I was expecting this cover of Kim Carnes’ 1981 #1 hit “Bettie Davis’ Eyes” to be beyond awful, but Leighton Meester a/k/a Blair Waldorf of Gossip Girl can actually sing. And pretty damn well. With decent phrasing and everything. The music is sort of cheesy electro faddish, but Meester’s vocals save it. Apparently, she’s working […]
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Blair Waldorf sings!
September 15th, 2008
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Listen to Damon Albarn’s Monkey Opera
August 21st, 2008
I was hugely annoyed that I couldn’t work out catching Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West when it played at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC back in June. Word on the street is that it lived up to the hype. It won’t be quite the same experience, but the recordings are now available […]
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The Faint’s Fasciinatiion streaming on MySpace
August 3rd, 2008
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with The Faint for the better part of a decade. Blank Wave Arcade was awesome. Danse Macabre, eh, not so much. And Wet from Birth had its moments (I must admit I played the mother eff out of “I Disappear”). So, it is with both trepidation and anticipation that I […]
Tom Waits in Atlanta’s Fox, streamed
July 29th, 2008
The always entertaining Tumblog About Today points us to an NPR stream of Waits’ July performance in Hotlanta, ’08.
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Stream new Cursive
May 18th, 2008
Tim Kasher’s evolving mainstay, Cursive, has been playing a smattering of live shows recently to work out the kinks on some new material in preparation for entering the studio to record the follow-up to 2006’s under-appreciated Happy Hollow. The band just finished a live session at Daytrotter, playing a slow, loose, and tortured version of […]
New Wedding Present single is strictly digital
May 8th, 2008
For a band that once released a new 7″ vinyl single every month for an entire year, going completely digital must feel like a shock to the system, but The Wedding Present has succumbed to technology with the release of “The Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend”, a true to form single […]
Costello to CD’s: Momofuku
May 6th, 2008
Elvis Costello’s been very public about his annoyance with making records in today’s iPod culture of instant consumption, so to acknowledge the impending death of the compact disc, Costello has issued his new record, Momofuku (explanation here), in only digital and vinyl formats. That’s right, no CD’s. So, he’s taking care of the hardcore fans […]