What appears to be every single album track, remix, b-side, official live performance, and remix of other artists the band has ever released. Xmas morning type stuff.

How did I never know about this site before?

Bon Iver - “Mercury” [Kathleen Edwards cover] (mp3)

Stumbled across this cover while watching some videos from the Sasquatch festival in Gorge, Washington during Memorial Day weekend this summer. Bon Iver played this gorgeous cover of “Mercury” from Kathleen Edward’s 2003 debut album, Failer, which almost sounds like it could be a b-side from For Emma, Forever Ago. He dedicates it to “all the people that…well, you’ll figure it out” before launching into the song’s opening line: “Wanna go get high?”

The song opens with clanging-pie-plate percussion and a pneumatic pulse, building into a gray puree of synthesizer effects and distorted-guitar belches. But the pivotal difference between Kid A and Amnesiac becomes obvious when Yorke’s bruised-angel warble cuts in. “I’m a reasonable man,” he sings with irritated clarity. “Get off my case/Get off my case/Get off my case.” The effect is like Kid A turned inside out.

David Fricke on Radiohead’s “Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box” - I am having difficulty deciding which of Radiohead’s 2000s releases is my absolute favorite. there are days when i could make the argument for any of them, including the dark & sexy underdog, Hail to the Thief.

notthatindie:

howimetyourmothersource:

On set. Best guest star EVER! The entire cast/crew was super stoked. No one more than me:

I cannot wait for this. Srsly.

i met Tim Gunn back in 2008 and is it just me or does he look like a cardboard cutout of himself in both cases? perhaps because he was exactly like what you’d expect him to be - very friendly and warm.

Sia - “You’ve Changed”

Sia posted this new version of “You’ve Changed” on Twitter tonight (a song she provided vocals for with Lauren Flax earlier this year) which she says will appear on her new album, We Are Born, out next year. really nice to see her taking such an upbeat direction as she hinted she would in many interviews, claiming her label had pressured to pack Some People Have Real Problems (my favorite album of 2008) with mostly ballads, beautiful as they were, deeming her a “midtempo artist” after the success of “Breathe Me.” this is definitely more in line with “The Girl You Lost to Cocaine” and “Buttons” than anything else she’s done. can’t wait for this album.

Bjork - “Earth Intruders” (Xxxchange [Spank Rock] Remix)

I found Bjork’s Volta mostly forgettable, but the companion live CD/DVD/remix CD project Voltaic spawned some great new live arrangements of older songs in her catalog, as well as this remix of Volta’s lead single, “Earth Intruders” by Spank Rock, which easily trumps the original in my book.

As I mentioned last week, “Red Tide” was an absolute highlight of the show I caught at the Wilbur Theater. As Stereogum put it, “even though Middle Cyclone came out last March, she might as well prove she can sound great on every Late Night program. (And, in the process, make a case — sorry — that bad Late Night sound can’t always be blamed on the techs.)”

Colbert Destroys R.I. Governor For Denying Gay Couples Death Rights

incredible.