Weekly Linkup: A Look Back (Disturbing Mom Songs, Wilco, MMW, Lethem on _Fear of Music_, Rock Autobi

Grace Beehler on May 14, 2012

Here’s your chance to catch up on recent stories and sundry musical tidbits…The LA Times asks why we still have so much vinyl when there’s streaming services out there

Paste rounds up seven songs inspired by The Beach Boys

In honor of Mother’s Day, Flavorwire finds ten songs about mothers

The Boston Globe interviews Justin Townes Earle

The Birmingham News profiles Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy

The New York Times reviews Medeski Martin & Wood at the Undead Music Festival

Relix.com muses about protest music

The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones remembers the Beastie Boys Adam Yauch

Jambands.com interviews Marc Brownstein of the Disco Biscuits and Conspirator

NPR discusses the new book in the 33 1/3 series, each inspired by and discussing a classic album, this time: The Talking Heads’ Fear of Music written by Jonathan Lethem

A huge archive of American folk music makes its online debut

Hidden Track rounds up ten rock autobiographies they’d like to read