Midweek Minutia

-- More Cowbell links to Schedule Two for six videos of The Hold Steady's Minneapolis shows last October.

-- The fantasticly fabulous gents of Record Robot treat us to a wonderful pre-Super Bowl piece on the All Sports Band, a group of 1970s musicians who made a terrificly bad LP; "some guys wearing sports uniforms while singing songs about good lovin' gone bad."

-- Jerseybeat has been seeing lots of local and touring bands in the East Village and the LES. Check out Jersey jim's reviews.