Weekende Stuffe.

2. Noz from Cocaine Blunts is featuring an extended Spice 1 mix. Growing up, Spice and Too Short were frequently featured on my Walkman headphones on the way to school, particularly the eponymous 2nd album from the former (one of my all-time hip-hop favorites) and Shorty the Pimp and Get in Where You Fit In from the latter. I still know all 8 minutes of “No Love From Oakland” by heart, I swear. The highlight of this mix is Spice’s best track, “Peace to My Nine”.

3. And Riff riffs on Noz’s possible reasons for his published dislike of Gnarls Barkley.

4. Young Matthew features a (piano/guitar-laden) new track from marathonpacks favorite Of Montreal.

5. Andy Beta tribs his former editor, the wrongly dismissed (from the quickly sinking Village Voice) and generally great Chuck Eddy, with among others, the marvelous “The Mexican” from Babe Ruth.

6. It’s long-overdue that I publicly recommend the learned old dudes over at Little Hits–they’re far and away the best place to go for a glimpse into 70’s and 80’s rock arcana, related with a keen and well-remembered knack for what it was like actually witnessing something called a “regional hit” or listening to a “local FM station.” It’s a format that’s all-too-rare in music blogs–rock recollection.

7. This clip. It’s great at first look because, well, it’s Bowie and Marc Bolan on stage together, from Bolan’s very short-lived Granada TV show Marc in 1977. It’s great because they’re getting ready to play a song they’d written together right before the show (called “Standing Next to You”) and as Bowie moves up to the mic to begin the lyrics, Bolan just falls off the fucking stage. Up the logo, cue the commercials. It’s funny for a minute, until you realize that like three days later, Bolan would die in a car accident, rendering this public moment his last. Which then just gives the clip a completely different feel.