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Category: Music

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  • Eminem’s Lose Yourself as performed by movie clips

    Genius.

  • Cover roundup: Glycerine by Bush

    Glycerine is a banger from the mid 90s by Bush. Probably the most famous version is the one Gavin Rossdale performed due a rainy 1996 MTV Spring Break.

    Allison Lorenzen and Midwife add shoegazey fuzz

    Easy listening lullaby version

    Acoustic with female vocals

    Piano really changes it

    Or a string quartet

  • Cover roundup: Fields of Athenry

    Fields of Athenry, a traditional Irish folk song from 1979 by Pete St. John, serves as an unofficial national anthem for Ireland.

    Perhaps the most recognized version is by the Dublinners, sticking to the songs folk origins.

    The Drop Kick Murphys channel fury into the lyrics and guitars.

    The Ohio St. marching band gave a good rendition

    The vocal harmony of Sina Theil & Caitríona O’Sullivan brings a resonance to the lyrics.

    With the Ireland national team about to be eliminated from the 2012 Euro soccer tournament, the Irish fans began singing.

  • Cover Roundup: Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan

    One of the most infectious pop songs in recent memory, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan, is already creating a cottage industry of covers.

    Rick Astley takes an earnest and genteel approach.

    Orville Peck’s baritone brings a soothing quality.

    Of course there’s a reliable Kelly Clarkson rendition.

    What about an all women’s chorus, The Virginia Belles, hitting those harmonies?

    Medieval bardcore?

    Tinges of roots rock?

  • The Cobain 50

    When Kurt Cobain’s journals were released, they contained a list of his 50 top/favorite albums. KEXP has been doing podcast series, The Cobain 50, releasing an episode a week for each album. The series is now in the final stretch.

    Each week, The Cobain 50 podcast digs into albums from this famous list and how they may have influenced Cobain and Nirvana. While learning the individual histories of the different albums on the list, we gain new insights into artists on the fringes as well as some of the biggest groups of all time. The podcast takes us through the legacies of acts like Sonic Youth, Pixies, The Breeders, Public Enemy, PJ Harvey, Black Flag, Mazzy Star, The Shaggs, Shonen Knife, and more.

    What’s great is how the hosts tie the albums to elements in Nirvana’s history or catalog.

  • Michael Shannon and REM

    Actor Michael Shannon will tour again, performing REM songs.

    On February 14, Shannon will begin his second tour inside of a year devoted to R.E.M. It will take him to more than a dozen cities in the US. Interest in the shows has been so high, with some tickets for a stop in Athens, Georgia, on the secondary market going for north of $600, that dates have been added in England as well.

    And most of the songs they are performing come from the early years of REM’s catalog.

  • Chappel Roan takes Pink Pony Club on a ride

    From first singing, the song, Pink Pony Club in front of 50 people in 2021 and thinking it too a 150,000 person sing-along in 2024.

  • My 2024 best of list

    Originally posted to Instagram

    Now that we are in the final days of the year, here are 🎵a few of my favorite things 🎶

    (TV, movies, music are all from this year. The book list are my favorites that I read this year, but may have come out earlier)

    TV

    • Shrinking
    • Penguin
    • Arcane
    • Shogun
    • Slow Horses
    • Abbott Elementary
    • Geek Girl
    • Las Azules
    • Interior Chinatown
    • Fallout

    Books

    • Adam Higginbotham – Midnight in Chernobyl
    • Kathryn Schultz – Lost & Found
    • Scott Carson – Lost Man’s Lane
    • Matt Dinniman – Dungeon Crawler Carl series
    • Tananarive Due – The Reformatory
    • Travis Baldtree – Legends & Lattes
    • Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Time
    • Rick Remender – The Sacrificers vol 1
    • Matthew Desmond – Evicted
    • Patrick Horvath – Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

    Movies

    • Mads
    • The Last Stop in Yuma County
    • Wild Robot
    • My Old Ass
    • Caddo Lake
    • Rebel Ridge
    • Inside Out 2
    • Hundreds of Beavers
    • Late Night with the Devil
    • Self Reliance

    Music

    • Etran De L’Air – 100% Saharan Guitar
    • Haley Heynderickx – Seed of a Seed
    • Glass Animals – I Love You So F Much
    • Cassandra Jenkins, My Light, My Destroyer
    • Runnners – Starsdust
    • Rosali – Bite Down
    • Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene
    • Kelly Lee Owens – Dreamstate
    • Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Trip to the Moon
    • Dehd – Poetry
    • Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
    • Phosphorescent – ‘Revelator’
    • Itasca – Imitation of War

  • Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music

    If this isn’t infectious, I don’t know what is. Questlove drops a trailer for a documentary about 50 years of SNL musical guests.

  • Cover roundup: Dammit by Blink 182

    And it’s happened once again
    I’ll turn to a friend
    Someone that understands
    And sees through the master plan
    But everybody’s gone
    And I’ve been here for too long
    To face this on my own
    Well, I guess this is growing up
    Well, I guess this is growing up

    Sometimes a cover takes an original in a new direction or changes the weight of a song. Dammit, by Blink 182 can turn haunting or weary.

    Dead on a Sunday takes Mr. Kitty’s “After Dark” synth banger but sings “Dammit.”

    It also works with country twang, here’s Alexandra Kay.

    Serj T from System of a Down turning it into a ballad.

    Or a one man ska band, bring horns for a lively punch.

    And in 2020, an entire album of “Dammit” covers came out.