Because it is Friday and rainy and, well, you don’t really need a reason to listen to some M83, do you?

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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 […]

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It’s an odd marketing strategy to break up before the release of your first new album in 24 years, but, as bassist David J reveals, the group’s chemistry “was so volatile we actually split up.” Going Away White is out March 11, and J believes that “the record definitely feels like a final statement.” The […]

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After yesterday’s rather tame comments from Graham Coxon regarding why the Blur reunion didn’t happen as a result of a band lunch meeting, Damon Albarn has spoken up on the subject with a bit more drama, claiming that the rest of Blur “hate” him and don’t want to work with him. I’ve never gotten that […]

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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’ […]

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Holy Jeebus! You Ain’t No Picasso has a mighty large collection of Of Montreal covering all sorts of songs. A little Bowie, some Stones, Kinks, Zombies, The Who, and of course Prince. And those are just the obvious ones. With covers ranging from Royal Trux to Gnarls Barkley, there’s something for even the pickiest of […]

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I’m probably the last remaining carbon-based life form that has not heard a single note of Vampire Weekend’s newly released debut. Even this humble blog has been fairly resistant to the charms of this latest in a long succession of bands of the moment, so I feel like I’m among friends. As for the rest […]

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