The quasi-reunited Led Zeppelin (no John Bonham, no Led Zeppelin) has been rehearsing its classics in a lower key to accommodate the fact that Robert Plant can’t squeeze his lemon tight enough to eke out the high notes anymore, which is exactly why a Led Zeppelin reunion should not be happening. I don’t know why fans are [...]

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Iceland’s Seabear(official site) deliver a precious cover of John Peel’s all-time fave, The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks.
Seabear’s 2007 release The Ghost that Carried Us Away, was released by Morr.
Bonus:
Here are some tracks from Seabear’s 2004 Self-Released EP, Singing Arc.
Singing Arc
Also, while we’re covering covers made by bands on Morr, Seavault covers Ultra Vivid Scene’s Mercy Seat. [...]

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“After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their [...]

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Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good has a nice collection of downloadable tracks that work well with Phase, the iTunes/iPod video game.
Personally, I’ve enjoying playing Phase with DJ Shadow, Depeche Mode, Death Becomes Even The Maiden, and Smashing Pumpkins. Oh, and Future Sound of London. I tried Battles, but it was a [...]

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Ahead of the Neo-Shoegazing resurgence by at least 5 years, Virginia’s Skywave [1995-2003] channeled My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain and more. An experience they apparently parlayed into an effects pedal business, appropriately named Death by Audio. Today it would appear that they are producing records [scroll right] by some of the [...]

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Via that non-carnivorous brooklynite comes word and mp3 of 2 new Gang of Four demo tracks. (courtesy of Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen’s wonderful blog, pampelmoose. more here.)
gang of four - password

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Jens Lekman does Paul Simon, live (sans chorus). Portland 11/7/2007.

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Ever really wanted to a hear a song but not have access to your iTunes, iPod or iPhone?  Enter Songza.  Calling itself the “the music search engine & internet jukebox,” Songza allows you to listen any song they have in their database, rate it and possibly share or recommend it to a friend.  Possibly a [...]

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Get Weird Turn Pro is an mp3 blog focused on featuring an assortment of remixes of songs by artists such as Architecture in Helsinki, The Killers, Bloc Party, and JUSTICE, even Hilary Duff, as well as providing a weekly Friday mix.

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To complete the circle, somewhat. A while back I asked if anyone had ever heard Eno’s Music For Airports playing in, well, an airport. Pat, lacking access to a specific Music For Airports playing airport, decides to bring Music For Airports with him to an airport of his choosing.

I figured that I could [...]

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“Let’s Get High” by Dr. Dre mashed up with Joy Division’s “A Means to An End.” You’ll just have to listen:
“Let’s Get High Joy Division Style” mp3

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Ryan Adams’ alter-egos are tiny windows into the man’s genuine insanity. He looks like Roy Orbison on acid in this deliberately lo-fi clip. Hilarious and uncomfortable at the same time. Get off my spaceship, bitch!

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Evan Dando recently told Billboard that his resurrected version of The Lemonheads is set to release a new album next spring. Recording will begin in January, but Dando is tight-lipped about the whole thing because he’s afraid of jinxing it. He’s not back on the crack again is he? Considering the ho-hum return of The [...]

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I guess it takes a fan revolt to force Prince into writing his best song in years. After threatening to sue his own fans for posting his likeness on their fan sites devoted to him, Prince has taken his tirade one step further: he’s written a diss song about the whole situation. When the fan [...]

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So, Thom Yorke shoots down Paul McCartney for a duet request. He is a Beatle, but I still don’t blame Yorke’s decision. What’s Paul done for you lately? Or in 20 years? The Starbucks record? Poor Paul had to comment on the rebuff publicly, explaining how Yorke had said “he couldn’t because he only [...]

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Tool’s Maynard James Keenan sat down with a real smart-like interviewer from Suicide Girls to talk Puscifer- his new band with former members of Primus and Nine Inch Nails. And Milla Jovovich is involved in some capacity. Here’s to hoping she doesn’t contribute much. V is for Vagina is out now on Pucifer Ent, which [...]

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“In 1967 I hired Frank Zappa to score a :30 second animated TV Comercial for Luden’s Cough Drops fot $2,000. We won a Clio for “THE BEST USE OF SOUND”. It was the beginning of a two year relationship that had me filming 14 hours of footage as I traveled with The Original Mothers Of [...]

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In case you missed Conrad Keely’s Interscope bashing screed on Trail of Dead’s official website just over a week ago, fear not, as the cached version shall live on, having made the rounds across everyone’s RSS feeder, anyway. The band’s manager, Asif Ahmed, has since fielded questions regarding Keely’s diatribe and the band’s split from Interscope, saying it [...]

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David Byrne goes to IKEA for the first time and makes a video game out of the experience.
“Why does everything have weird names? Every container, shelf, cabinet or appliance had some odd name, as if people from Planet Sweden anthropomorphized these objects, naming each one they encountered as best they could”

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I wonder if they’re taking requests… (via Dead Flowers)
I’ve always liked Dean Wareham’s cover of Ceremony.

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