Just a little while after I started up the Spoon covers archive, people began sending me songs I had missed. There were the obvious ones (Yo La Tengo and Hedwig) and the live ones (Sam Cooke), but these are some that I would likely have had to do quite a bit of digging to unearth. [...]

A collection of my favorite Britt Daniel-related covers Britt Daniel has a policy, or so I read somewhere in an interview, that he only likes to cover songs written by his friends. This is apparent if you look at Spoon 's albums throughout the years. Usually hidden deep in the liner notes, you may notice that certain Spoon songs are actually not Spoon songs at all. For example, "Me and the Bean" a Spoon setlist staple is actually a John Clayton (of The Sidehacks) cover. More recently from Ga Ga [...]

Here at +sixeyes we've been doing these Sunday Mixes for a month or so, but this is the first time I want to point out one of the artists. Between the Pine is the solo work of Rhode Island's Jim Diotte. He's a little known artist who deserves to be heard by those of you seeking out good music. between the pine we all know where you are ( more mp3s ) [...]

If Britt Daniel lives in Portland, then why do I see him downtown almost as much as Leslie ? I crossed paths with the Spoon frontman once again over the weekend at the White Denim gig at Beauty Bar, though I didn't even have time to mention that the new album sounds great. When I asked him at SXSW what he thinks of Portland, he just shrugged and said "I'm usually not able to spend a good amount of time there." Maybe the whole "relocation to Oregon" thing was simply a farce to keep overzealous [...]
Spoon's Britt Daniel recorded solo under the pseudynom Drake Tungsten and he even released a couple of recordings in the mid '90s. The first was a self-released cassette of demos titled Clocking Out Is For Suckers [1994] and the other release under the Drake Tungsten name was 1996's Six Pence for the Sauces. Get your Britt Daniel fix right here and now, and hear this very early version of