The Modern Age

I just turned on my local NPR station, WNYC, tonight and I heard this awesome song that sounded like the Talking Heads on John Schaefer’s show “New Sounds”…but I had never heard it before. Not that I’m a Talking Heads connoisseur or anything, so it wasn’t a surprise I didn’t know it–but I just couldn’t [...]

NAME: Milkymee
HOMETOWN: Paris, France via Stockholm, Sweden
WEBSITE: http://www.tsunami-addiction.com/milkymee.htm

Lets face it, DRM MP3s suck because they ball and chain you to a music playing device. I rather buy CDs and rip them myself instead of buying stuff off the iTunes store. But now music geeks and devoted fans of indie record store Other Music will have a chance to buy DRM-free music off [...]

NAME: The Holloways
HOMETOWN: London, Holloway, United Kingdom
WEBSITE: http://www.the-holloways.com/

HOW I HEARD ABOUT THEM: I was listening to my friend Imran’s awesome BBC 6 music radio show called This Music Week and The Holloways were doing a cover of “Starman” [MP3] in honor of David Bowie’s birthday.
LATEST RELEASE: So This Is Great Britain? [TVT Records, BUY]
SONG [...]

Everyone knows I love The Cinematics AND I love Beck, so you can imagine how overjoyed I was to hear this cover of Scotland’s own Cinematics covering Becks’ “Sunday Sun”, which is featured on the ‘Matics “Break” EP.

DOWNLOAD: “Sunday Sun” by The Cinematics
The band’s debut full-length A Strange Education is due in late-February, with a [...]

What happens when the Whirlwind Heat boys and Devonte Hynes from the defunct Test Icicles get together and noodle around the recording studio? A joint project called Lightspeed Heat.
Check out one of their songs, “How Do You Do” (Thanks James!):
DOWNLOAD: “How Do You Do” by Lightspeed Heat

Weren’t able to make it to Sondre Lerche at Barnes and Noble last week, you can now listen to his interview on BN.com. He talks about his childhood ponytail, Cole Porter, and his new album, the Duper Sessions. Features him singing “Everyone’s Rooting for You”, “Minor Detail”, and “I Want to Call It Love”.

LISTEN: [...]

I’m not going to vouch that this MP3 of U2 allegedly covering Albert Hammond Jr.’s song, “Obstinate” (which appeared on the “In Transit” documentary DVD) is real…but if it is, I’m VERY confused.
Someone PLEASE suss this out.
UPDATE: U2 wasn’t covering Albert. Albert was playing tracks off his new solo album for the band.

Check Jed’s blog for the link to the MP3 of the version of “Mercy Mercy Me” featuring Julian Casablancas, Eddie Vedder, and Josh Homme.
DOWNLOAD: “Mercy Mercy Me” by Julian Casablancas, Eddie Vedder, and Josh Homme

Love Monkey alert. When I went to the loo after watching Flashy Python at Joe’s Pub, look at what was staring back at me…T.Geig!

In related news…
Scott has a link up to a video of Teddy Geiger doing a cover of Postal Service’s “Brand New Colony”. (Link via Nora.) But want to listen to it over [...]