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After listening to his new album, Tearing Sky, one imagines Piers Faccini as a man who moves in slow, deliberate motion. But this is not shoe-gazing music. The songs flow ever outward, picking up in tempo and energy for dramatic effect as needed, but maintaining a steadiness of hand throughout.

The arrangements have an acoustic folk/world feel, fleshed out with a small ensemble of talented and versatile musicians. However, the focus is always on Faccini's singing and mood, often recalling the golden stillness that Donovan captured so well in the…

Before I go in search of a creative dessert recipe that doesn't include pumpkin, I want to share with you this wonderful, live in-studio performance by TV On The Radio.

The band — in my opinion the best and most important band in all of rock right now — recently appeared on AOL Music's "The Interface," offering stripped-down versions of "Wash the Day," "Young Liars," and "Province." It's really beautiful stuff, and radically different from the album versions, showing that the band's got true soul — the songs stand strong on their own, even…

"Companies such as Toshiba and Sandisk (with its wonderful Nano-like Sansa e200 series) compete effectively with the iPod by asking themselves, 'What are the things that users want and Apple refuses to provide?'

"Microsoft's colossal blunder was to knock the user out of that question and put the music industry in its place."

Ouch! "The Zune Planet orbits the music industry's Bizarro World…