[Links] CC - 10/25

Freddie Gibbs on FADER TV with a hotel room performance of Iodine Poison

-?uestlove tells Paste how The Roots ended up as Jimmy Fallon's house band
-Through SellaBand, Public Enemy has reached their $50,000 goal to fund the recording process of a new album
-Our main man Samuel's show was recapped on MTV's site
-CMJ coverage: P4k on Thursday and Friday (here and here), KEXP is recording sessions with bands at CMJ and Idolator on the festival at large
-IGN ranks Daft Punk's albums...surprised but elated that Alive 2007 is in 2nd position, most prefer 1997
-Vampire Weekend's upcoming single will be "Cousins"
-Anthony of the HypeMachine lists some of his favorite under the radar music blogs
-RZA talked to All Songs Considered about his new book, The Tao of Wu
-The Guardian profiles Karin Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray and The Knife
-Carles has a funny take on the potential scandalous ties between The xx and Dos Equis
-From P4k: Memory Tapes discusses some of his favorite music and the Sara half of Tegan and Sara gives her 5-10-15-20
-Stereogum checks in with Charlotte Gainsbourg on the recording process
-Gawker with a surprisingly funny take on Michael Buble
-The New York Post on The Swell Season
-Clicky Clicky lists their favorite albums of 2009