• It's CMA time, and with it comes a really good article on the life and times of Cliff Cody and other songwriters trying to earn a living in Nashville. (Read article at The Columbus Dispatch)

• Keven Federline's show at NYC's Webster Hall (capacity 1,600) pulled in an estimated 100 paying customers. At least there were no lines at the bars. (Read post and view pictures at Stereogum)

• The trend at this year's CMJ? Newsday says it was "a continuing drift toward dance music, or anything even vaguely danceable." (Read article at Newsday)

• Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings will have the soundtrack to the upcoming, seven-part Ken Burns documentary, "The War." (Read press release)

• An interview with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, The Evens). (Read post at Gothamist)