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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Someone was kind enough to send me the video (below) of this song. MP3: Action Camp – Best I Can Do With enough pep to beat the Pipettes, but the sweetness to nearly cause more diabetic problems than All Girl Summer Fun Band, here comes Action Camp! Vocally it reminds me a bit of the [...]

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Yeah, I posted this song about a month ago, but this needs to be brought up again. Why? Because these guys need to be heard. I just got a promo copy of MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular and feel sorry for any music to be released in the next three weeks — I really don’t see my [...]

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