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Visit The Yellow Stereo for his Daily Graboid, always a source of great new music this week.

The Vinyl District waxes on about Elliott Smith's timeless masterpiece album, Either/Or, which contains a song with great personal meaning for me, "Between the Bars".

One of the newer sites on our blogroll, but one that I read faithfully each week, Thanks Captain Obvious celebrates his blog's first birthday. And a blog that's been on our blogroll almost since the beginning, Lonesome Music turns four!! We'll be celebrating our 2-year blogiversary in a couple of weeks...

Rawkblog has a bunch of great stuff this week, including a link to Wilco live at Lollapalooza, pics from the American Apparel flea market (that I was supposed to go to but didn't), photos from Ravens & Chimes, and a commentary on the upcoming Pitchfork book.

Music for Kids... has photos and reviews of Lollapalooza, plus a collection of his really nice concert photography on flickr.

And finally, in honor of his birthday on Wednesday, I bring you some of my beloved Elliott Smith tracks:

elliott smith: between the bars (either/or sessions) [buy]
elliott smith: color bars [buy]
elliott smith: pretty (ugly before) [live 2000] [buy]
elliott smith: supersonic [live oasis cover]
elliott smith: needle in the hay [live 1996] [buy]
elliott smith: my sweet lord [live george harrison cover]