Sorry for the delay in posting this week’s round up. Here are a few of the notable news stories from the past week.

• The Guardian celebrates 20 years of Blur
• WXPN is streaming a live Meat Puppets session
• Conor Oberst, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward have officially announced that they will be releasing a collaborative. humbly titled, album.
• Fender announced the Sonic Jazzmaster, a signature guitar series sponsored by Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo and I really want one.
• Drowned In Sound interviews Yo La Tengo frontman, Ira Kaplan
• Animal Collective does their best to make one of their most accessible songs, inaccessible with the video for “Summertime Clothes:”