Covers: Secret Colours (Beatles), Sick Sad World (Weezer), New Speedway (Manfred Mann/Dylan), Golden Bloom (Wussy), The Chemistry Set (The Rolling Stones), First Base (Devo)

(Not actually at pp's place)

Do you like covers? Yeh, so do we, especially on what's being called the coldest day of the year, at least in these parts. Course, it's still a fairly new one. Which reminds us: Happy NY.

Free download here.

Free download here.

Around the Blogosphere: Honorary Title, Rilo Kiley, Shrinking Islands, Weakerthans, Mew, Babyshambles, Ida Maria, Cure, New Order, Soup Dragons, etc.

Lots of good insinuations here, so I hope you like them, too. A happy little six-song retrofest concludes this evening's program. Most sincerely do I thank the responsible hosts and hostesses.

The Honorary Title - Untouched and Intact & Apologize & Bridge and Tunnel - A Plague of Angels
Rilo Kiley - Dreamworld - Are You Embarrassed Easily?
Shrinking Islands - Swallowed in Grace - Bag of Songs - Happy First Anniversary, BOS!
The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight - Battle of the Midwestern Housewives

Mew - Wherever (Re-recorded Version) - Dead Flowers
Babyshambles - Carry on up the Morning - Dead Flowers
Ida Maria - Oh My God - Dead Flowers
The Cure - In Between Days - Dead Flowers
New Order - Regret - Dead Flowers

The Soup Dragons - Hang Ten - Are You Scared to Get Happy?
Hüsker Dü - Could You Be the One? - Retro Music Snob
The Outfield - Your Love - Retro Music Snob
The Rolling Stones - Play with Fire - Retro Music Snob

Around the Blogosphere: Bram Tchaikovsky, Voice of the Beehive, Records, Stones, Springsteen, Hitchcock, Zevon, Tesco, Joe Christmas, et. al.

Busy, busy Mittwoch.

Bram Tchaikovsky - Girl of My Dreams - Retro Music Snob
Voice of the Beehive - I Say Nothing - Retro Music Snob
The Records - Heather and Hell - Retro Music Snob
The Rolling Stones - Before They Make Me Run - Retro Music Snob - Keef croaks nice.

Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light - Heartache with Hard Work
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - My Wife and My Dead Wife - Timedoor
Warren Zevon - Splendid Isolation - Speed of Dark - + 6 more by the late excitable boy
Tesco Chainstore Mascara - Job Is A Four Letter Word - My Little Ghost Friend

Joe Christmas - Coupleskate - Optical Atlas
The Sunshine Fix - The Sound’s Around You - Optical Atlas
Thee American Revolution - Powerhouse - Optical Atlas

Wilkinson Tri-Cycle - 9-5 ’59 - Raven Sings the Blues - Nicely delineates the psych-blues connection
The British-North American Act - Give Yourself a Ride - Raven Sings the Blues
Wooden Shjips - We Ask You to Ride - Raven Sings the Blues - due out 9/11