Mick needs to know what he's going to do tomorrow. Me, I'm just happy to wake up and see who's hanging around. Mick's rock, I'm roll.

—Keith Richards in Stones in Exile, a new documentary about the making of Exile on Main St in 1971.

A lot of Exile was done how Keith works. Which is, play it 20 times, marinade, play it another 20 times. He knows what he likes, but he's very loose."

—Charlie Watts about Keith Richards in the same Stones in Exile.

It was missing a bit of body here and there, and I stroked something on acoustic here and there. But otherwise, I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were. Mick wanted to sort of fix some vocal things, but otherwise, basically they are as we left them 39 years ago.

—Keith Richards in The Secrets Behind the Rolling Stones' 'Exile on Main Street' Reissue interview.

My dear friend Nucu Pandrea working the magic out of his leaf in New York concert along with The Nightlosers.

Put your headphones on and listen carefully these bits of deconstructed Beatles' craft.

Shine A Light makes you wish there was a Nobel Prize for shooting and editing rock band movies. It dazzled me when I first saw it in a small Edinburgh theatre, it dazzles me again every time I watch the disc.

P.S. You have to buy the disc, though, in order to see that the "Bonus Digital Copy" intended for playing on iPhones and iPods won't work in countries that lack a local iTunes Music Store, despite the fact that (a) you paid for it and (b) you are not warned about that anywhere.

Busy. Building a Beethoven playlist, BRB.

Waaait, how did jazz drop down there?

Also: playlistism.

House of Cards: an experimental music video shot without cameras.