Rock the Garden 2013 included “the two most punk-rock moments” in RTG history, plus three other performances that “full-on, gimme-earplugs, don’t-forget-the-smoke-machine rocked,” writes Chris Riemenschneider. Look for our reports on the festival soon.

Henry Rollins knew about Raymond Pettibon’s logo for Black Flag before he heard the band play (he later became frontman). The “impactful” logo, he tells MOCA TV, “became synonymous with unrest, chaos, rebellion, and those pushing against anything you got.”

Producer/musician Jim O’Rourke listens almost exclusively to electronic music, he says in a rare interview, with one exception: He loves Zeppelin. “Presence is just perfection. … It is fussed over—but it sounds like it’s just being done off the cuff.”

Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed underwent a liver transplant in Cleveland last month, his wife, Laurie Anderson, revealed over the weekend. Reed, 71, “was dying,” she said, but after the life-saving procedure he’s back working.

Amanda Ghassaei, who’s been 3D-printing records from mp3s, is now focusing on wood. In her latest project she’s created the world’s first laser-cut vinyl discs from wood, including Radiohead’s “Idioteque” and the Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” in maple.

Enamored by achingly beautiful deconstructionist pop? How about whiskey-soaked vocals? Jaunty handclaps? The Stool Pigeon takes “a magical journey through clichés as we look at the drivel that’s dearest to music writers’ hearts.”

New recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Awards have been named. Among them are artists who have shared our stage (or will), including Ping Chong, Myra Melford, Tere O’Connor, Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper, David Lang, Elizabeth Streb, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and others.

Photographer Alec Soth is among 175 American and Canadian artists, scholars, and scientists named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. Others making the cut: filmmaker Marie Losier, composer Myra Melford, artist Coco Fusco, and filmmaker Ira Sachs.

Tim Carr, the Minnesota–born A&R exec who signed the Beastie Boys, has been found dead in Thailand. He produced the Walker’s seminal M-80 festival, worked with bands like Babes In Toyland, and created Ramakien with Rirkrit Tiravanija.