In honor of Feist’s Grammy Nominations, here is K-Os’s reworking of her hit “Mushaboom” from the album Let It Die. (yes, I know the grammy nods are for her recent album, The Reminder.) Mushaboom – (K-Os mix)

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I’ve been on the fence about Kate Nash for a while, since my initial perception of her as a Lily Allen knock-off left a bad taste in my mouth, but I’ve been won over by this song, which is starting to get some airplay on Sirius’ Left of Center. I’m a sucker for her thick […]

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With the news of Beck’s reissued deluxe edition of his seminal Odelay having misprinted lyrics comes the discovery that, well, the lyrics are meaningless, anyway. Evidently, while recording Odelay, Beck laid down some scratch lyrics as placeholders, which typified his nonsensical beat-poet free-style jargon, but he liked the temporary lyrics so much that he kept […]

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Joe Queenan has an amusing piece in the Guardian today about what to do with over-the-hill rock stars. The impetus for his musings stems from the impending 50th birthdays of Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Prince this year. Rock/pop music is the only genre where age becomes an irreversible stigma, whereas in, say, Blues age is […]

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Well, they made the decision too easy for me this year: not going. Metallica? Pearl Jam? Jack Johnson? Don’t care, don’t care, and why??? After two years of phenomenal line-ups, Bonnaroo had to slip up eventually, and after rumors of a possible appearance by Led Zeppelin led to an invariably anti-climactic line-up announcement with only […]

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Metafilter says: “The band Beirut released the Flying Club Cup on October 9th, and La Blogothèque has filmed unique, one take, on the spot, mostly public ‘music videos‘ of each track.” 1- Nantes 2- Sunday Smile 3- Guyamas Sonora List continues at Metafilter.

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