I’ve spent the past few weeks catching up on two artists I’ve largely ignored until the past year: Eels and Prince. So while youtubing to see if I could find the performance of “Trouble with Dreams” from the Live With Strings tour, I ran across this cover of Mark Everett and his band covering Prince’s [...]

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In one of the best Stephen/musician exchanges I’ve seen in a while, Colbert interviewed folk legend Kris Kristofferson. Surprisingly, not only was Kris keen to Stephen’s sense of humor, he got about as many laughs as his interviewer. At the end, Kris plays a song off his album This Old Road.

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Here’s the Literal Video version of the video for Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” As the theme goes, the words sung are describing the action in the video, with nothing to do with the original song beyond melody. This one’s pretty good, standing strong with the original two, “Take On Me” and “Head Over Heels”

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Man, is there a rule that whoever the Republican party trots out as its new face has to have a clone on 30 Rock? Well when Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to Obama’s address the other night, everyone realized he talked like Kenneth from 30 Rock. Now Jimmy Fallon has an exclusive video of [...]

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Thanks to Muzzle of Bees for the heads up. Rolling Stone’s Smoking Section just got a first listen to seven of the songs on the new Wilco record and they say it sounds like a home run. Not only that, but it’ll be released in June! Confirmed tracks/titles are: “Wilco, The Song,” “Deeper Down,” “My [...]

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I didn’t realize Phosphorescent’s Willie Nelson covers album To Willie was already in stores until about a week ago. Oops. This is why I need a secretary to fill out a giant calendar for me. I haven’t been able to spend as much time with the album as I’d like, but I’ve enjoyed the time [...]

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Now THIS is a Boy Least Likely To video. TBLLT just posted this video for my favorite song off their new album, “A Balloon on a Broken String.” In the video, the duo go looking around the English countryside for a lost red balloon and take every route possible to find it.

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I totally fell in love with Nana Grizol at the E6 Holiday Surprise show. To be that young and hold your own while playing your songs between ones by the Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel really says something about your skill. Not only did he not lose the audience, but [...]

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Matt & Kim are playing February 28 in Louisville at Skull Alley and I’ve got two tickets and a signed album going to the winner of this contest. I got to see them last year in Austin and I can tell you that they put on quite the show. To enter, just leave a comment [...]

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