• A librarian at the Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, PA, happened across "one of the most important musicological finds in years" while cleaning out an archival closet: a working manuscript of Beethoven's "Grosse Fugue" written in his own hand. It will go on display today only, then Sotheby's in London will auction it on December 1st.

• What's going on in the music blogosphere? Stereogum has a roundup to save the rest of us the time of checking the blogroll. Today's features: Another Sufjan Stevens link, a nod to Music For Robots and a few Mason Proper MP3s.

• Big Star biography reviewed. Sounds like it's better than the band's recent album.

• In Today's RollingStone.com "In Brief" column (the blog post with no hyperlinks or paragraph returns) there's news about Jessica Simpson's new album. Originally scheduled for a November release, it's been pushed to early spring.

• Creem interviews The Secret Machines.

• The Strokes' new video for "Juicebox" will be "controversial" says singer Julian Casablancas, recounted here at FMBQ which quotes an MTV.com article. "There might be full-frontal nudity. MTV will not play this video because's it's so controversial, (but) it will be groundbreaking." Who knows? MTV just might play it such a statement is taken as a dare. It viewed The Prodigy's "Smach My Bitch Up" afterhours when it was released to great controversy. I remember Kurt Loder giving the video a self-serving, over-dramatic introduction as if MTV owed it to the country to play the thing.