xkcd.com: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Okay, you probably have to be a serious geek to love a stick figure comic making jokes about things like the Large Hadron Collider or a Science Fair project gone horribly wrong. So I’m a geek—this is news? Be sure and hover your mouse over the cartoon for extra comments by the author. For the (relatively) non-geeky, here’s a music-related cartoon.

monoinvcf.com: Despite the geeky band name, Mono In VCF is seriously cool (the name is meant to imply something like a label you’d see on a patch cord jack on a vintage synth). Their sound includes elements of Phil Spector’s wall of sound, spaghetti westerns, ’60s psychedelia and vintage soul. I heard a song on NPR’s Song of the Day (oddly, it’s no longer listed as far as I can tell), then went to their website and was instantly hooked. The album is available as download only, which includes printable cover art and a press packet, and goes for $9.99. I’ve been listening to this album constantly for over a month, just haven’t gotten around to blogging it.