St Vincent continues to spice up her live shows with great cover choices. This time she’s pulling from Pearl Jam’s early work with this cover of “Black.” [via CoS] You can check out more St Vincent covers at the St Vincent covers archive I assembled last year.

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Last night St Vincent brought her new track “Cheerleader” to the always-receptive Conan O’Brien. She was in top form, as always (does she even have any other form?). [via AP]

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#30: Fishboy – Classic Creeps MP3: Fishboy – Aaron the Afterthought Astronaut I don’t know which I find more impressive: that this album effortlessly weaves witticisms through incredible melody or that the entire album tells a complexly involved story. It’s easy to be dismissive of some pop records, but labels like “simplistic” just don’t stick [...]

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2011 was (another) odd year for music. It felt like the average quality of albums was raised a bit, but nothing really stood out as a life-changing album or single of the year. Still, there was a lot of great music to be heard. Here’s fifty of my favorite tracks from the year, ranging from [...]

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Annie Clark took to Jimmy Fallon’s show last night to perform her cover of the Pop Group’s “She Is Beyond Good and Evil.” I would never have paired her up with the Pop Group, but I’m beyond glad that she decided to start covering them — this is such a gem. [via Audio Perv and [...]

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St Vincent has a solid track record of choosing great bands to cover (seriously: Tom Waits, Big Black and Pop Group? That girl’s a music snob). Here’s another great one to add to the collection. MP3: St Vincent – She Is Beyond Good and Evil (Pop Group) Download this and more at the St Vincent [...]

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Given that her beautiful new album comes out tomorrow, I thought this would be a great time to put together a collection of all the covers St Vincent has done over the years. Must’ve been a popular idea, since CoS beat me to it by compiling some youtube streams of her greatest covers. I’ve got [...]

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St Vincent’s upcoming record Strange Mercy is out September 13. But even though it’ll be another week until we can get our hands on the vinyl copy (St Vincent on wax is a glorious thing), you can stream the entire thing right now. Stream Strange Mercy over at NPR

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Annie hit up the Spin offices to support her upcoming album Strange Mercy (out Sept 13). She did an acoustic version of “Surgeon” off her new record and then covered Tom Waits’ “Tango Til They’re Sore.” Watch St Vincent perform acoustically at Spin

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