• Ian Brown (ex-Stone Roses) talks to The Guardian.

"Through those years, he says, he was always sure the Roses would make it. Why? 'Because I knew we loved music and I knew what time of day it was, and I knew Bono was faking. He's such a fake, isn't he? When he did Live Aid which made them a worldwide group and he looked out and seen that black girl in the middle of all them people, and she's from Hackney or something, and he was like, "Here's a great shot for me around the world to show I'm Mr Africa". It's like colonialist times with a big white hat.'"

• DCist's interview with Eric Hilton (pictured) of Thievery Corporation.

"Honestly, we have pretty simple criteria: no tobacco, fast food, soda, defense contractors, corporate media giants, or energy companies. We have licensed a song once to a big bank; that was probably crossing the line."

• Bob Mould speaks with The Onion's AV Club.

"I'm not 23. I'm not fucked out of my head on alcohol. I'm in a different place in my life, and my music is a reflection of who I am right now. I think I've gotten good with all of that stuff, and I can have a good laugh with all of that now."

• For Pitchfork, Matthew Perpetua (a.k.a. Fluxblog) interviewed Carl Newman of the New Pornographers.

"It sounds really pretentious to say that our album is about the hero's journey, but I think a lot of this record as well as the other records, is just about ways of seeing the world, and the bizarre filters we have. I called the album Twin Cinema because I was thinking of the disconnect between the way we see the world and the way the world actually is."