
- The Arcade Fire's cover of "Born A Train" was featured in Part Three . Here they are again with a version of "All The Umbrellas In London" from a concert in Tokyo: The Arcade Fire - All The Umbrellas In London (Live) - A couple other live covers: Ben Gibbard - The Saddest Story Ever Told (Live) Kings of Convenience - The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side (Live) - "The Book Of Love" is nowhere [...]

Five songs as soothing as tea: The Brunettes - Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks The Sunny Street - Cyclists Secret Owl Society - If Only They Could Turn Around The Library - TomKat The Pastels / Tenniscoats - Vivid Youth Song lyrics of the week: [...]

Oh sweet merciful Christ and--oh wait, this is actually a really good compilation. Can you believe it? We couldn't at first, seeing as how covers most times make us cringe, but we've seen the light. Stephen Merritt would be so proud of all of the artists who've gone ahead and paid tribute to him in this endearing, outright astounding mixtape. Tell me you couldn't fall in love with this project and we'd call you a liar. Tracklist: 01 Monica y Carlos - [...]

Most liberal, enlightened, grown-up Americans have become that way by working hard at it. Some have to slough off the cultural impositions of conservative and religious ideologies; I'm one of those children-of-a-child-of-the-six ties who fights to rid himself of ideas like, "root chakras" and, "meaningful coincidence." But sometimes I can't prevent myself from making superstitious connections: the 001 Collective , a contemporary collective of musicians who are distributing their music for free using powerful peer-to-peer technology, were meant to cross my path. And yours too, I reckon. It happened the day after [...]
Lately I've been spending all my time at 001collective.com . The 001 is a place where independent pop, noise, folk, and electronic artists can post their music for free, torrent-based download, which is then propagated across the larger bit torrent network, allowing these artists greater distribution than they could ever hope to gain in retail music stores, even independent ones. The guy architect of all this, and the man who penned the site's eloquent Declaration of Independence , is Luke Morris, the Louisianian boy wonder behind Secret Owl Society . So far, a [...]