• The Village Voice dedicated a full page to The Willowz. Joe Levy has his finger on the pulse of a band that's not easy to pin down. "Their songs are as much shapes as tunes, short but not easily summarized. This is not the sound of a style or a time. It's more the sound of a place: the sprawl of suburban Los Angeles, where they grew up." The Willowz: Highly recommended by Joe Levy and Coolfer. Check the Coolfer picks of the band's most recent New York show.

• Man rocks to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at the South Street Seaport. (Quicktime, via The Morning News) Video of the year.

• Stream the a new stellastarr* song single "The Driver" in RA lo or RA hi.

• The SF Weekly has the (allegedly) first ever "Ask A Music Blogger" Q&A session to make it to print. Best album of the year thus far? We're told it's The Hold Steady's Separation Sunday. Song of the Year? Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl." Surprises this year? Lack of Stateside support for many U.K. aritsts. (Note: Most mentioned do not have U.S. releases to support. That explains that.) Yep, sounds like a music blogger! We're all alike, aren't we?

• The Rebirth Of Cool. (The Jewish Week) Irving Fields' 1959 album "Bagels & Bongos" will be re-released next week by Reboot Stereophonic, "a new label dedicated to resurrecting the forgotten classics of Jewish music."

• Hell's Angels. (Pitch Weekly) Flee the Seen took home three awards at the Pitch Music Awards in Kansas City: Best Female Vocalist, Best Punk and Best New Act. The female-fronted band has opened for Alkaline Trio, Weezer, Cake, Death By Stereo and many others. It's got one album out but no agent, no major deal in the works and not much press. Oh, and like Sufjan Stevens, Flee the Seen is a Christian band, though "it's not the right-wing overzealousness that can alienate as many fans as it attracts.

• Band name battle would be comical, if it wasn't serious. (Queensland News) What a pun. It seems Archie Comics Publications has sued The Veronicas and Warner Music Group.