O, Song! Daily Links

Justin Bieber loves Metallica; Hitler’s hot jazz band; Amanda Palmer and your money; Jack White interviewed by Buzz Aldrin; is ‘Call Me Maybe’ the year’s best pop song?; Whitney Houston’s troubled life; the rise of the female rappers; Simon Reynolds talks to Greil Marcus for ages.

Would you trade your life for that of your musical doppelganger?; Dan Wilson talks about writing ‘Someone Like You’; Kevin Shields talks My Bloody Valentine and sampling; the mail order catalogue that made guitars the most popular instrument in the world; the opulence of modern day hip-hop; Graveyard Train’s fine line between silly and profound; Prince’s Kiss and why it’s amazing; and Barney Hoskyns on Booker T & The MGs (RIP Duck Dunn).

What does it mean that Gotye and fun are atop the US charts?; Chuck Klosterman sees Creed and Nickelback in the one night; Nicki Minaj versus pushy journalist; does Jack White have a problem with women?; Kraftwerk operate their machines in museums of modern art these days; Don Walker talks about Kings Cross; sometimes reading about music is more fun than listening to music; and why Levon Helm hated The Last Waltz.

Containing links to John Harris’s interview of Damon Albarn where he shockingly says Blur and Gorillaz are over, and even more shockingly is now friends with Noel Gallagher; a New York Times profile of Jack White where he’s delightfully odd; hiphop and Trayvon Martin; decoding Beyonce’s tumblr; Carl Wilson on Celine Dion in light of Titanic 3D; A Night At The Opera with Queen; Liz Phair and Beth Cosentino et al on their first experiences of love and sex; Zach Baron on the Mountain Goats and Tallahassee.

The Australian Tyler The Creator; the story of Suzi Quatro’s first band, the Pleasure Seekers, Johnny Ramone on Johnny Ramone; is Nicki Minaj the most influential female rapper of all time? (I was astonished the article didn’t mention Missy Elliott); Graham Coxon’s odd mix of maturity and childlikeness; the sound of Abbey Road; the rise and fall of Jet; Fiona Apple and the politics of oversharing.

That amazing New Yorker article about Stargate and Ester Dean; SXSW converts boredom into tweets?; inside the K-Pop factory; Bluejuice frontman not happy chappy; Emily Mackay is sick of over-the-top popism; the Australian live music scene - healthy?; indie labels changed the world; Pitchfork review One Direction.

Daphne Carr on why Skrillex is kinda punk; the world’s first rock and roll concert was a disaster!; Fiona Apple blows Nitsuh Abebe’s mind; Drake tries to pick up a journalist; Mark Richardson on why being male means you unthinkingly identify with male music; the Necks on why they do what they do; and David Grossman on how having Aspergers changes how he listens to Guided By Voices.

at TheVine I link to the following articles:

Was Elvis’s Colonel Parker a killer on the lam?; Maura Johnston’s excellent guide to how not to write about female musicians (still good a month later!); Alexis Petridis thinks British pop/rock is less gay than it used to be; Jonathan Bogart argues for the lost art of pop-rap, MC Hammer style; Jim Keays on his life as a Masters Apprentice; Nitsuh Abebe interviews Bjork; Madonna’s ‘Girls Gone Wild’ evokes dread, bewilderment; and Sally O’Rourke on the Beatles’ Help.

Gotye on the incorrect grammar of the ‘Hearts A Mess’ (and, actually lots more); Adele on why she’s giving up sad songs, apparently; the tycoon of “turbo-folk”; who the HELL is Bob Lefsetz?; Chris Brown deserves no pity; Field Music on why they’re OK with making no money; who actually listens to those compilation CDs and thinks, “now, that’s what I call music?”; and why rockism is killing rock.