This week we have a very special “People and their Shit” edition of Bangs, featuring Thurston Moore and the extended library of rare books and zines from the last 50 years of counter-/youth culture that he keeps cluttered around his office in western Massachussetts. If there were any lingering doubts about his transition from cool New York music nerd into something more like cool associate professor, this should do them in.

We’re also revisiting our old tete a tete (accents are lame) with Andrew WK on Soft Focus in preparation for the second, Anglocentric season of the show and revisiting the “special pets” episode of the Cute Show just cause we like it.