Emperor X is weird in the best way possible. See him for free this Saturday afternoon, June 28th (and get free MP3s of “Spieltier” and “Raytrancer”):

Your SAK correspondent’s disparate musings on Girl Talk’s Feed The Animals are now up at The New York Press site.

But they don’t have forever / To blog for you, yeah / But when they say they want / This column to be clever / It’s cause they need a word / They can rhyme with “Forever”

Your SAK correspondent wants you to go Bowery Ballroom on Friday.

One more reason being famous sucks.

Your SAK correspondent suspects you think he shouldn’t even have been at last Sunday’s Beirut show in the first place, and consequently have no right to complain (not about the show, but about the fans and the wide reach of the blog[s] that brought them there). To each indie snob his own, then.

Your SAK correspondent’s latest edition of Someone’s Listening In retakes the reigns of the downloading debate from the easily-distracted Chuck Klosterman. Give it a look, then delete your Limewired MP3 collection.

Your SAK correspondent told you about the So So Glos already, but in case y’all was sleepin’, this week’s column clamps it down, 750-words style.

BONUS: Read our west coast SAK correspondent’s take on an entirely different city’s punk princes: The Black Lips, over at Crawdaddy!

The latest installment of your SAK correspondent’s New York Press column, Someone’s Listening In, hits the stands/web today. Read about white men who love white men making African pop here.

Your SAK correspondent covered this year’s musical madness in Austin on behalf of the New York Press. (Almost) daily blog posts, joyfully coming undone as the week progresses and the free beer sinks in, are here: Wednesday I was holding it together; Thursday got a little sloppy; Friday nearly killed me; and Saturday is MIA (such is the way music festivals go, friends).

Everything, of course, was handily wrapped up (and sponsor scrutinized) in the latest installment of Someone’s Listening In.

As photos are uploaded and de-red-eyed, look for more SXSW reflections in the coming the weeks. Here’s a taste of Lightspeed Champion: