By William Cody Humston on July 11, 2010
Just when you though Wilco couldn’t possibly get any busier, they got, um, busier.
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Posted in News | Tagged Nels Cline, Nonesuch, Wilco
By William Cody Humston on July 8, 2010
This week, Clem Snide frontman Eef Barzelay gives Journey’s life-on-the-road power ballad “Faithfully” an irony-free vocal-and-ukulele treatment. Whistling ensues.
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Posted in New Music, Videos | Tagged Clem Snide, Journey
By William Cody Humston on July 7, 2010
Fresh from Wilco’s recording studio, the Loft, comes the first single and title track from Mavis Staples forthcoming LP You Are Not Alone.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, New Music, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Mavis Staples, Wilco
By William Cody Humston on June 10, 2010
Hot on the heels of Forgiveness Rock Record, it’s Broken Social Scene: The Movie! Well, kind of.
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Posted in News, Videos | Tagged Arts&Crafts
By William Cody Humston on June 7, 2010
You Are Not Alone features new music written for Mavis by Tweedy, plus interpretations of songs penned by Pops Staples, Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint, John Fogerty, Rev. Gary Davis and Little Milton.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Wilco
By William Cody Humston on June 4, 2010
Floored by Four made their stage debut in August 2009, at Central Park’s SummerStage, but the super-group—led by Minutemen bassist and occasional Stooge Mike Watt—took a tad longer to bring us an actual release. The wait, it seems, is finally over, and the avant-garde dream-team will release their self-titled debut album this fall.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Mike Watt, Nels Cline
By William Cody Humston on May 26, 2010
Nick Cave and a handful of Band Seeds are set to crank out Grinderman 2 this September.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Grinderman, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
By William Cody Humston on May 22, 2010
Austin indie rockers perform songs from their new album, The Golden Archipelago, on PBS’s Emmy-award-winning live music series.
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Posted in News, Videos | Tagged Okkervil River, On Canvas, Shearwater
By William Cody Humston on May 18, 2010
This week on A.V. “Undercover,” folk rock duo Wye Oak — with a little help from Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg — take a stab at The Kinks’ “Strangers.”
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Posted in News, Videos | Tagged Shearwater, The Kinks, Wye Oak
By William Cody Humston on May 4, 2010
In arguably the most original cover to grace the “Undercover” series, The Clientele strip M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” of its Major Lazer-produced cha-chings and gunshots in favor of bass drum booms and xylophone dings.
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Posted in News, Videos | Tagged The Clientele
