Single Minded: The B-52’s, Counting Crows, The Raconteurs and More 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. The B-52’s, “Funplex” [MySpace] Any place called Funplex is not going to be fun. They’re going to have like three gray hot dogs going around on that metal wheel, one flavor of slushee and all the bumper cars will always be “temporarily out of service.” This song’s really good, though. Counting Crows, “1492″ [MySpace] The first Counting Crows record in six years is called Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, a reference to its dual themes of staying out and staying in. Which trumps the original concept, Thursday Nights & Friday Mornings, where every song was either about watching Lost or not wanting to go to work. Panic at the Disco, “She’s a Handsome Woman” [MTV] Purists grouse, “They don’t make records like they used to,” so Panic at the Disco make a record exactly like they used to. As in, recorded at Abbey Road, loaded with acid-burn imagery and bursting with hooks and harmonies. Plants & Animals, “Bye Bye Bye” [MySpace] Canadian group picks up the pieces of the late-Sixties Panic at the Disco left over — specifically, Dylan and Young — and tricks post-collegiate webboes into thinking it’s indie rock. So, score one for Canada. The Raconteurs, “Salute Your Solution” [MySpace] In an effort to prevent leaks, the Raconteurs rushed their album to pressing three weeks after they finished recording it. It didn’t work. To prevent leaks of their next album, every song will be written by the drummer. EMC, “Leak it Out” [MySpace] A Tuesday bonus, because it’s so good: hip-hop lifers Masta Ace, Stricklin and Punchline & Wordsworth unite for an album of take-no-prisoners boom-bap. Press flaks are trying to bill this is a “supergroup,” but t
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Published: 2008-03-25
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Single Minded
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Single Minded: Shelby Lynne, Joe Jackson, Mars Volta, Vampire Weekend and Protest the Hero 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. Vampire Weekend, “Oxford Comma,” “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” [Official Site] Vampire Weekend’s songs are bright and bouyant, so it’s a shame that by the time you finish reading this everyone you know will already hate them. Joe Jackson, “King Pleasure Time” [MySpace] After five years, Joe Jackson returns with a whole new batch of songs for the Raconteurs to crib from. Shelby Lynne, “Willie and Laura Mae Jones” [Official Site] Lynne gives a once-over to the Dusty Springfield catalog but, to the incredible relief of anyone who attended college in the Nineties, spares us the song they used in Pulp Fiction. The Mars Volta, “Untitled Exclusive Track” [Official Site] Successfully solve this puzzle, and get rewarded with an exclusive Mars Volta track. We’d tell you what it sounds like, but at a certain point the reward was no longer worth the effort. That “certain point” was after, like, nine or ten seconds. Protest the Hero, “Bloodmeat” [MySpace] And speaking of prog! Canadian band imagines a side project between Rush and Skid Row. Make of that what you will. [Photo: Getty]
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Published: 2008-01-29
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Single Minded, Rock Daily
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