Around the Music Blogosphere

Snatches of wholesome rock 'n roll goodness from around the inter-connected world:

- Largehearted Boy lists its "favorite eleven albums of 2009"..., including words and Mp3s on The Japandroids, Rhett Miller, Mountain Goats and others.

- Glide Magazine lists its 50 best albums of the decade. The mag also has a good review on a new Velvet Underground book called "White Light White Heat".

- Phoenix New Times 'Up on the Sun' blog wrote about its love for the 30 Seconds to Mars performance on Conan last week: "30 Seconds to Mars put on one of the best band performances on network television when they performed their single, "Kings and Queens," last week on Conan O'Brien. There were nearly 20 people on-stage at once, including a punky choir, three free-standing drummers who danced the whole time and a string quartet. It was so amazing to watch, and everyone on-stage seemed to be really into it."

- Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Laurie Lindeen (author, gal pal of Paul Westerberg, etc.) interviews Joey Ramone's younger brother Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil on Leigh's new memoir (co-written with Please Kill Me's co-author McNeil). ""I approached it like a really, really, really long song," says Leigh, a songwriter before taking up the memoirist's pen. "Joey's musical roots were planted in our family's story, and my tears are on a lot of those pages."