Single Minded: New Britney Spears, Plus Ben Lee Covers Against Me!, The Go! Team Covers Sonic Youth, The Killers Take On Joy Division, and De La Soul Meets NKOTB Britney Spears, [Untitled New Song] Britney coos, “Why did you desert me, baby boy?” while an infant’s musical mobile twinkles in the background. And you thought irony was dead. Ben Lee, “White People for Peace” [Against Me! Covers] Ben Lee covers the entire new Against Me! record, quietly, from start-to-finish. Imagine if instead he liked Rihanna? The Go! Team, “Bull in the Heather” [Sonic Youth Cover] British buzz band turn weird Sonic Youth single into weird Go! Team single. Now let’s see them take a crack at “The Diamond Sea.” The Killers, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You/Shadowplay” [Live Frankie Valli/Joy Division Cover] Brandon Flowers and Co. pull off the estimable feat of aggravating two generations at once. If only they’d worked in Fall Out Boy for the trifecta. De La Soul/New Kids on the Block, “Jenifa Taught Me/Step By Step” [Mash-up] Humbly suggests that if we’d had the Internet in the Eighties, we’d be doing the same stupid stuff we’re doing with it now.
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Published: 2007-08-25
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Single Minded
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Single Minded: Jay-Z Set to Showtunes, Janis Joplin, Live De La Soul, Peanuts Remix and a Very Reggae Christmas Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. American Gangster Opera [The Rap Up] To the delight of high school music teachers everywhere (and the collective horror of their students), someone has set Jay-Z’s latest opus to sliced-up snippets of opera and Broadway showtunes. Kids: Whatever they make you do with this, it can’t be as bad as having to research the lyrics to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Trust us. Vince Guaraldi, “Linus & Lucy” [Pocketknife Remix] Well, the youth of America have finally run out of things to remix. Upside: this is fantastic, jittery and jubilant and out-of-control. We’d like to think this comes from Linus’s “lost years,” when he bought bright sneakers and strange pants and always seemed to have a cold. Janis Joplin, “Me & Bobby McGee” [Demo] Stripped-back version of Joplin’s posthumous classic is a glorious combination of ragged singing and off-the-cuff studio banter. Legend has it that Joplin went into the studio to bang out this version and, presto, eight years later Pink was born. De La Soul, Live in France 2007 [Daily Motion] A healthy portion of a live De La show — in Montmarte, of all places. Bonus: thanks to the subtitles, you get to learn how to say “It’s not bouncing” in French. Distinctly Jamaican Reggae [Jammin Ja Sounds] Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus: unbeatable reggae blog Distinctly Jamaican Sounds gives you a holiday mixtape, and casually suggests holly might be useful for something other than just hall-decking.
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Published: 2007-12-08
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Single Minded
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