The inaugural Big Guava Festival opens an exciting new chapter for Central Florida’s music scene!

For its fourth year the Pitchfork Music Festival proves to Chris Catania, and about 20,000 fans, that it can deliver the goods as well as the big guys.

In light of the recent charges levied against Jammie Thomas-Rasset in the RIAA’s case against her, we’ve unearthed this review on Steal This Music, a book concerning the history of copyright in music.

Super Animal Brothers III (Car Park). Review by Matthew Moyer.

There was much buzz about Girl Talk at the opening night of Harvest of Hope’s three-day weekend of music. Phillip Haire dutifully caught the set, and found a new respect for mixing and mashing.

A boy called Girl Talk. A bio-engineering DJ. Rick Astley and Metallica? Gregg Gillis wholly embraces the philosophy of the “mash-up.” Reyan Ali wonders if what Girl Talk does is legal, good for the industry, or can even be considered music. So, he asked Gillis about it, point blank.

Pop-collagist/Party-Starter Girl Talk (a.k.a. Gregg Gillis ) talks to Omar de la Rosa about sampling, doing remixes versus Girl Talk originals, the like-minded performance stylings of tourmate Dan Deacon, and Gregg’s favorite mixed drink.

For the third straight year indie-rock tastemaker Pitchfork Media summoned the masses, including Chris Catania , and delivered a balanced mix of promising upstarts and legends for the Pitchfork Music Festival.

Girl Talk (Telarc). Review by Chastity Carondelet.