Earlier this week, Melanie Safka’s “Brand New Key” came on the radio while I was driving some friends around. They laughed when I turned it up, but I genuinely do love this song (and did so before I ever saw Boogie Nights). Here’s a video of Melanie performing her hit live in 1971 at the [...]

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Now two episodes deep into their second season on HBO, Flight of the Conchords have announced their April-May tour dates. They’re going all around America, so catch them while you’re able! Fingers crossed for a Bonnaroo show… via Donewaiting Flight of the Conchords Tour Dates 4/6/09 Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center* Tampa, FL 4/7/09 University [...]

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Of Montreal already had a very select US tour this year, but they’re hopping back on the horse (har har) to do another, fuller round of touring in April. First they’ll be hitting up Australia and Asia, but with SXSW and tons of concerts between now and then, I think I’ll be able to wait [...]

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I posted on Anni Rossi not long ago and have since run across this video of her playing “Wheelpusher” live. It’s a good showcase of both her songwriting ability and her live performance solo with just a violin. If you want to boil her down to just a few words, I’d go with “Final Fantasy [...]

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I got Deerhoof’s iTunes session in my mailbox the other day and wasted no time popping it in. Not only am I a huge Deerhoof lover, but it also has a new track on it called “Makko Shobu” that features Greg Saunier trading his drums for a piano and Satomi providing beautiful vocals. The song [...]

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I’m a little slow to this since I thought The United States of Tara looked like garbage (and apparently it is!), but the Polyphonic Spree’s Tim Delaughter composed the series’ theme song. It’s minus the Spree’s backing oomph, but is pretty nice on its own.

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One of the best Dark Was the Night songs in theory is, surprise surprise, one of the best songs in actuality too. Here Leslie Feist, Edward Droste and the rest of Grizzly Bear team up to rework a song Ed wrote four years ago for Horn of Plenty. The result is beautiful. Stream ‘Service Bell [...]

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Asobi Seksu’s new material is absolutely great. I think I still might prefer Citrus, but it’s not by too much. “Me and Mary” is a great song and has a sweet video to back it up. There’s lots of feathers, drawing and even some slow sequences. It’s as sweet and beautiful as the music it [...]

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Thanks to BrianRaferty.com for this video of Spoon’s Britt Daniels singing Wire’s “1 2 x U” with backing help from a punk rock/heavy metal karaoke band.

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