• Album tacos?—Make mine Carnage asada, please

• 4AD at 30—Trend-setting British label still going after three decades

• AmRep celebrates 25 years—See the photos (& video), feel the chain wallets

• “Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers”—Welcome news after last night’s Pehr show, eh?

• Hott new traxx from K.I.T.—Oakland band features L.A. friends Kristy & Steve & Vice from XBXRX, plus George Chen

• “Reliance on album sales is very 20th century”—Labels react to the new record biz paradigm