by SHANE SINNOTT

Billy Corgan just launched a spiritual website, thus ensuring we’ll be amused for at least another week. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has apparently felt it necessary to create a sort of religious blog, where he explains, “This is not a place of judgment, nor a place of making proof. We begin with the idea that there is a God. We begin with the undying belief that there is a unifying intelligence that manifests itself in Every-thing.” And then it’s straight to a piece about one of his heroes, Walt Disney.

The blog is called Everything from Here to There and it allows reader submission of content. But beware, smartasses. “We allow content submissions,” they say, “but all submissions are subject to approval of the site administration team.” Go to everythingfromheretothere.com to chip in. “Cherub Rock” is at tinyurl.com/lqq4oz.

The always amazing Root Strata blog (rootstrata.com/rootblog) turned me on to a prime example of one of the Internet’s great glories this week—the near-instant ability to hear something new you’d never buy. The case was a six-hour excerpt from an installation by electronic guy Keith Fullerton Whitman, in which four auto-reverse stereo cassette decks are set up in corners of a room and played simultaneously for days. The artist mixed down a chunk of the results at tinyurl.com/o2ttel. Called “Dream House Variations,” the title is of course a reference to La Monte Young’s Dream House installation, which ran for many years in NYC. The Dream House hosted uninterrupted, relay-style drone performances for years, and Young is one of the most important people in minimal music and art of the last 50 years. Here’s a link to “Days of Niagara” performed by Young, John Cale, Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad and partner Marian Zazeela from 1965. An artifact if there ever was one, at tinyurl.com/oanc3f.

The dross this week: MGMT covering Talking Heads, as cool young bands are wont to do (“This Must Be the Place,” tinyurl.com/kw99f2), and the debut song from the new Vivian Girls record—their self-titled debut last year was one of my favourites (“Walking Alone at Night,” tinyurl.com/m25obn).