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This has been some day for new music. First Radiohead dropped not only a new song and video, but also their entire fucking album.  Then Keep Shelly In Athens dropped both jams from their latest single, and now new Lykke Li!  What’s next, Jimi Hendrix back from the dead to announce a summer tour with [...]

Generally bands find one type of music they’re good at and stick with it turning out album after album that become the music equivalent of baked beans.  They look and taste identical and too many of them make you sick.  It’s always refreshing then to find a band that’s prepared to try something different.  Young [...]

You should know by now that myself and Confusion from Pigeons & Planes are in a race to the death to make Lykke Li our other half. There aren’t really any ground rules as yet so we’re probably treading some murky waters as to what’s “legal” and what’s “not”, but so far stalking, phone-tapping, and [...]

Mashups are really hit or miss, and let’s face it – we’re not all Danger Mouse. BUT – who wouldn’t love anything with the Beastie Boys AND Beck?  ”Loser” isn’t Beck’s best song, but mixed with “So Whatcha Want” Ugly Lovely creates a sick track with contextual contrasts, while still preserving both sounds and melodies. [...]

With about seven weeks left until the release of Lykke Li‘s much-anticipated second album “Wounded Rhymes”, “I Follow Rivers” is the third track to surface from said album after “Get Some” and “Paris Blue”. So far you can colour me excited.  ”Wounded Rhymes” is out February 28th, which is about sevens weeks away too many. [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

With only a couple of songs that are publicly available at the moment, you might think it difficult to fully get behind a band, especially in this day and age when we’re spoiled with numerous ways and means for bands to let us hear their music. Not with L.A. quintet The Sea Of Cortez, whose couple of songs are [...]

This is the last part of Beck’s current Record Club series which this time around focused on INXS’s 1987 album “Kick”. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until his next edition comes out that’s supposedly featuring Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth and the band Tortoise.  Last week it was “Calling All Nations” and before [...]

If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]

In the penultimate installment for Beck’s most recent Record Club Series, he’s on guitar and Annie Clark is on vocals.  I can’t get enough of Annie Clark’s voice, on whatever she does, whether it’s Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent, or INXS covers. On previous offerings he’s given us “Kick,  ”Mystify“, “Never Tear Us Apart“, “Wild Life“, [...]

This might just be the best performance from Beck’s INXS record club jaunt yet, handclaps, yelling, people in a circle, some poeple sitting down and some people standing up.  There are even people not even taking part, just being people.  This has it all. On previous offerings he’s offered us “Mystify“, “Never Tear Us Apart“, [...]

Yup, here’s another one, right on schedule too.  As you can tell I’m running out of things to say, unless you want me to just babble for six lines to fill up some space so that the people who don’t even read this just skip past it to the video but think to themselves “Man, he’s really [...]

It’s a good thing I like this guy otherwise I’d probably get tired of posting these.  Actually, if I didn’t like him I wouldn’t post ANY of these, so now I’ve just wasted time by typing out my thoughts to myself instead of deleting them.  Meh. This week he’s a little ahead of his usual [...]

Yup, here’s another one.  I make it sound really boring, but they’re actually frickin awesome. Last time around Beck (for some reason) made the video private, then made it public again, so if you try to watch this and it’s private, just give a little bit and it might be public. Again. Have a deek [...]

I think I keep saying the same thing, that even though these Record Club sessions are awesome, there’s not a whole lot I can say about them that I haven’t already said. Watch their previous covers of “Mediate“, “Need You Tonight“, “Devil Inside“, and “New Sensation” and “Guns In The Sky” Download INSX’s “Kick” for free [...]

Ok so I’m running out of things to say about Beck’s fourth Record Club series.  So I’ll just say this; he spent the better part of a day covering INXS’s “Kick” album with St. Vincent, Liars and a slew of others and it’s damn damn good. Previously he’s done “New Sensation” , “Guns In The [...]