Wild Nothing
Wild Nothing is the brainchild of Jack Tatum.
Hailing from Virginia, his music features jangling guitars and pop melodies.
“Nowhere” is the new single and free.
Lopsided World of L
Our week begins once again with so much new music from Jonathan L.
Lopsided World of L (Hour 1)
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Lopsided World of L (Hour 2)
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*Buck Satin And The 666 Shooters “Down The Drain”
*Blue October “The Money Tree”
*Ugly Buggs “Young Girl”
Shirley Levi “Re-Bel”
*Brian “Head” Welch “Paralyzed”
Joey Ramone personal message (interlude)
Joey Ramone “Spirit In My House” (2002)
*Childish Gambino “Backpackers”
*The Love Me Nots “End Of The Line”
*Source Victoria “All That You Taught Me”
*Angels And Airwaves “Surrender”
*Super Geek League “Here Come The Cops”
*Super Geek League “Fight (Book 1)”
*Ben Kweller “Mean To Me”
*[:SITD:] “Beacon Of Hope”
*Cross Border Players f/ Gift Of Gab “Higher”
*The Strange Boys “Me And You”
*Tremor Low “Peter Murphy’s Dead”
*Primus “Hoinfodaman”
*Gary Numan “When The Sky Bleeds He Will Come”
*Blue October “For The Love”
*Feritta “Karma”
*The Shins “Simple Song”
*The Vibe “Suicidal Happiness”
Spacehog “Dancing On My Own” (2001)
*Stellar Corpses “Vampire Kiss”
*Canasta “Mexico City”
*Mona “Lean Into The Fall”
*Heartless Bastards “Parted Ways”
Porcelain Raft
When we last heard from Porcelain Raft he was living in London via Rome. We featured his 2010 EP Gone Blind.
Now living in New York, he has released his debut album Strange Weekend.
“Drifting In and Out” leads the album and is another lovely song from this itinerant musician.
Air
Air, the French electronic duo, has just released La Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon).
The title is from a silent black & white film from 1902. Directed by Georges Méliès, La Voyage Dans La Lune is considered to be the first science fiction film.
In 1993 a hand-coloured, badly decomposed version of the film was discovered and only last year was fully restored.
Air was asked to compose a soundtrack for this 16 minute film.
Inspired by the experience Air gives us an album of the same name.
“Seven Stars” is from the album and features the vocals of Victoria Legrand from Beach House.
Watch an excerpt from the film here.
St. Vincent
Strange Mercy by St. Vincent was one of my favorite albums of last year.
“Cheerleader” is the new single and new video.
And the song is free from Google Music in the US only.
Lopsided World of L
He scours the world for new music.
From Berlin, our Monday podcast from Jonathan L.
Lopsided World of L (Hour 1)
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Lopsided World of L (Hour 2)
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*The Ivy Walls “She Was European”
*Immortal Technique “Goonies Never Die”
The Cult “Dirty Little Rockstar” (2007)
*Jeryl Bright/M.C.B. “Feels So Right”
*Humbucker “Black Nickel”
*Lee-Leet “Leave It All Behind”
*Angelsplit “Jailbait”
*Rebelution “Sky Is The Limit”
*Victorian Halls “It All Started In The Hall”
*Vaudeville & Bad Omens “Cannon Fodder”
The Damned “My Desire” (1995)
*Immortal Technique “Angels & Demons”
*One Black Orchid “Poor Folks Lament”
*Saint Motel “Puzzle Pieces”
Neon Trees “Everybody Talks”
*Little Shalimar f/ Killer Mike “Melting”
*Gift Of Destiny “Play That Funky Music” (Wild Cherry cover)
*Say Anything “Burn A Miracle”
Hanzel Und Gretyl “Fukken Uber Death Party (2009)
*The Astroids Galaxy “Heart Attack” (CSS remix)
*The Trophy Fire “Modern Hearts”
*Panamah “Looking Up” (English version)
*The Dead Milkmen “Some Young Guy”
*Yael Meyer “I Wonder How”
*Abigail Williams “Ascension Sickness”
*Annie Automatic “Then We All Woke Up”
*Sonic Adventure Project “Who Are You?”
*Two Choices “My Side Of The Street”
Ke$ha: Chimes of Freedom
I never expected to highlight Ke$ha on this website. However, her version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” begs to be heard on the album Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.
Dylan is our greatest living contemporary poet and his words helped define the latter half of the 20th century. His songs have been covered countless times and this set of 75 additional versions featuring 80 artists from very diverse musical genres adds to the catalog.
Here is the tracklisting:
DISC 1
Raphael Saadiq: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Patti Smith: Drifter’s Escape
Rise Against: Ballad of Hollis Brown
Tom Morello the Nightwatchman: Blind Willie McTell
Pete Townshend: Corrina, Corrina
Bettye LaVette: Most of the Time
Charlie Winston: This Wheel’s On Fire
Diana Krall: Simple Twist of Fate
Brett Dennen: You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Mariachi El Bronx: Love Sick
Ziggy Marley: Blowin’ in the Wind
The Gaslight Anthem: Changing of the Guards
Silversun Pickups: Not Dark Yet
My Morning Jacket: You’re A Big Girl Now
The Airborne Toxic Event: Boots of Spanish Leather
Sting: Girl from the North Country
Mark Knopfler: Restless Farewell
DISC 2
Queens of the Stone Age: Outlaw Blues
Lenny Kravitz: Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35
Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli: One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
Blake Mills: Heart of Mine
Miley Cyrus: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Billy Bragg: Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Elvis Costello: License to Kill
Angelique Kidjo: Lay, Lady, Lay
Natasha Bedingfield: Ring Them Bells
Jackson Browne: Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Joan Baez: Seven Curses (Live)
The Belle Brigade: No Time To Think
Sugarland: Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You (Live)
Jack’s Mannequin: Mr. Tambourine Man
Oren Lavie: 4th Time Around
Sussan Deyhim: All I Really Want To Do
Adele: Make You Feel My Love (Recorded Live at WXPN)
DISC 3
K’NAAN: With God on Our Side
Ximena Sariñana: I Want You
Neil Finn with Pajama Club: She Belongs to Me
Bryan Ferry: Bob Dylan’s Dream
Zee Avi: Tomorrow Is a Long Time
Carly Simon: Just Like a Woman
Flogging Molly: The Times They Are A-Changin’
Fistful of Mercy: Buckets of Rain
Joe Perry: Man of Peace
Bad Religion: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
My Chemical Romance: Desolation Row (Live)
RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren: Abandoned Love
Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales: New Morning
Cage the Elephant: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Band of Skulls: It Ain’t Me, Babe
Sinéad O’Connor: Property of Jesus
Ed Roland and the Sweet Tea Project: Shelter From the Storm
Ke$ha: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Kronos Quartet: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
DISC 4
Maroon 5: I Shall Be Released
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Political World
Seal & Jeff Beck: Like a Rolling Stone
Taj Mahal: Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
Dierks Bentley: Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Live)
Mick Hucknall: One of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
Thea Gilmore: I’ll Remember You
State Radio: John Brown
Dave Matthews Band: All Along the Watchtower (Live)
Michael Franti: Subterranean Homesick Blues
We Are Augustines: Mama, You Been On My Mind
Lucinda Williams: Tryin’ To Get To Heaven
Kris Kristofferson: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Eric Burdon: Gotta Serve Somebody
Evan Rachel Wood: I’d Have You Anytime
Marianne Faithfull: Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live)
Pete Seeger: Forever Young
Bob Dylan: Chimes of Freedom
DIGITAL ONLY
Outernational: When the Ship Comes In
Silverstein: Song to Woody
Daniel Bedingfield: Man in the Long Black Coat
Everyone worked pro-bono and all proceeds help fund Amnesty International’s life-saving human rights work.
Obviously with an album of this scope there are some compelling versions, some of varying degrees of interest, some merely passable and some of lesser quality. Ke$ha’s take on “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” is an unexpected pleasure. With minimal instrumentation this otherwise bombastic pop star turns this song of loss into one of devastating heartbreak. Purists may be appalled but Ke$ha makes the song her own.
Die Antwoord
Die Antwoord, is an amazing hip-hop group from South Africa.
But hip-hop doesn’t do them justice. As their website states, Die Antwoord are a fre$, futuristik, flame-throw-flow-freeking zef rap-rave krew from da dark dangerous depths of Afrika.
Watch this video of “I Fink U Freeky” to see what I mean.
They left a major record label vying for creative control and have just released their second album, Ten$Ion, on their own ZEF Recordz label.
“I Fink U Freeky” is also a free download from RCRDLBL.
M.I.A.
M.I.A., one our favorite artist/provocateurs, has just released “Bad Girls”.
The song is a new version that first appeared on her Vicki Leekx mixtape that she made available on New Year’s Eve, 2010. Vicki Leekx is a combination of alternative versions of songs from her album Maya as well as new material purportedly inspired by the controversy over Wikileaks.
Vicki Leekx remains as a free download.
“Bad Girls”
Jack White
Jack White is so prolific it’s hard to believe that he has never released a solo album.
From The White Stripes, The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs to his numerous collaborations, guest appearances and record production, the man has been a ubiquitous musical presence since The White Stripes debuted in 1999.
Blunderbuss will be the title of his solo album due in April.
“Love Interruption” is the first single.
Lopsided World of L
More new music from around the world from Jonathan L.
Lopsided World of L (Hour1)
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Lopsided World of L (Hour 2)
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*One Black Orchid “Take A Pill”
*7Horse “Blackjack Moon”
*Neon Trees “Everybody Talks”
*Immortal Technique “Young Lords”
*Vaudeville & Bad Omens “If I Stayed Too Long Can
I Join Your Band’s Nighmares?”
*The Bees “Winter Rose” (Dan The Automator mix)
*Kasabian “Man Of Simple Pleasures”
Veva “H.E.R.”
*Rostam (Vampire Weekend) “Don’t Let It get To You”
*The Barbarellatones “The Legend Of Skunk Ape”
*All Mankind “Lover’s Song”
*Soft Pipes “Sleeper”
*Stephan Malkmus “12 Forever 28”
*Mighty Mighty Bosstones “The Package Store Petition”
The Real Tuesday Weld “You’re Going To Live”
*Indianna Dawn “I Always Miss You”
*Gary Numan “Big Noise Transmission”
*Wise Blood “Darlin’ You’re Sweet”
*Cyko Miko (Mike Muir) “Slightly”
*Michael Jasper “Partyworldwide”
*Cherri Bomb “The Pretender” (Foo Fighters cover)
*Brian Lopez “El Vagabundo”
*Endless Shame “Freakshow”
*Mind The Gap “Into The Cold”
*Felix Gortz “Lasst Mich”
*Doomtree “Beacon”
*Keep Schtum “Do It Anyway You Wanna”
Shearwater
Shearwater from Austin, Texas, was founded by former members of Okkervil River.
Jonathan Meiburg is the trio’s leader and his pure unmistakable voice is penetratingly irresistible.
We first spotlighted Shearwater here in 2010 upon the release of The Golden Archipelago.
Their 7th album, Animal Joy, is due on Valentine’s Day. “You As You Were” is a preview.
Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten’s 2010 album Epic was a showcase for her delicate yet powerful voice. We featured the song “Don’t Do It”.
Her new album Tramp is due in a couple of weeks, recorded with the help of some members of The National.
“Serpents” is the first single and a free download as well.
The Big Pink
The Big Pink is the British duo Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell.
They debuted in 2009 with A Brief History of Love featuring the wildly infectious misogynistic song “Dominos”.
They lifted an old skateboard advertisement, Future This, for the title of their new album.
“Hit the Ground (Superman)” is the current single.
Cass McCombs
Cass McCombs is an itinerant American singer/songwriter.
Last year he released two albums. The latter, his sixth, is entitled Humor Risk.
It contains this dark hypnotically beautiful song “The Same Thing”. (Free download)
“Like a ring gone down the drain
Our love in sunlight, at evening, pain
Like vermin Roman sewers bring
Pain and Love, oh yeah, are The Same Thing”