It's been some week here at Cover Lay Down. Features on popular singer-songwriters Billy Bragg and Paul Simon brought us to the top of the charts at musicblog aggregator The Hype Machine and a linkback from New York magazine's Vulture blog. On Friday, almost 900 of you visited the site, a new record; download tracking shows that many of you came in for one song, but stuck around to try something new. Welcome, kudos, and thanks for validating our goals here at Cover Lay Down. But a slow [...]
Due to the aforementioned office-contained debate regarding the Mermaid Avenue volumes (okay, one song on the second), I've found myself relistening to the pair lately and subsequently found myself back in a Natalie Merchant groove. I've liked Merchant for a long time -- I believe I was in 5th grade when 10,000 Maniacs' MTV Unplugged was burning up popular culture and while the only song MTV and VH1 would have you believe they performed that night was a cover of Springsteen and Smith's "Because the Night," I found myself with a bit of preteen [...]
Last week, I talked about the fertile ground that tribute albums allow for artists to attempt interesting/faithful/experimen tal renditions of songs that are already known and well-loved. In most cases (before MP3 blogs like this came along to save the world), you'd have to buy the tribute album to get a hold of (probably) just the one or two tracks you were interested in hearing, as most times, the only other way the band will release the song is on a B-side of a Japanese version of a single, if that. The other equally fertile grounds for [...]
Natalie Merchant - Carnival
Professor Gunther Von Hagen creates a controversial macabre hybrid of art and anatomy, using a technique called plastination to hold organs and corpses in a life-like state. He replaces body fluids and fat with plastic, halting decomposition and preserving the subjects as they are. His Body Worlds exhibitions and public and televised autopsies have caused outcry all over the world: being labelled pornographic, immoral and borderline psychotic. Both the Catholic and Protestant churches declared that his exhibit was a breach of ethical and moral values, [...]
I was recently introduced to The Clock Work Army and Im glad I got ahold of some of their tunes. I was struck right away by how much the lead singer sounded like one of my favorite female vocalists ever Natalie Merchant, the sound is incredibly close at first listen. However as the songs wear on Emily Neveu makes them her own. Still, the short version is Natalie Merchant fronts a punk band. One of the better things to come out of San Diego since Pinback. Check them out.... Banter [...]
Kristin Diable showed up in my inbox a while ago and I got a case of the forgot to post about its. If you like female singers that can tempt and hypnotize Ms Diable could be for you. Its mostly got an Americana sound though some would call it roots music. Think Lucinda Williams and Natalie Merchant, and its hard for me not to mention a nod to Cat Power also. Yeah, its got the potential to be that good. She has been playing around New York with two of the boys (Benji [...]
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REMIX SUNDAYS- May 27th, 2012
The Flaming Lips rewrite “Race For The Prize” for Oklahoma City Thunder
