Category: video
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Tower Defense covers “A Forest”
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Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U
Most of us know this song via Sinéad O’Connor’s version, but the Prince Estate just released this recording from 1984, with footage from rehearsals with the Revolution.
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Laura Marling Covers Dylan
(via Paste)
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AV Club Undercover Video Series
Not sure how I missed this, but a series the AV Club at the Onion has been doing since 2010, in which bands come in and do cover songs in the AV Club offices in Chicago. Here’s the YouTube playlists: A.V. Club Undercover 2010 A.V. Club Undercover 2011 A.V. Club Undercover 2012 A.V. Club Undercover…
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KCRW VR App
The fine folks at KCRW have introduced a VR app, which you can use with viewers like Cardboard and your Android or iOS phone, to view performances from the KCRW studios. Lots of wonderful performances come through KCRW studios, so I’m really happy to see this. Not sure if I’m yet brave enough to travel…
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Steve Martin & Edie Brickell “Won’t Go Back”
Loved their last collaboration – looking forward to the release of So Familiar. Official Store Amazon
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Daft Labeouf
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Androgynous
(via Stereogum) And they love each other so, closer than you know . . .
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Laura Marling – Strange
(via Stereogum) Stereogum shared this video (which they found via DIY) of Marling doing another new tune from her upcoming album Short Movie. Other tunes previously previewed (also discovered via Stereogum): and
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FourFiveSeconds
(via everywhere) Rihanna, Kanye West, and Sir Paul McCartney – first single from Rihannah’s new album. What is Sir Paul doing here? As Cuepoint’s DJ Louie XIV put it, it looks like: Paul McCartney, the founder of modern music as we know it, is now thrilled just to be the guitar player in Rihanna’s band.
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Talking Heads at the Capitol Theatre 1980
(Via Aquarium Drunkard) – Talking Heads live in New Jersey in 1980. Also from Aquarium Drunkard – Talking Heads Live in Rome 1980:
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Colin Meloy “Carolina Low” Live at WFUV
Colin Meloy “Carolina Low” Live at WFUV
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José González Covering TLC’s “Waterfalls”
(via Stereogum via Pitchfork) Love it – there’s also a cover of John Lennon’s “Woman” from later in the show, starting at 51:05:
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Weird Al Gets Tacky
Via Nerdist, the (vegan) Weird Al Yankovic takes on Pharrell’s Happy. Al will be releasing 8 videos in 8 days on his site, promoting his new album Mandatory Fun.
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New Mary Gauthier
My wife and I were just talking the other day about it being time for some new music from Mary Gauthier, and today I got an email that she announced her new album, Trouble and Love, due out in May, and included this video of her performing one of the songs from it. The audio…
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Best Cover Songs of 2013
Paste today put out their list of the 15 best cover songs of 2013. It’s got some of the expected items – Fiona Apple’s “Pure Imagination” from the creepy chipotle ad, for example – but also a few I really dug: The first is Iron & Wine, Glen Hansard, Kathleen Edwards, and Calexico doing The…
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Ben Sollee – The Hollow Sessions
Ben Sollee is a wonderful cellist from Kentucky who plays all kinds of music not traditionally played on the cello. The Hollow Sessions is a recent free download of covers, including The Zombies’ This Will Be Our Year and Paul Simon’s Obvious Child. We saw Ben at the ICA last month (through World Music /…
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Elvis Costello Friday
Two quick Elvis Costello videos. First a9bove), the lead single from the upcoming album in collaboration with The Roots, “Will You Walk Us Uptown”: Second, a video from the ONE project, Elvis Costello with Mumford & Sons, doing Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad “(with a bit of Woody Guthrie’s “Do-Re-Mi” thrown in for…