Just got sent over Dirty Beaches’ Badlands (out 3/29 on ZOO MUSIC) and instantly dug it. Truthfully I wanted to post a different track, but that’ll be for another time. Plus, it’s always good to have something to wait for, right? MP3: Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best I wouldn’t have thought to combine Idiot [...]

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Still catching up on everything from the past few weeks? NPR is here to help. They’re offering the Decemberists’ new LP The King is Dead as a free stream over at their web site. It’s more country, less prog and another interesting effort from these guys. Stream the King is Dead from NPR

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This video’s less than a minute long, so I can’t feel too bad for wasting our collective time with it. Some kind soul out there in internetland cut up some clips of Sesame Street and put them to Kanye’s “Monster.”

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The folks over at Fogged Clarity managed to wrangle Will Oldham for an interview and an acoustic session. He plays the first and last songs from Days in the Wake as well as a cover of former tour partner Doug Paisley. Fogged Clarity’s Will Oldham session/interview And for those of you looking for a more [...]

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This one came to me via a question on the Secret Unicorns Forum that wondered if this was a sample from the Unicorns’ song “I Do It” Sounds close, but I’m willing to say that this is probably just a weird coincidence. MP3: the Red River – When We Are Wild Oddly, the part of [...]

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