Berkeley Place posted his Top Ten reasons to love David Bowie covers. He missed our #1.
From M. Ward’s Transfiguration Of Vincent:
“Let’s Dance”
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Starlee Kine is a contributor for This American Life, which recently produced an episode about breaking up and the heartache that follows.
Starlee and her boyfriend were fans of Phil Colins. After breaking up with her boyfriend, Starlee decided to write a song about her heartache and consulted Phil Colins for advice on writing a song. She came up with a song, “The Three of Us,” with the help of musicians Joe McGinty and Julia Greenberg. TAL held a remix / cover contest where listeners could submit a version of “The Three of Us.” The winners were posted on Friday. These are our favorites.
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The Summer Darlings
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The nominees for the 2008 Independent Music Awards have been announced. The following artists have been nominated for the album of the year.
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge)
Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)
Battles – Mirrored (Warp)
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing)
El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux)
Justice – † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
Panda Bear – Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (self-released)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
The National – Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
You should vote. The great thing about the PLUG voting process is you can listen to a complete song from each album right on their website before you make your decision. The songs stream into each other so you can start it up and do something else while you listen. Furthermore, we’ve written about some of these albums on Brontosaur.us if you would like to reference some of the music we are streaming here.
We saw The Foals open for Band of Horses during CMJ at the Bowery Ballroom. Since then we’ve had on heavy rotation every song by The Foals that we downloaded off The Hype Machine. The band is described as dance-punk, kind of bordering on math rock — one of their songs is called “Mathletics.” We are not interested in debates about taxonomy here. The Foals sound a bit like Bloc Party (maybe it’s the English accents) and sort of like a beautiful alarm clock (if that’s possible).
The Foals only have four singles. Feast on this and you’ll be salivating for their impending album:
From Mathletics / Big Big Love Fig. 1:
“Big Big Love Fig.1″
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Gorillavsbear.net has two nice covers on their site right now. Jens Lekman covers Paul Simon‘s “You Can Call Me Al” and Chromatics cover Bruce Springsteen‘s “I’m on Fire“.
