Like every other 30-ish townie I know, I’m a sometime DJ. I’m not a DJ of the scratchascratcha variety, of course; I’m strictly from the “stand there and play songs I like” school, which usually means that I get to watch the songs that you like totally bomb in front of many people. (A few months ago, Sly and the Family Stone’s “Love City” straight-up cleared the dance floor. So I had to play one of my legion Prince requests to get everybody back out there. Sigh.) Anyway, the other day I decided to give Frankie Smith’s izzle progenitor “Double Dutch Bus” a shot. So I jumped on iTunes and bought the first version that came up, which was curiously spelled “Double Duth Bus”. I didn’t listen to it because I didn’t have time. I just burned her to a CD and jetted over to the bar.
If you ever thought that what Garbage’s “I’m Only Happy When It Rains” really needed was to sound like Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”–and to have the melodic counterpoint on its chorus snuffed out by someone who couldn’t quite hit its not-really-that-high note–then you’re going to love James… More »
I’ve been checking in with Fuse every now and again in an effort to stay “down,” and one video that’s been getting a ton of play (as in, twice a day at least) is the above cover of Dio’s “Holy Diver,” which is by Killswitch Engage. More »
In what I think must be the first time a track from the Kill Rock Stars catalog has appeared on a Pop Idol satellite–unless some brave soul out in Finland tried to tackle Karp’s “Gauze” (hey, they love the metal out there)–Australian Idol contestant Holly Weinert gave her all to “Standing In The… More »
If only the 1999 version of Mandy Moore was around to cover “Umbrella”–I suspect her cover would have a lot more oomph than this ready-for-Triple-A take on the Rihanna song that Moore performed on Yahoo! Music last week. More »
Thanks to Christopher at Paper Thin Walls for passing along the first two clips from Yo! Indie Rock Raps, the latest in a series of lighthearted attempts at minstrelsy through cover versions of the hilarious genre known as hip-hop. More »
There’s no music on the MySpace page for Yo! Indie Rock Raps yet, but we’re sure that when the samples do get posted, they will include at least one of the following: a, a “sensitive” reading of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin'”; b, a gender-flipped version of “Wait (The Whisper Song)”; or c, an emo-kid… More »