I’ve updated the MMJ Covers Archive with three of the new covers they’ve performed live this year. There are some new studio covers that are on tribute albums currently in print that I’ve skipped over, but you can still grab those: Muppets tribute, Rave On Buddy Holly and a Tribute to Shel Silverstein. Grab 75+ [...]

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St Vincent just shared the incredible video for “Cruel” off her upcoming album Strange Mercy. I guess the important lyric in this one was “they could take you or leave you, so they took you and left you.” No spoilers, but one of the funniest moments is Annie playing the guitar solo despite her situation. [...]

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Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox has another Atlas Sound album coming out soon. Parallax hits shelves Nov 8 via 4AD. Here’s our first taste. MP3: Atlas Sound – Terra Incognita If Destroyer’s Dan Bejar had his heart set on going soft in 2011, I wish he’d decided to sound like this rather than he did on Kaputt. [...]

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Is covering Nirvana in Seattle taboo? Clearly JGL gets a pass on that if so. Here he is doing a solo electric cover of Nirvana’s “Lithium” in Seattle.

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Tragically this is something I can neither help you experience through my blog or cover with a live review. It is, however, something so incredibly cool that I’d be a fool not to mention it. Guillemots will be performing a live score for the film Oldboy tomorrow, Thursday August 25, at the Leeds Festival at [...]

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Before we get too wrapped up in all the upcoming Flaming Lips collaborations, we need to remember that there are some that’re still being explored. The Lips just shared this new video for their Lightning Bolt collaboration “I’m Working at NASA on Acid.”

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Stephen Malkmus is back this week with a new album, Mirror Traffic. Nerve got the idea that this would be a great opportunity to ask the indie rock legend for some sex and relationship advice. From Nerve: Sometimes it seems the groupie is a lost archetype. Were the ’90s better than the 2000s? People still [...]

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Florence and the Machine just debuted a video of them playing their new song “What the Water Gave Me” I ripped the audio of that track so that you can enjoy it on the go. MP3: Florence and the Machine – What The Water Gave Me Florence’s new album is out in November.

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I’m going to start a poetry series called “If I Were Half as Creative As Fishboy…” It’ll be a long (endless?) series where I say things I could have done if I were half as creative as Eric from Fishboy. Their new video for “Aspen 2K” is a prime example of this guy’s skill. Check [...]

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