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“Quirky pop comes and goes, but it’s refreshing for a band to make you actually feel the sugary onomatopoeia the genre gets its name from. If you’re looking for a Shins-lite kind of band with a Paul Simon twist, Cambridge, Mass.,-based duo You Won’t are available to provide your next summer soundtrack.”
The song is “Television.”
I’m not sure why Eddie Vedder decided to transition from grunge rocker to sentimental folk singer. Was he not getting enough girls with the flannel shirts, crowd-surfing, and cameos in Bridget Fonda movies?
Here he is performing Mark Seymour’s song “Throw Your Arms Around Me.”
I’ve often dreamed about having my own bar. In that bar I’d have a jukebox with a very small selection of songs and a mainstay would be The Allman Brothers’ “Whipping Post.”
This is English folk singer Laura Marling performing a live acoustic version of the song.
(via This Song Is Sick)
“This past December 30th and 3st for New Years Pretty Lights did it HUGE for his home state of Colorado. He had a 2 night run at the 1st bank center with support from Porter Robinson, Zedd, SuperVision, and Paul Basic. This video shows the epic 2 nights, alongside a brand new single ‘You Get High.’ “
I previously posted a video of Eef Barzelay performing Journey’s “Faithfully” for AV Undercover. Barzelay’s rendition was such a hit that a studio version was featured in the television show Californication.
Barzelay is at it again with another Journey cover that would make Steve Perry proud. This is “Don’t Stop Believin’.”
If Josh Tillman, formerly of Fleet Foxes, is attempting to distance himself from the forlorn tones of his former group, he’s doing it in baby steps.
Now performing under the name Father John Misty, Tillman’s vocals are still somber, but the rest of the effort exudes a more optimistic quality than a listener would find in the Fleet Foxes’ catalog.
The song is “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings.”
The first time I heard Buddy Holly’s “Everyday” was as I watched Gordie Lachamp, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio trek along a set of train tracks in Stand By Me, the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Body.
This is Nicki Bluhm covering the Buddy Holly track in her tour van.
(contributed by @Ray_Schmitt)
“Patrick Sweany’s ‘Them Shoes’ will be 5 years old on Tuesday, but as of last night it was brand new to me.
I have always had an affinity for songs where the singer sings in tune with the lead guitar (when I was 15 I described this as ‘the way Brad Nowell sings in “Under My Voodoo’”). Check out the live version for a grimey-bluesy version that shows off Sweany’s blues chops.”
I’ve always thought “Cortez the Killer” is the rock music equivalent of “The Aristocrats,” but obviously without the uptick in vulgarity on each, subsequent performance.
It seems that everyone has covered it, and with each new version it gets longer and more involved.
Here’s a 20 minute rendition by Built to Spill.
(via Hungry Ipod)
“Passion Pit returns with their long-awaited sophomore LP, Gossamer, which drops on July 24th. They have now unleashed the first listen from the album with ‘The Walk.’ “
