Are you jealous? If you have some spare time (25-30 minutes if you are fast) and stamina you can answer the 65 multiple-choice questions (sorry but this is a serious maybe even scientific exercise) of the Jealousy test. In fact some of those questions consist of several sub-questions so that there are probably close to a 100 questions altogether! My lowest score was a 16/100 in jealous behaviour and my highest was 28/100 concerning dependency issues. I am not really a jealous guy.

Lost in cyberspace

• Sonic Youth article in the LA New Times on their status as indie rock's foremost band (via stevie nixed blog). On their site they announce that they have finished their new album with Jim O'Rourke which is due June 6th. I am less excited than ten years ago but I feel that they can still have a surprise in store.
• Great long artist-by-artist account by Jeff LeVine from lost for life on the four days of the All Tomorrow's Parties stretch at UCLA. Sonic Youth had chosen the bands and closed the festival on Sunday. Cat Power was out of herself again.
• Music blog by Mike with a wide spectrum from prog to indie via alt.country: troubled diva. Mike wrote on 40 episodes of his life during the last 40 days before his 40th birthday, a great feat I'd like to repeat. Luckily I have another year to think about it: 40 in 40 days project
• Hydragenic is a very well written relatively new blog by someone who fights with nicotine as well and who choose "what doesn't destroy me, makes me stronger" as motto (all three via wherever you are)
• Stevie Nixed succinct listening log
• Another fine music blog oriented towards indie: e-moo-la-tion
• Tiny mixtapes like the latest A Silver Mt Zion... (8.9)
• Ryan Adams the ingenious rock'n roll chamaelon in a short interview with the NME (via badger). What to think of this: he just covered the Strokes album as a blues record. Soon Ryan will have more albums in his drawer than will ever be released during his lifetime. At least he is not too full of himself: he labelled his output to date as "a bunch of singer/songwriter crap".
• Encyclopedia of Percussion via ILM