Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Annie Bethancourt : 2009-04-01, Hollywood [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dead Men Are Heavier Than Broken Hearts" [mp3] other Annie Bethancourt< posts at Largehearted Boy Arbouretum : 2009-03-03, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Ghosts of Here and There" [mp3] other Arbouretum posts at Largehearted Boy Camper Van Beethoven : 2004-02-06, Boulder [...]
Song Wooden Birds ~ " Sugar " myspace plays: 10,260 mp3 download Wooden Birds are out of Austin and they are releasing their album, Magnolia , on May 12th. "Sugar" is just a good simple acoustic song. Video Illinois ~ " Old Saloon " [...]
Interesting shows around Los Angeles this week: Monday 3/30 Emiliana Torrini @ Troubadour Elton John, Billy Joel @ Honda Center Nico Stai, The Grates, Tim James (of the Movies) @ Spaceland Wait.Think.Fast., Summer Darling, The Lassie Foundation, Kissing Cousins @ The Echo ROCKING HORSE PEOPLE, BIXBY KNOLLS, JUNIUS, ATLANTIC LINE, DJ Dia @ Silverlake Lounge The Renderers, Sleepwalkers Local, Metal Rouge, Maersk @ Echo Curio Kevin Greenspon, Boo and Boo Too, Rapid Youth, Realicide @ Pehrspace Tiny Vaudeville @ Echoplex Aushua, [...]

Let us apologize for last week's omission of 'Under Cover'. Our server wasn't feeling up to the task of working properly, so we were without Popwreckoning for about a day and a half. This is what you would have gotten last Wednesday: It was made abundantly clear that my first order of business regarding this week's 'Under Cover' was to blatantly state that this edition is not at all, in the least, the work of the fabulous Mona Sheikh . She's got the week off from her wonderful feature and so I, EIC Jessica [...]
Lots of the time, when I'm looking for a song or examples of a band's catalog, I turn to the archive . It's a fount of great stuff, and these are the best covers of the lot for this year. And by "best," I mean most interesting. And by "the lot" I mean the ones I was able to find. And this post is so big, I've busted it across more than one post... A is for A Little Less Conversation-Ha Ha The Moose (Elvis Presley). Check these guys out. HHTM [...]

This is the conclusion of a two-part tribute to my favorite three pop chix. But the first post seems to have disappeared. Extremely odd. So here's the whole thing, with a zip file. I had written a whole tribute to the three artists, explaining how Madonna is like the Father, Britney is the Son, and Cyndi is the Holy Ghost--the least popular, but the most talented. Anyway, I'm pissed off. So I hope you like it. I had to reconstruct letters A through K from memory, and there's more in [...]

When you think of a great female pop singer--I mean, like the best ever--who do you think of? Xtina? Pat Benetar? Diana Ross? Janet Jackson? Fergie? Surely, all of them are candidates based on record sales and pop relevance. But I have to admit who my three go-tos are. First, Madonna. If there is a queen of pop, it has to be her. Age hasn't slowed her down either: She's lasted through three decades now, and still manages to garner attention and controversy, even when she's this side of [...]

This is the rare example of a post written because I found a picture. I recently, on my old site, published a festival of "Toxic" covers , accompanied by some wild Britbrit pix. Then I found this picture. So, here we go again. More Britney tunes. 'Cause she's the greatest songwriter of our generation, and folks would rather cover her than Bob Dylan. 1. Lucky-Blink 182 2. Hit Me [...]