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I posted a link to the Matt Mulholland cover of Rebecca Black's Friday on Facebook the other day and today that resulted in a minor link-fest. So here's the cover:

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It's a fantastic transformation of the transformation of a too-fine example of the vapidity of pop music into a poignant meditation on the loneliness of urban life ( Read more... )

Straight outta Denmark, a crazy RPGnetter called hafwit has passed on a musical meme. This one goes a little something like this: Comment with a request, and I'll give you a letter. You post five favorite songs/music videos that start with that letter ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about place and space a lot recently, so when Octopushat made a list of his five favourite songs about Los Angeles, I decided to do the same. I've been wanting to write something about L.A. for a while, in part inspired by coming across this blog post while trying to find out more about the second song on this list ( Read more... )

I saw an interview with Street Chant before the Big Day Out this year, and struck both by the vitality of their punk aesthetic and their youth. They remind me a lot of She's Insane, among other NZ bands of the 90s. The trio have attracted a bit of attention in the NZ music scene, picked up a few awards and toured with a few great bands already (The ( Read more... )

I picked up the digital version of Amanda Palmer's latest album Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under this morning. It's a real mix. Some absolute gold, and a lot of "meh". 'Australia' sounds a lot like some of her earlier work ('Astronaut' in the verses, something different, but also familiar in the chorus). On an Unknown Beach, Bad Wine and Lemon Cake, ( Read more... )

Excellent news!

This is Dee Snider covering Frank Sinatra's "It Was a Very Good Year" (h/t to Cover Me:

SIN-atra - It Was A Very Good Year feat. Dee Snider by Eagle Rock Entertainment

The album, featuring classic and hair metal artists and called SIN-atra, is coming at the end of March. More details, including a track listing at Kik Axe Music, ( Read more... )

Reformat the Planet is a documentary about the chiptune movement, which takes as its narrative centre the 2006 Blip Festival held at the Tank art space in New York.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

If Hulu works in your region, you can watch it here. If not, it's split into seven parts on Penny Arcade TVI haven't been as big into chiptunes as I have other kinds of geek music, but ( Read more... )

Another collection of links in an attempt to make a dent in my backlog of browser tabs:

On the New York Times website, Mark Greif has written a Bourdieuian analysis of hipster culture and why the term is used as ab insult: The Hipster in the Mirror (subscription required ( Read more... )

I should have been playing Dresden Files right now, but the bug that took advantage of my con-weaked immune system had other ideas, so instead I'm catching up on my neglected Google Reader.
Mostly, several recent Zero Punctuations. This one's a classic (I wanted to embed it, but The Escapist's embedding appears to be borked ( Read more... )