HOW DO YOU SPELL CHANNUKKAHH? The LeeVees try to help with an Electric Company-esque video. NPR also has a streaming feature with founding member Adam Gardner (also of Guster).

SEASON of the LIST: Pitchfork has "best of" lists from Islands, Mastadon, Go! Team, Jens Lekman, The Pipettes, Beck and more. Billboard has the Top ten from their panel of critics, as well as lists from artists including Mike Watt, Robert Pollard, Calexico's Joey Burns and Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood. The BBC collective has a/v links for their Top Ten. Glide does it's best to link you to the pages for their Top 20. Marathon Packs has a Top 19. And there's an interesting Top Ten at More Cowbell!

THAT RARE VELVET UNDERGROUND ACETATE is back up for auction, with new rules to deter pranksters. Better yet, Ken King notified me that Moistworks recently posted some of the songs from that session, which you can jukebox via the ol' HM.

HARRY NILSSON: Filmmakers John Scheinfeld and David Leaf -- along with composer Van Dyke Parks -- talk to Harp magazine about the documentary Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin