Through Friday, MN Original is releasing footage from Rock the Garden 2012 with three segments sharing clips and interviews with Howler, tUnE-yArDs, Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and The Hold Steady. Look for them on the Walker Channel as well.

Over four months, the first 100 records for each letter of BBC Radio legend John Peel’s alphabetized 26,000-item music collection will be presented online, “replete with their owner’s personally devised catalogue number and, occasionally, remarks.”

Pianist Vijay Iyer, who played the Walker in March, topped five categories in this year’s DownBeat International Critics Poll, an unprecedented feat. His honors include: jazz artist of the year, top jazz album, top pianist, top jazz group, and “Rising Star Composer.”

Yoko Ono and longtime friends Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth are teaming up on a new album of “noise music.” Mulberry, due later this year, aims to “bring out maximum energy to wake up the world.” It also apparently has another name: YOKOKIMTHURSTON.

David Byrne, who headlined Rock the Garden 2004, and St. Vincent, who graced our stage last fall, have teamed up on a new LP, Love This Giant, and are starting a tour in support of it. A departure for both, the album will hinge on “idiosyncratic horn arrangements.”

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, who opened Rock the Garden 2008, has founded a record label dedicated to promoting new or older bands making “good music that may not be box office-smashing.” It’s name, borrowed from a Northern Exposure character: Chigliak Records.

College study in Kenya, a gig performing quirky scores for Buster Keaton films, parents who met in New York while playing square dances, a political sensibility: A bit of what goes into the music of Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, who plays Rock the Garden Saturday.

NASA’s only artist in residence Laurie Anderson tells SVA’s 2012 grads there should be artist residencies everywhere, including Congress and the Supreme Court. “Artists have a unique point of view. Why isn’t that part of the bigger picture in our country?”