Continuing from the last post . . . G is for David Gray. Not my favorite artist, but he does a good job with this, one of my favorite Dylan songs. Buckets of Rain-David Gray H is for hip hop! Masters of War (Bob Dylan cover)-The Roots I is for I Want You (Bob Dylan)/Dead [...]

I know what you’re thinking: Bob Dylan covers? Really? How common. True enough. Bobby D may be the most covered songwriter in pop music history. But these covers are different. These covers are ones that I like, and some are pretty rare (or at least haven’t turned up in the blogosphere of late). There’s so [...]

Nicolay (of Foreign Exchange) is somewhat similar in style to 9th Wonder, in that he tends to favor swirling keyboards and a big sound. On Time:Line, he teams with a Houston rapper named Kay (of the Houston-based group, Example), whose really not that different from Phonte, also of Foreign Exchange (and also of 9th Wonder [...]

Just a few reasons to visit Deaf Indie Elephants, my favorite bilingual blog. The Arcade Fire – Wave of Mutilation (Pixies Cover) The Arcade Fire – All The Umbrellas in London (Magnetic Fields Cover) Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics cover)-Bat for Lashes 7 Nation Army-Kate Nash (White Stripes cover)

For set one, go here. 1. Magnificent 7 2. Wrong Em Boyo 3. Career Opportunties 4. Somebody Got Murdered 5. Brand New Cadillac 6. I Fought the Law 7. Armagideon Time 8. Should I Stay or Should I Go 9. Clampdown 10.Straight to Hell ZIP FILE

I’ve always hoped that what I do here moves money out of wallets and into record sales. Nothing ridiculous–I know nothing I review here will lead to Britney sales. But if just one of you bought one record you saw here, every day, that would be 365 more records sold this year than if this [...]

I’ve been holding on to these for a while now. Not sure why I’ve been so stingy. Killer Parties-Hold Steady! w/Ian Catskilkin of Art Brut Southtown Girls-Hold Steady! w/Ian Catskilkin of Art Brut

Siluh Records offers an excellent EP for a great price (free), by retro native New Yorkers, We the They. Their calling it an EP, but at just three songs, it hardly lives up to the name “extended play.” Which is too bad, because I was really digging the Beach Boys/Doo Wop sound. The band does [...]

The first song on Miwa Gemini’s new record, “Picnic,” is a somewhat creepy song that brings to mind Tom Waits (but with a better singer) and Bjork (but with more linear songwriting). After all that quiet longing, the record transports us to barroom blues/country, with “Traveling Man” (“My man’s a traveling man/He don’t tell me [...]

As promised, more Clash. My goal is to never go more than a couple without something Clash related. Lots of folks know that the Clash’s 1982 Jamaica show is one of their greatest of all time. But this, sometimes more overlooked bootleg, is probably the finest quality (in terms of sound) that I’ve ever heard. [...]