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A kind fan recorded Grizzly Bear’s entire September 22 show in Ottawa and has posted it on Stage6. You might need a plugin to watch it, but it’s great viewing. You can download it too if you wish. You can find the hi-res version and a better way to download it by going […]

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Robert Pollard is releasing two albums this year: Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love, his Beatles work; and Standard Gargoyle Decisions, the Stones of the two. That’s right, two album and not normal name between them. Luckily for Pollard he can back up his wild titles with great tunes.
MP3: Robert Pollard - Rud Fins
MP3: Robert […]

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I found this (where else?) at Tullycraft’s blog. This is the Lucksmiths’ cover of the Bee Gees “I Started a Joke,” which will be featured on their new double album Spring a Leak. You can get the full tracklist and their cover of a Ladybug Transistor song here.
MP3: The Lucksmiths - I Started a Joke […]

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The Winks, whom I haven’t had the pleasure of posting on in a while, just announced a rather large tour which will take them through their native Canada and all across the U.S. In fact, there are so many dates that I’m going to post them after a jump. And if you see a TBA […]

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First to email me at matt(at)youaintnopicasso(dot)com with the subject “Vhs or Beta Tickets” will win a pair of tickets for the group’s performance at the Dame in Lexington, KY this Friday night.
MP3: VHS or Beta - Can’t Believe a Single Word

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Radiohead playing “Up on the Ladder” in 2002
Thanks to atease.com for the info.
I usually don’t like having my head messed with, but I’ll make exceptions for Radiohead. The band just posted an image of Thom with the caption “im stuck in the tardis,” which just happens to be the first line of “Up on the […]

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I’m probably going to catch some flack for jumping the gun on this, but I get the feeling I’ll be justified in one month’s time.
So you may remember the Worried Noodles project, wherein musicians including Liars, David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand and Final Fantasy contribute their translations of David Shrigley’s songs.
Those songs previously existed […]

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I’ve been so smitten with Seabear this week that I went and tracked down an MP3 of their cover of the Undertones’ classic “Teenage Kicks.” They play around with it and it winds up being really great. Seabear do tinker around with the song, which I think will actually be of a benefit to those […]

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