Indie-jam rockers moe. get a well deserved break from the road after performing at moe. down 9 at the Snow Ridge Ski Area in Turin, NY over Labor Day Weekend. For those of us who can’t make it up to Turin for the festie iClips has us covered. They’ll be webcasting many of the performances from throughout the weekend.

Let’s see what else is goin’ down on this happy hump day…

• John Lennon’s murderer tries to explain what led him to kill
• Darryl Hall invites Chromeo over to his house for a session
• Crawdaddy! speaks with the always wild and zany Baby Gramps
• Josh Clark and Turbine teamed up for a raging benefit show
• Shawn Donohue reviews Body Count in Brooklyn for Glide Mag
• Muxtape presses pause to sort out some issues with the RIAA

The good folks at Consequence of Sound have started a fantastic new feature called Where We Live, which examines the best venues in the country. This week, the CoS guys look at the majestic Gorge amphitheater in George, Washington.

With the July 4th right around the corner, we thought we’d get the HT gang together again to slap a variety of foodstuffs on the grill and throw back some Six Point Hop Obama’s for another edition of At The Barbecue. This time around we figured we’d find out what has been burning up the iPods of our faithful HT Contributors as we approach the mid-way point of 2008.

Much like Fight Club there were no rules - the albums could be something released this year, something you’ve just discovered or an old classic that’s just been getting a lot of play. So sit back and enjoy, the Best Music Of ‘08 (So Far)…

Neddy:

Favorite album of the year has to be, no ifs ands or buts, John Zorn’s the Dreamers. You won’t find a more talented ensemble of musicians playing more soul-pleasing compositions in such amazing fashion anywhere else — I gar-uhn-tee. Your favorite genre — be it piano jazz, reverby surf, dirty funk or Lou Reed pop — is reinvented, dissected, exploded, imploded, impregnated and otherwise made to feel welcome in that cozy spot between the tiny hairs inside your ears and the squishy gray stuff beyond. All that and free stickers! Enjoy!

READ ON to see what albums your favorite HT bloggers can’t get enough of…