10. Matt and Kim – “Daylight” 9. Lady GaGa – “Bad Romance“ 8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – “John Finn’s Wife“ 7. Booker T and the MGs – “Stranger on the Shore” 6. Johann Sebastian Bach – “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” 5. The Antlers – “Two“ 4. Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali [...]

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Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon , great song The ’59 Sound – Gaslight Anthem Love Is Noise – The Verve, William Blake paraphrased over a Tomorrow Never Knows backdrop. so awesome. Human – The Killers , released today and even an average Killers track is still pretty freaking good Play Your Part (Pt. [...]

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There have been quite a few songs in the past couple years which are either remakes of or heavily inspired by stuff from the early 80s. Off the top of my head: “Talk” by Coldplay, a remake of “Computer Love” by Kraftwerk. This is my favorite of the new remakes, and Partyben’s mashup of the [...]

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http://www.hurratorpedo.org/Hurra Torpedo is the world’s leading kitchen appliance rock group. Since 1993 they have played for full houses all over their native Norway with their eclectic mixture of cover tunes and original material. Now, thanks to the wonders of the internet, their heartbreaking version of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart is known all [...]

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UPDATE: I’m an idiot, Andrews Sisters has four esses! Ok, so I’m minding my own business on Friday and reading this AP article about Greg Oden. I love how they throw in off the cuff quotes now and then and this one, where Oden is discussing his history of music course, caught my eye: “The [...]

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Nice dynamic webpage which scours the ‘net for all those mp3s laying around:SeeqPod Music (beta). You can leisurely listen and compose fair use reviews of all that intellectual property. Then, when you want to download the NBC Nightly News (not sure why you would do that), search Youtube easily and save the vids locally, or [...]

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Florian Schneider from Kraftwerk on the bass. Klaus Schulze from Tangerine Dream at the keyboards. And, to top it off, Marian Gold from Alphaville on lead vocals. Does it get any cheesier than this? Nothing like watching synthpop gods from one’s youth in their middle age. Now all we need is a mashup of Kraftwerk’s [...]

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“Phantom Limb” – The Shins Actually, the whole new album is great. “Intervention” – Arcade Fire Can’t wait til this is officially released. Here’s a youtube clip with the audio. “Dashboard” – Modest Mouse I’m so out of the loop as I just found the other day that Johnny Marr joined them. Not often that [...]

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Some thoughts on Acclaimed Music: Surprises: Roxy Music at 41th overall for artists really surprised me as I only really knew them from Love is the Drug and More than This. I guess they more critical acclaim than I had realized. Kraftwerk, who I love, at 59th surprises me as well. Highest ranked Album, Song [...]

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Here’s one from Fuzzbox. Check out the scary Barbarella dominatrix outfits and the marionette homage to the Thunderbirds.

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