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REM, Billy Bragg Cover Suzanne Vega’s Tom’s Diner | Bingo Hand Job Shows
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This audio clip comes by way of a friend from my junior high school days in Houston – thanks Scott!
The below image is borrowed from Google Books and best sets up this track – it’s taken from a book called Reveal: the story of REM by Johnny Black.
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Thom Yorke, Flea And Unnamed Band | Harrowdown Hill | Live at The Echoplex | Los Angeles
via YouTube.
Updated: They Might Be Giants | Meet The Elements | *Not* Live on Jimmy Fallon
via YouTube.
Here’s a rather exceptional live TV performance of TMBG’s new song, Meet The Elements.
The Jimmy Fallon show video was removed from YouTube by the copyright police, so I’ve replaced that video with this live, first ever performance of Meet The Elements. These moving pictures were shot at an all ages show at the [...]
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Rodeohead | Radiohead Bluegrass Cover Medley By Hard ‘n Phirm
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This remarkable cover medley by Hard ‘n Phirm entitled Rodeohead comes by way of my FriendFeed friend, aka Dead Silence.
The medley features the sounds of banjos, violins, a Jew’s harp, a steam locomotive whistle and a CB radio exchange. Somehow, the Radiohead lyrics transform magically into the bluegrass style.
The Radiohead [...]
Miracle Legion | Mark Mulcahy | All for the Best
YouTube – Miracle Legion | All for the Best.
Here’s the original song by Mark Mulcahy and Miracle Legion which was recently covered by Thom Yorke and his brother Andy Yorke.
The cover by the Yorke brothers is part of a compilation album of songs, Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, which also features [...]
Preview Of Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album | Christmas In The Heart
via YouTube.
Dylan’s Christmas In The Heart due out on October 13 in the US.
Sweden’s First Aid Kit Debuts New Video | Hard Believer
via themusicslut.com
See First Aid Kit at their MySpace page. You’ll find info on their UK tour there, as well.
You also might enjoy their cover of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song posted here at TSM.
U2 | Stay (Faraway, So Close!) | Dublin | 1993 | Zooropa Tour
via YouTube.
Exceptionally fine audio and Bono plays some guitar to the hometown audience, too. Great performance.
Purple Apple: Are These Three 12 Year-Old Girls And Their Babysitter The Next Big Thing?