Just in case you hadn’t gotten your fill of TMBG yet, Newsweek is running an interview with John Flansburgh. He’s got some good remarks about the present state of the music industry:

I think the sad thing is that we’re going to see a lot more actors making records and the whole thing is going to seem like a bad superprovincial version of rock. Popular music as its own self-contained world—like the world our older brothers and sisters enjoyed while looking at the liner notes of whatever mid-’70s record—is really fading out. People just don’t get exposed to music in an organic way anymore.

He also—quite rightly, I think—calls MTV onto the carpet (speaking of the Homestar Runner Experimental Film video):

Frankly, and I’m reluctant to say this in a public forum, but I’m not sure MTV is cool enough to play it. [Laughs.] MTV needs to climb out of their teeny-bop ghetto, dust themselves off and get back to the business of new wave.