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Bryan Ferry is the ruler of a vast kingdom, and cover songs are in that domain. If I’ve ever made you a mixtape, you’ve got this one already.
Most of the cover songs I’m posting this week are the first versions of these songs that I ever heard. I think I might have heard the Dylan [...]

Next week is “all cover songs all the time” on K-VEG, but I’m kicking it off early with one of my favorites.
John Frusicante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the age of 18. They immediately became one of the hugest bands on the planet, and John freaked out and quit. By this time, [...]

HOLY CRAP, people. How did I miss this for months and months? Why didn’t you tell me?
It’s a good thing I went to the mall yesterday.
Lil Mama - Lip Gloss (itunes)

Time to shake it twice today. One that never seems to get old, and a bonus remix just because it’s so lightly touched yet it totally destroys and because I love you like that.
Mylo - Drop The Pressure from Destroy Rock & Roll (insound / amazon / itunes / emusic)

Gorillaz - [...]

If you haven’t seen the Cadbury commercial, please watch it.

I mentioned Craig Mack last week, so here he is. Great, great, great!
So great, in fact, that when Ja Rule rapped over a sample of it for Jennifer Lopez’s “Ain’t It Funny,” he copied his delivery 100%. I hope he at least took Mr. Mack to dinner. (And just like a piece of [...]

You can say that again. Every time I listen to this song nowadays, I can’t believe pop music ever sounded like this. I can believe it looked like this, though.

Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier from Kings Of The Wild Frontier (insound / amazon / itunes)

M.I.A. - Bird Flu

Today’s post was going to be something from the ridiculously bananas good M.I.A. album. There’s so much just sick, nasty stuff on there. But one of the standouts is actually an updating of a 2002 song from an Aboriginal kids’ hip-hop group. She kept the music pretty much the same, which is [...]

After a good Townes Van Zandt cry, I find it’s always helpful to pick myself up with a bouncy tune about chicken. Please go see Deke Dickerson when he comes to your town - he’s an amazing guitarist and an American treasure.
Deke Dickerson And The Ecco-Fonics - What’s That Cookin’ from Number One Hit [...]