Throw Me the Statue, Grand Archives, Bon Iver, Science for Girls, and The Gutter Twins have bombarded my feedreader this past week and as such I’ve made an effort to grit my teeth and succumb to the hype, lest I fall behind and be unable to converse with the Pitchfork reading illuminati and DC hipsters […]
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Succumb to the Hype, week of Feb 23rd
February 23rd, 2008
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Mark E. Smith for President
February 18th, 2008
Ok, maybe not. Listening to The Wonderful and Frightening World of… tonight inspired some YouTube trudging and resulted in this entertaining Beeb bit. The man is a legend and deserves his own Bank Holiday. (part 2, 3, etc… [9 parts total] As a bonus, here’s my favorite track from The Wonderful and Frightening World of… […]
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Buenas Tardes, Weeners!
February 18th, 2008
In celebration of our newest guests, the very vocal and always eloquent Ween(er) Lovers of Ween.net, I’d like to formally welcome you to Drawer B with one of my all-time favorite Ween tracks, Buenas Tardes Amigos, from 1994’s Chocolate and Cheese. Ween – Buenas Tardes Amigos
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God, I hate this song: Ween “Your Party”
February 12th, 2008
It’s been a really long time since I found Ween amusing. College, I guess. I mean, when was the last time you played with a whoopee cushion? Honestly, by the time Pure Guava came out I’d had my fill of shrill indulgent nonsense. I’m sure Gene and Dean Ween have written a few more decent […]
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Remixes are for kids #4 Feist v. K-Os
February 8th, 2008
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)
Remixes are for kids #3 Jens Lekman v. Spoolwork
February 1st, 2008
Via the blog Pasta Primavera comes this reworking of Lekman’s “I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You” by Chicago’s Spoolwork. The original can be found on Lekman’s 2007 release Night Falls Over Kortedala (which just so happened to be my favorite record of ’07). Jens Lekman – I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love […]
Remixes are for kids #2 – Mark Robinson v. Stephin Merritt
January 31st, 2008
It’s not too often that Merritt’s work gets the remix treatment. A shame, actually, as his tunes are often so solidly constructed that they work acoustic as well as synthed out. Proving the point, here are two great tastes that go great together; Mark Robinson’s remix of Merritt’s Smoke and Mirrors from the Magnetic Fields’ […]