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One of their newer tracks! No. It was “Teenage Dirtbag.” Could you imagine though? “Here’s a cover of a new Wheatus track.” That would be bizarre.
Anyway, here’s “Teenage Dirtbag,” which Weezer covered at both the Reading and Leeds Festivals last weekend:
Catchy Brit punks Male Bonding’s video for “Weird Feelings” opens with some actual male bonding, but instead of sticking to that conceit like they did for “Year’s Not Long,” the guys duck into a drizzly, malleable fantasy world stocked with friendly stalagmites, sea anemones, and snakes. Which I guess is symbolism worth unpacking.
Previously loved Cruel Summer representative Baths, aka 21-year-old heart-heavy L.A beat conductor and bedroom vocalist Will Wiesenfeld, has made an impressively filmic and fantastical samurai’s tale video for “Lovely Bloodflow.” Verily, it is lovely, there is bloodflow, and also mystical figures flitting around a forest where souls manifest as majestic plumes of smoke, softly sylvan and properly autumnal for an overcast NYC day that’s signaling a seasonal shift in the offing. Watch the clip, grab the track below. Good prescription if you’re experiencing some pure moods, too:
Here’s the video to the title track MGMT’s Congratulations, which shows the band walking through the desert outside Las Vegas alongside a sad-eyed Duck-dog-o-saurus. Watch:
You can never have too many versions of “Heathen Child.” Right? This one was stripped and sculpted by British DJ/producer and Lone Swordsman Andrew Weatherall. (Robert Fripp becomes a ghost.) We haven’t posted the Grinderman 2 album art yet, so take a look at that while you take a listen.
“More Than A Lover” is the second single from the Coral’s fifth album Butterfly House. This black and white video eschews the psychedelic ocean-side goofiness of “1000 Years” for a more straight-faced look at the band performing beside moonlit spirit-tapping, rolled dice, and other activities you’d spot at Lily Dale.
Considering the details surrounding Interpol’s self-produced self-titled fourth album, their first since 2007’s Our Love To Admire, it’s safe to assume that in some way or another it was intended to be a return to their early form. They’ve went back to Matador. The artwork’s basic. They have no need for a fancy/eye-catching title: These are the same guys, Interpol, who popped up in NYC in 1997 with their downcast, uplifting post-punk revivalism. The thing is — even in the midst of a music industry that’s using reunions as a life support system and would want you to think otherwise — you can never go back.
Kanye West’s official “Power” remix has Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz, and takes a nice detour for the second half, when Jocelyn Brown’s “Love’s Gonna Get You” — her “I’ve got the power” line — becomes the dominant sample. Listen:
We listened to Dirty Projectors, Shins, and Passion Pit cover songs that inspired them for Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. In this edition, M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel tackle the much tackled Johnny Mercer and Rube Bloom pop standard “Fools Rush In.” Their take won’t supplant Sinatra or Ricky Nelson, but you can sign up at Levi’s for a free download of it. Or you can watch She & Him go at it here:
