Here’s a weird (NSFW?), awesome video for my favorite Band of Horses song, “No One’s Gonna Love You.” Yeah, that record is definitely how the last half of the new My Morning Jacket album should sound. No embed link, but you can download or view it below!
MOV: Band of Horses - No One’s Gonna Love […]

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I swiped this band from from my good buddy Matt Skatterbrain. He’s got a song of theirs called “I’m Dungeons, You’re Dragons,” which sounds like Love Is All and is also good, but I prefer this one.
M4A: The Alligators - Touch
The speed, bounciness and spunky female vocals in this song all meld together to remind […]

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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
Ted Leo […]

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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.
Download it at Daytrotter.com
If you couldn’t guess by all the Islands coverage, I think their record is tons […]

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