I had heard Portugal the Man covered Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back In Anger” at Lollapalooza, but not that it was part melded with their original song “People Say.” It’s an incredible cover (the only kind they do) and one I wish I could’ve seen. The cover starts at the 2:26 mark. On a sadder note, [...]

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I am so excited for their show in Cincinnati next Wednesday. I. Am. So. Excited. That’s especially impressive, given that I’ve seen My Morning Jacket three times this year already – – and Neko Case once. ps: I will be the first to say that I love “Islands in the Stream” non-ironically. This song’s awesome, [...]

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Ordinarily I would only be moderately curious about a random video showing up on a band’s website. But in this case the band is Sigur Ros and the video, called “Inni,” is accompanied by an invitation to “Sign up for Inni updates?” So the question is: what exactly is Inni going to turn out to [...]

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tricked again! EDIT: I’ve been informed that the video above is not even a performance of “Faerie’s Aire.” So yeah, quite unplayable. As I said in the intro, I can’t read music so I couldn’t verify for myself. Instead I was basing this on this Youtube video. But hey, it’s still a fascinating bit of [...]

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Local drone lords Everyone Lives Everyone Wins, whom you may already know as the masterminds behind the Concentric Dronecultcollective, are taking it to the streets with Below – extremely talented purveyors of Appalachian mountain doom metal – over the next week, with a six-date string of shows lined up from Tennessee to North Carolina to [...]

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I’m not on Hulu that often these days, so I just now realized the excellent documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson? is streaming in full over there (I should’ve paid more attention to AD this week) Harry’s one of my all-time favorite musicians and this is a delightful documentary. It’s only online for about another week, [...]

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Thanks to /Film for this heads up. Check out a selection from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I’m finishing reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest right now; wildly excited to finish the Swedish films and then check out the American remakes! Maybe I’ll listen to [...]

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In my never-ending quests to collect all the Ted Leo covers out there, I tracked down these two from a few months ago. Ted played these two covers at a solo show in May. MP3: Ted Leo – The Back Seat of My Car (Paul McCartney) MP3: Ted Leo – Could You Be the One [...]

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MP3: The Shins – Taken for a Fool (live) The title is my own guess on what this might wind up being called on the next Shins LP. The song got its debut last night. James apologizes for their new song being a slow one, but I’m really loving it. Of course I love their [...]

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