse this list of 5 kinds of people to avoid on Twitter.

Compare/contrast this list of characteristics of “traditional,” “contemporary” and “missional” churches.

Read as Russell Moore wonders which should be read first: The Magician’s Nephew or The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

Read this post wondering if NewsCorp. is buying Twitter.