Tom Waits’ new album Bad As Me is coming out Oct 25 on Anti. You can buy the title track as a digital single from your online store of choice today, but you can begin streaming it below while you do that. Tom Waits’ Bad As Me tracklist 01 “Chicago” 02 “Raised Right Men” 03 [...]

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Coleman Guyon shot this video for Jovontaes’ “Killer Pilz” and sent it over. I like it so much that I’ll let this double-local post escape the Local section and share it here. “Killer Pilz” is a lot brighter than most of Jovontaes’ songs wind up in their live show, but it’s still got the slow [...]

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The kind folks at Headliners have offered me two pairs of tickets to give away to the Hold Steady’s show there this Sunday. I’m giving away two pairs of tickets to see the Hold Steady at Headliners on 8/28. To enter, leave a comment with your name and email address filled out. I’ll pick a [...]

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CoS pointed me toward a web site that’s streaming the new Bjork song “Moon.” Problem is, that site set off my web browser’s malicious site alerts (Google Chrome’s got your back). If you feel like checking it out, it’s free to stream right here at Bork Spain. If you want to play it extra safe, [...]

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MP3: The Weeknd – The Birds (Part 1) Now that the dust has settled from the release of The Weeknd’s “Thursday” mixtape, he’s stirring it up again with the release of a video for “Birds (Part 1).” Download The Weeknds’ “Thursday” mixtape

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The Decemberists’ new video was inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. If I didn’t have a high stack of books to read I’d go pick up a copy and read it today. JUST KIDDING. Nobody can read that book in a day. Colin had this to say about it: I wrote “Calamity Song” shortly [...]

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My Lexington readers are no doubt skipping this intro after saying “hell yeah! new Matt Duncan song!” but there are no doubt a few of of you who aren’t yet familiar with Matt. MP3: Matt Duncan – Summer Song Matt sent me this song, saying it’ll “probably never have a home.” It’s a shame, since [...]

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Thanks to 24B for pointing me toward Stephen Malkmus’ Smog cover at Portland’s Quiet Music Festival. Malkmus turned in a cover of Smog’s “Cold Blooded Old Times” solo acoustic at the festival. Stephen Malkmus: “Cold Blooded Old Times” (Smog cover)

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This photo is incredible. Anyone know who took it? UPDATE: Photo by Steve Double Thanks to Nick-Cave.com for archiving this gem. In 1996 Nick Cave was nominated for MTV’s Best Male Artist award. In response, he wrote this letter. TO ALL THOSE AT MTV, I WOULD LIKE TO START BY THANKING YOU ALL FOR THE [...]

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