I’m giving away two tickets to this weekend’s Boomslang music festival. The first will go out via this contest, the second will be a trivia question posted to the You Ain’t No Picasso facebook page Monday afternoon. To enter to win a ticket to the Boomslang music festival, leave a comment with your name and [...]

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Before their concert in Kansas City, the Foo Fighters dressed up and played a song to the Westboro Baptist Church protestors. The song, “Keep It Clean,” not only features a bit of salty language, but also was used in the intro to their porn parody promo video. Gotta love the speech in the middle too: [...]

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The funniest thing about this song is that the plot (man falls for a woman promised to another man, they run off, the fiance chases them with intent to kill) could easily be a Bob Dylan song. Here’s the b-side to the upcoming ICP single produced by Jack White. Jack White: “Country Girl”

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Big thanks to LB4YB for pointing out that this had made its debut. I’ll let him explain the full thing. Suffice it to say that this is a 1994 demo sent to Soma Records. You can snag this previously-unreleased track off their upcoming 3 disc compilation. Daft Punk: “Drive” (1994 demo)

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Twin Shadow’s new track is a cover of Bagarre’s Circus Is Gone. I really like where he’s going with this one. MP3: Twin Shadow – Changes (Bagarre cover)

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I’ve been getting a lot of emails about passion projects this week. The latest was about the limited edition vinyl release of Blonde Redhead’s score for the film Dungeon Masters. Not only is it going to be out on vinyl, but it’s to benefit a good cause! All the profits from the sale of the [...]

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I am not the biggest fan of Thom Yorke’s solo material. As such, forgive me for not being too wildly excited for this dense new song “Twist” (or for knowing it was a new song when I first heard it). That said, I’m sure a ton of you will be excited to hear this and [...]

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Here’s the music video for “Quail and Dumplings” off Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s upcoming album Wolfroy Goes to Town (out Oct 2011 on Drag City). Even though we’ve come to expect great things from him, this song really blew me away. This might be my favorite release of his in a while if the rest of [...]

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I decided to beef up my collection of Ted Leo covers and man were there a lot to be found! I added over a dozen, including this gem. MP3: Ted Leo/Rx – Freeway (Aimee Mann) Download over 70 covers by Ted Leo!

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