Linkwad.

• The AT&T-Mo deal looks like it just got shot down. Good news.
• What is even happening with music this year? Jack White and ICP? Doing Mozart?
• To get that out of your head, I recommend either M83′s new “Intro,” ft. Zola Jesus, or the Dresden Dolls’ cover of “Dance Me to the End of Love.”

Riveting whirlwinds gripping the world.

It just occurred to me that Irene is an ideal time for Latyrx’s “Storm Warning,” off the mostly-forgotten Quannum Spectrum:

It also gives me an excuse to post the Lyrics Born earworm “I Changed My Mind.”

Linkwad.

1. I missed the news the first time around, but Breaking Bad got picked up for a final season. So we have at least a year before the inevitable Scarface/Soprano ending.
2. Best of the Jay-Z and Outkast discographies, in tournament form.
3. The best hip-hop-related drink ads. Stuff like this is more compelling than anything Grantland’s headlining writers have come up with (see also: Katie Baker, who earned huge points with me for coining the phrase “asymptotes of insanity“). Bonus: have you seen the best thing on the Internet yet?
4. Also, thanks to Scott, I have been enjoying the adultolescent train wreck that is Thought Catalog. I suggest you do the same.

Round and round.

Via @AnnieLowrey, an awesome year-by-year infographic showing “how the download killed the CD that killed the cassette that killed the LP.”

As a nerd, it’s amazing to me that CD sales still accounted for almost 50% of 2010 music purchases.

“Unique to say the least.”

That’s the verdict on A. Samuels, “55-year-old casino executive” mastermind who’s “Livin De Life”¹:

Via Chris, who also “has a respectable amount of self esteem.”