Thanks to Donewaiting for digging up this video of Wilco and Fleet Foxes covering Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” together in concert.

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This is an unknown Spoon song that was recorded at this summer’s Pitchfork festival. I downloaded the bootleg a while back, but am just now getting to enjoy it again. I’m going to go ahead and call this one a new Spoon song rather than a cover because it sounds so Spoon-y. Known differently? Help [...]

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Next in Okkervil River’s list of having their buddies cover songs from their new album The Stand Ins is Bird of Youth. I’m not really familiar with them, but they do a darn good take on one of my favorite songs from the new record.

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Yeah! It’s been a while since Lexington’s Scourge of the Sea shared any new songs with us, but that day has finally come. Andrew English called me up today with the good news that they’ve finished recording two new songs and are ready to share! Link fixed! Sorry about that MP3: Scourge of the Sea [...]

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Guys, Banksy is hitting up New Orleans. Figures he’d go there less than a year after my trip there. Oh well, I can always make due with the photos.

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YANP-fav Oh No! Oh My! has just announced that not only have they finished up their next EP, they’re going to be releasing it sooner than you might think. Though its official release will be sometime in October, the band say that they’ll be giving it away to several hundred of their fans before then. [...]

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It’s called ‘Nowhere Boy’. Matt Greenhalgh, the guy who wrote the Ian Curtis bio Control, will be writing it.

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Intelligence will be releasing a new covers 7-inch through Plastic Idol Records. The A-side will be a cover of the Magnetic Fields’ “Fido Your Leash Is Too Long,” with a cover of the Splits’ “Shitty World” as the B-side. Sounds crazy? It is. Here’s their wacky take on Stephin Merritt’s already wacky tune: MP3: Intelligence [...]

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OK guys, it’s time for the big one. Tomorrow, Friday August 29, I’ll be picking the last winner of a free pass to the Monolith Festival in Colorado. They’ve got a great lineup of everybody from Justice and TV on the Radio to Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend. So head over here and throw [...]

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