I’m not the biggest fan of the Dead Weather’s debut album, but I’ll always pay attention to anything Jack White’s involved in. As such, I was curious to see how these covers turned out. This weekend the Dead Weather covered Bob Dylan’s “New Pony” and Pentegram’s “Forever My Queen” at the Outside Lands festival in [...]

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Giant mega thanks to everyone who entered the These United States vinyl shopping spree contest. Thanks for reading and thanks for being a fan of a good band (and thanks for living in or near Lexington). But unfortunately only one of you could win, and that person has been emailed. MP3: These United States – [...]

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Just a little while after I started up the Spoon covers archive, people began sending me songs I had missed. There were the obvious ones (Yo La Tengo and Hedwig) and the live ones (Sam Cooke), but these are some that I would likely have had to do quite a bit of digging to unearth. [...]

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My attempt at recording Girl Talk’s set at UK ended as poorly as any game of catch attempt at bootlegging can. But luckily I stumbled upon one bootleg I didn’t have. This one is great quality and — from what I’ve had a chance to sample — a pretty good set. MP3: Girl Talk – [...]

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Just when it seemed like Oh No! Oh My! might be taking a break for a minute, they fired it up again and recorded a session for Luxury Wafers including two new tracks. MP3: Oh No! Oh My! – You Were Right (new) Download the entire session, including another new song

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The song starts around 4:25 Dr Nick Troop compared the lyrics and chart placement of David Bowie’s discography and used the results to write the “ideal” Bowie song, one that he says would be a hit. It’s not a bad chord progression and melody, but the lyrics sound like they were written by a robot. [...]

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For the weeks leading up to Girl Talk’s show at the University of Kentucky I had been saying that the university had no idea what it was in for. I figured that all signs pointed to the show being every bit as much of a crazy mess as the other Girl Talk shows I’d seen. [...]

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I had a pretty hard time explaining Grand Buffet to my friends in the days leading up to last night’s show. Usually I went with “well, they’re kind of a joke rap group that’s not really a joke, but not remotely serious.” When I saw them open for Of Montreal, most people weren’t into it, [...]

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Just under a week from the release of their new album Everything Touches Everything, These United States have made available the title track for your downloading pleasure. MP3: These United States – Everything Touches Everything For the most part, Everything Touches Everything is probably going to be remembered as These United States’ “rock” album. Not [...]

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