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Bad news: as of this post, the website that hosts our blogroll (blogrolling.com) is down. I stupidly don't have any of my favorite blogs bookmarked, depending only on the links on SoD to read them. So instead of going down the blogroll list, I went through Hype Machine. I vow to bookmark all my fave blogs from now on.

Fellow L.A. bloggers Rollo & Grady have live covers of Radiohead by Paradigm, some Beatles covers, plus J. Tillman and much, much more.

We Like It Indie features a write-up about The Graduate, who we interviewed back in 2007. The band is re-releasing their debut Anhedonia and embarking on tour in November. Check 'em out!

Inkiostro, a music blog in Italian (?), has a lovely cover of Arcade Fire's "My Body Is A Cage" by Sara Lov.

Thanks Captain Obvious brings good stuff as always, including new Decemberists and a review of the new Annuals EP.

Soundbites saw Franz Ferdinand live this week (I'm horribly jealous).

Berkeley Place shares some covers by Rademacher of Whitney Houston and Talking Heads, and a cover of Whitney Houston by David Byrne of Talking Heads.

arcade fire: wake up [live KCRW 2005] [buy]
the decemberists: human behavior [bjork cover] [buy]
franz ferdinand: walk away (acoustic) [buy]
talking heads: psycho killer [live 1977] [buy]

Find more on Hype Machine.