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The 25 Best Album Covers of the Decade (2000-2009)
A great album cover captures the imagination and sears itself into the brain, forever fusing its iconic imagery with the music it comes to signify... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayBeastie Boys, Beck, Santigold Remix Norah Jones
Among other collaborators, Norah Jones managed to enlist musicians who worked with Beck for her fourth studio release, The Fall. But as she revealed recently, she had originally wanted the Record Club composer himself to oversee the album.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsFeist+Arcade Fire+Beck+David Cross Halloween Video (Awesome of the Day)
Back in October 2005, Vice Records released a song called “Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?” to benefit UNICEF (and to poke fun at the patronizing attitude of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”). The band that recorded it was called the “North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative,” and its list of members from the U.S. and Canada included:... read more
Found in: Blogs, High GravityDownload Charlotte Gainsbourg's Beck-Produced Song, "IRM"
Download Charlotte Gainsbourg's "IRM" here.Gainsbourg's IRM will be released in January 2010 on Because Music/Elektra.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Free MP3Step Out Into The Light: Fourteen Covers Of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You In The End"
What is it about this song? Like almost all the music of Daniel Johnston (whose first album in six years, Is And Always Was, came out last week), it's so much more massive than the sum of its parts—just this man and his springy guitar and wavery, unsteady voice. But the words are so reassuring, so deeply comforting, promising us something that we all really want to be true, that it's really hard not to love it. And that, paired with its astounding simplicity (it ain't no "Stairway to Heaven," that's for sure), makes it ripe for the covering. Here... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayPoultry Emotion: A 20-Piece Bucket o' Classic Chicken Songs
In honor of golden-throated Kentucky chicken farmer Kevin Skinner, who won the million-dollar grand prize on America's Got Talent last week, we offer this squawkingly great list of songs about the animal this new pop-cultural phenomenon used to spend so much time looking after... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day10 Songs That Summon Sleep
There is a lot of road between Athens, Ga. and Decatur, Ga., and to keep from brooding over the gallons of gas that trickle off my gauge or the precious hours of life I spend hunched in the driver's seat during my commute, I rely on music as my one, true beacon of sanity (talk radio as my second). It is my trusty buoy for when I'm stuck in the ebb and flow of Atlanta traffic, or numbed in the limbo of bland highway expanses.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayBeck Writes, Produces Album for Charlotte Gainsbourg
For a while now, Beck's been taking a step back from making albums. His own albums, that is. Since releasing the understated Modern Guilt in 2008, he's kept busy with several different projects of other people's tunes. With his Record Club, Beck covered Velvet Underground's classic album with Nico, and Planned Obsolescence is a series of extended mixtapes.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsFifteen Songs About The Body Parts I Might Sell Just To Own Specimen's Little Horn Speakers
Right this minute, I am listening to music on my laptop's built-in speakers. I cycled through endless pairs of $10 Target earbuds until Santa Claus brought me a half-decent pair of Bose headphones a few years back, my iPod dock of choice was purchased at a store called Linens & Things, and I don't know my treble from a hole in the ground. Needless to say, I am not an audiophile. So why am I so transfixed by the Little Horn Speakers unveiled this week by Chicago-based custom guitar and amp shop Specimen? Well, just look at them. They're gorgeous.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day21 Songs About Booze: A Playlist in Honor of 95-Year-Old Bartender Angelo Cammarata
Above: Prohibition, what a waste. Angelo Cammarata, 95, is the world's longest-running bartender. He's literally been serving since a few minutes after prohibition ended in 1933—he's even in the Guinness Book and Jim Beam's Bartender Hall of Fame for his longevity slinging suds. Of course, there's more to being a barkeep than pouring drinks. As this man has presided over his family business—no-frills neighborhood bar Cammarata's Cafe in West View, Pa.—for the better part of the last century and into the new millennium, he's also been a friend and counselor to his devoted regulars. Now, Cammarata plans to retire, and... read more
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