Recently, the Tampa Bay Rays wore plaid blazers, or BRayzers, on a road trip.

Recently, Alan Cumming wore a plaid suit to the Creative Arts EMMYs.

Recently, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones went back on tour.

These can not all be a coincidence.

I saw Click Track refer to Cee Lo’s Fuck You as the song of the summer. I’d agree, but on the other hand, I don’t remember the last Song of the Summer I liked. Maybe it was that Kevin Costner song from Robin Hood.

Also, I finally had a reason to make a Keep Calm poster.

This list features 1000 Jazz standards. For some reason, the list is ranked, letting us know that while 1930’s Body and Soul is the number one Jazz standard, 1946’s To Each His Own is number 1000. How you quantify the 1000 top Jazz standards is so far beyond me, it’s on another blog, but these guys have done it.

Via Balloon Juice.

Not much to say, is there?

Juliana Hatfield takes the direct to fan model a little further.

For the price of $1,000, I will write an original song tailor-made just for you, to you and about you, and I will record it in the mostly acoustic style of my newest album, ‘Peace and Love,’.

She’s only doing 20 of these total, and $1K is pretty steep, so this doesn’t strike me as desperate.

via Folkinz

And you all just said, “Damn, I’m old.” There’s surprisingly little around the internet celebrating this anniversary, which is weird because Digital Underground released a new EP a couple weeks ago. Doesn’t anyone care?!

Via Agent M Loves Tacos

It’s not often that I command you to watch something, and it’s early yet, but this video has the potential to be David After The Dentist 2010. Same set up, father filming kid in car while driving. Who knew how badly this child wanted to be a Single Lady?

Via The Daily What and Ragamuffin

Oh man, this makes me giggle. Not sure where it came from. Does anyone know who the band is in the bottom picture?

In continuing my near breathless documentation of Chuck Klosterman’s online presence, here he is interviewing Stephen Malkmus from Pavement in GQ. Pavement is reuniting this year, which Zach Baron in Slate says marks “the end of baby boomer cultural hegemony“. This might not mark the end, and it might not even mark the middle of the end, but it might, perhaps, mark the beginning of the end, which I’m all for. Back to Klosterman on Malkmus:

In fact, he looks like someone playing Stephen Malkmus in an ill-conceived Cameron Crowe movie: He’s unshaven, he’s wearing Pony high-tops that no longer exist on the open market, and his baseball cap promotes the Silver Jews. His T-shirt features the logo of the Joggers, a Portland band whose greatest claim to fame is being mentioned in a GQ story about Stephen Malkmus eating at a Thai-sandwich shop.

It occurs to me that Klosterman is the best rock writer going right now, by which I mean he’s my favorite and I don’t read any others. Are there any others I should look in to? In any case, enjoy.

It’s not clear why this performance isn’t more heralded. Break My Stride was the first song I remember thinking of as my favorite song and it was on the radio incessantly when I would be riding in the car with my mom. But this video. Wow. It’s from Matthew Wilder’s appearance on Solid Gold, which explains the numerous backup dancers. But there’s absolutely no explanation for his crazy shirt. Also, the 3 keyboards? WHAT THE HELL DOES HE NEED 3 KEYBOARDISTS FOR? Anyway. Enjoy.

Fun fact, Matthew Wilder was the producer for No Doubt’s 1995 hit Tragic Kingdom. I wonder if he’s available for interviews. Or if he was in the No Doubt Behind the Music?