
We interupt this Best of 2010 countdown to say so long to the one and only Don Van Vliet, the man once known as Captain Beefheart. It's late, so I'll just post a couple of my favorites of his and my favorite remixes and wish him well in the afterworld. Captain Beefheart- Woe-is-a-me-bop (off Lick My Decals Off, Baby ) Captain Beefheart- Black Snake Moan II (off Grow Fins ) Mochipet- Captain Beefheart vs. Captain & Tennille (off Combat ) The Background Front- Clap to it [...]

What sounds better on this first day of fall in cold Olympia, Wa than to take a bath. Which is, I guess, what my nose-blowing mind thought today, since I couldn't get this Cindy Wonderful song out of my head. Best known as half of the unbeatable Scream Club , she's teamed up with just about everyone: Beth Ditto, Mirah, Michelle Tea, Shunda K, Zoe Boekbinder, Busdriver, Peaches, Team Gina, the list just goes on. And, since I don't have an mp3 of the wonderful song in this video, I'm going to include a collaboration [...]

Well here's something I wasn't expecting: Joshua James of folk group Letters has an "electro-acoustic genre-hopping" project together with Gumar of Gumar and His Magical Midi Band called The Background Front . They just made an album featuring a flurry of guest as well as music genres: there's trip hop, electronica, folk, soul, ambient... As a whole the album is a bit too scattered for my taste but it has several highlights that are worth checking out on their own. To purchase, head over here . ~ "Yr Spell" (ft. Cindy [...]