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Of course it doesn’t come close to the original, but Parkay Quarts offer up a decent take on “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”.
Just a friendly reminder that your Monday could be much worse, as you’re most likely not currently incarcerated or the target of an assassination attempt.
Remember yesterday when I mentioned my utter lack of recognition for the impending cold and snow? Here’s another reason to pretend winter is just a bad dream. Off of the brand new Michael LP by Les Sins (who you may know better as Chaz Bundick, who also releases music under his Toro Y Moi alter-ego), out now on Carpark.
Springtime Carnivore’s (nee Greta Morgan) new self titled album has been getting a lot of play in my car the past few days, as I continue to try pretending that eternal summer is a real thing. “Sun Went Black” is a good example of why: Brill Building pop jams with just a tinge of folk and spaghetti western mixed in.
It’s the weekend and I’m ready to get weird. And by “get weird”, I mean “start posting my daily songs again”. If I was in the mood to get weird, though, this would be a good jam to do it to.
Most of Lace Curtains’ new album A Signed Piece of Paper is quirky, unassuming indie pop, but “The Fly” is a whole different beast. Something about the guitar tone reminds me of Women, if they sanded down some of their sharper edges and made an art pop album instead of jagged post punk. Yes, I realize that description only makes sense in my own head. “Shakes his little feet and rubs his little hands. Slips you a CD of his nu-metal band” is a frontrunner for lyric of the year.
The best song on the best album by Ryan Adams gets the Superchunk treatment, and the results are unsurprisingly great. Shame I can’t play it on the show. Off of the While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records comp, out November 18th.
Well here’s a nice surprise. The Velvet Underground are reissuing their S/T debut, and including a 1969 live performance from San Francisco’s The Matrix club. And while the performance has been floating around for years, the recording has been super cleaned up. This is one of the best sounding live VU sets I’ve ever heard.
The new Grouper album is a serious AOTY contender.