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Hall & Oates to appear on 'The Cleveland Show'
According to their management, Hall & Oates will be playing a shoulder devil/angel duo to Cleveland in this week's Thanksgiving-themed episode. "Viewers can anticipate seeing them pop up in future episodes, as well," said their rep.
Super. Though I have to say, this still doesn't make me all that excited about "The Cleveland Show." I have four words for you Seth MacFarlane: Law of Diminishing Returns.
Tags: Hall & Oates, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, The Cleveland Show, I Can't Go For That
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'Do they Know it's Christmas?'
Of course they know it's Christmas. Comedy Death Ray is here to spread the message:
The group's cover of the '80s cause rock staple features Paul F. Tompkins, R.O. Manse, Tig Notaro, Rob Huebel, Patton Oswalt, Mike Phirman, Jimmy Pardo, Brian Posehn & Scott Aukerman, Garfunkel & Oates, Aimee Mann, Chris Hardwick, Paul Scheer & June Diane Raphael, Doug Benson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nick Thune, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Cracked Out, Dragon Boy Suede, Natasha Leggero, Ed Helms, and Thomas Lennon as David Bowie.
More info here.
No word yet if this conflicts on the planned indie all-star re-recording of the song spearheaded by F[censored] Up.
Tags: Paul F. Tompkins, R.O. Manse, Tig Notaro, Rob Huebel, Patton Oswalt, Mike Phirman, Jimmy Pardo, Brian Posehn, Scott Aukerman, Garfunkel & Oates, Aimee Mann, Chris Hardwick, Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Doug Benson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nick Thune, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Cracked Out, Dragon Boy Suede, Natasha Leggero, Ed Helms, Thomas Lennon, David Bowie, F'ed Up, Do They Know It's Christmas, Comedy Death Ray, Christmas Music
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New Beatles?
This guy claims that through an extraordinary series of events, he traveled to an alternate universe in which the Beatles never broke up and brought one of their albums back to our world. His poor grammar and spelling make his story seem suspect, but that's just what we do on the internet these days, I guess.
The music he has up there is pretty interesting. Addressing accusations that these are just remixes of the individual Beatles' post-break up careers, he says, "The only conclusion I can come up with is even though in the alternate universe The Beatles hadn't broken up, that didn't mean their future music ideas disapeared [sic]."
Seems plausible to me. Even if you're skeptical, I recommend checking it out. It's neat.
Tags: The Beatles, Many Worlds
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8-bit 'Thriller'
The video is a little shaky, but the song itself, programmed by Saitone, is just about perfect. So close your eyes and groove.
Tags: Thriller, Michael Jackson, 8-bit, Chip Tunes, Saitone
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'Womanizer' cover gets folky
I really enjoy this, both the cover, by Frenchie Slilmy, and the video — that animation is really cool.
Womanizer in LA hands
Sliimy | MySpace VideoI think the song really holds up to this treatment, as a lot of Britney covers often do. I've said it before, but Spears definitely has a fantastic team of songwriters working behind her.
Related: Here's Franz Ferdinand's "Womanizer" cover from last spring. I love the Franz, but this is kind of sloppy. You can hear what they're going for.
Tags: Sliimy, Britney Spears, Womanizer, Franz Ferdinand
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Blair's music video
Leighton Meester's single "Somebody to Love" now has a video. I've warmed up to the song some since I first heard it, and, in fact, I now think if this had come out five months ago, this could be a contender for the song of the summer. It's light and fun and mostly disposable. But mostly fun.
It's still really hard to square the image of Leighton the sexpot with prim and proper Blair of the Upper East Side, though. B would be horrified by this, I think. Which is a testament to Meester's acting, but I think it will make it hard for her to be a pop star while she's on "Gossip Girl." Our pop culture makes it hard for actors to be musicians and vice versa, and few have managed to pull that off successfully. (Once upon a time, I did a pretty extensive story on this. Of course it has been lost to the wilds of the internet.)
Tags: Leighton Meester, Somebody to Love, Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
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A very Julian Casablancas Christmas and omoti
• You can stream Casablancas' new album "Phrazes for the Young" at MySpace. Bonus, they also have his cover of SNL's "I Wish It Was Christmas Today."
• Mad Decent remixes Fools Gold with Mariah Carey.
• For Halloween, Ted Leo dressed up as Dansig, and played a whole concert with his Misfits cover band. Pitchfork has the videos.
• NPR is streaming a new Norah Jones song, "Light as a Feather," which was co-written by Ryan Adams.
Tags: Julian Casablancas, Phrazes for the Young, I Wish it Was Christmas Today, Mad Decent, Fools Gold, Mariah Carey, Ted Leo, Danzig, The Misfits, Norah Jones, Light as a Feather, Ryan Adams, This is a weird collection of tags
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Jack White collabs with Carl Sagan?
Well, no. Not really. Carl Sagan is dead. But White's Third Man Records has just announced that it will be releasing a 7-inch single of "A Glorious Dawn," a project by The Symphony of Science, the brain child of John Boswell. His thing is remixing old clips of science heavyweights into loungey, Auto-Tuned club jams. It's really cool. You should give it a listen even if both science and lounge music turn you off; you may surprise yourself.
This is "A Glorious Dawn" (feat. Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking):
And this is "We Are All Connected" (feat. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye):
Coincidentally, I'm currently working on a book which incorporates alien life forms, and this one answered a lot of questions for me.
Tags: Jack White, Carl Sagan, Third Man Records, A Glorious Dawn, The Symphony of Science, John Boswell, Stephen Hawking, We Are All Connected, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, NaNoWriMo
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Beck and omoti
• Above is "Heaven Can Wait," a track from the forethcoming Beck/Charlotte Gainsbourg collab.
• PItchfork has gathered a few videos of Vampire Weekend performing new songs. The sound quality is variable and mostly bad, but it sounds like if you liked their first album, you'll like their second.
• Antlers has done a Daytrotter session.
Tags: Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Heaven Can Wait, Vampire Weekend, Antlers, Daytrotter
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Blondie@Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 29, 2009
Miss thing has still got it going on (although maybe it was the lighting, but I think she might be a brunette these days. (ETA: Further research reveals it was a costume!(ETA: Maybe? I'm so confused))). For the opening of the Brooklyn Museum's "Who Shot Rock & Roll?" she played to a packed house in the museum's beautiful Beaux-Arts Court. The sound was slightly fuzzy, but Blondie herself was fabulous.
The audience, which included a lot of children, was totally into it, and there was some real-live dancing in Brooklyn (and, no, it wasn't just the kids). She opened with "Call Me," and played hit after hit. During "Rapture," my favorite, she let her guitarist take an extended bluesy solo before she came back for a second rap verse, which she spit totally new school.
Just before the end, she played a cover of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," which, pretty much only if you're Blondie is it cool to cover MJ at this date. Then she wrapped it up with "One Way or Another." It felt like a short set (it was about 40 minutes of rocking and rapping), but it was jam-packed with awesome.
Tags: Blondie, Rapture, Who Shot Rock and Roll?, Call Me, Michael Jackson, Don't Stop Til You Get Enough, One Way or Another
