• This Friday, the 28th of April, go to Neil Young's website and stream his anticipated new album, Living With War. The site currently has lyrics to five songs at this page. And did you know there's a Living With War blog?

• Jody Rosen on Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome, an album of Pete Seeger covers: "The new Bruce Springsteen album is his best in a more than a decade. It's also the first for which he hasn't composed a single song. These two phenomena, sorry to say, are not unrelated." Coolfer has heard the same from many Springsteen non-fans. (Slate.com)

• The Freep reviews "High Tech Soul," a documentary about the early Detroit techno scene and its founders, Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. (Detroit Free Press, via Danceblogga)