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REM, Billy Bragg Cover Suzanne Vega’s Tom’s Diner | Bingo Hand Job Shows

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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.
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Dinosaur Jr. Live In Concert Thursday On NPR

Hear Dinosaur Jr. perform selections from Farm — along with an assortment of old favorites — in a full concert, webcast live on NPR Music this Thursday, Oct. 8. The show, from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club, will begin with an opening solo set by Lou Barlow at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET. via Live Thursday: Dinosaur Jr. [...]
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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

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pavement Reunion In 2010 Is Really Happening

Every year, that Pavement reunion rumor comes around, and every year it’s a load of hooey, right? Right. Until now. Because this time it’s true. Via an exclusive Rolling Stone interview, in a late-night call from Australia, Pavement guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg confirms that the Nineties’ finest indie rockers are finally going back to [...]
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