Photo by www.missionphotographic.com GvB just pointed us all to a new Love is All recording. LiA have done a five song covers EP, which includes this grinding, lo-fi take on Prince’s groovy “Darling Nikki.” Stream it on their Myspace

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When I saw the Magnetic Fields (twice) in San Francisco, I had a nice chat with their great merch people. After a while I asked if they knew if there were any plans to release Distortion on vinyl. They told me that Stephin was actually talking with Merge about getting all of his back catalogue [...]

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Here’s a kooky, fun mashup of MGMT and Of Montreal done by Amplive, who you might remember from his Radiohead remix album. MP3: MGMT vs Of Montreal – Future Faberge (Amplive remix)

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Ted Leo will be taking the pharmacy on the road this summer, partly opening for Pearl Jam and partly headlining shows. Unfortunately he doesn’t joing Vedder and Co. until after Bonnaroo, so it looks like I might have to go a year without my fix. MP3: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – My Vien Ilin [...]

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Beck just posted a new song “Chemtrails” on his web site. It’s off the new Danger Mouse-produced album Modern Guilt and has me salivating for the full product. Here’s a medium quality rip to get your day started in that spacey, beautiful way that could only come from the mind of Beck Hanson. MP3: Beck [...]

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Man, Islands sure have been picking their covers well as of late. They’ve done Sinead, the Kinks, worked some Who into the end of “In the Rushes” and now they’re covering Brian Eno in their Daytrotter session.

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Band of Horses are set to rock the second Monolith Festival The Hot Freaks are helping out with this year’s Monolith Music Festival. The fest is happening September 13 and 14 at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. This batch of new artists adds Hercules and the Love Affair, Foals, Atmosphere and a lot more to [...]

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I was going through some old files on my computer and stumbled upon more Belle and Sebastian covers. This one is from the ever-influential but far to under-covered Os Mutantes. The Bees did a great cover of this tune in the studio, but there’s something about hearing the crowd’s squeals of delight as their realization [...]

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I searched and searched for a recording of this Rolling Stones cover after getting home from Bonnaroo, but never had any luck. It wasn’t until I was googling around for random rarities that I bumped into this good quality video. I’ll admit that I’m sad that it doesn’t look like I’ll be seeing the Flaming [...]

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