Some good pieces about music at salon.com:


Doug Sahm's last record
and

Nick Drake's post-posthumous fame
(Revelatory line: "Drake's music is almost unbelievably pure, graceful and powerful; hearing 30 seconds of his voice and guitar playing in an ad for a car has inspired tens of thousands of people to buy his records.")


Some of my friends are upset that our special little artists are finding fame. I'm sad that it didn't (couldn't?) happen while they lived. On my planet, Nick Drake and Doug Sahm are the co-writers of the goddamned national anthem.