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Oh yeah, heres whats on it.

 Weekly Zipped: Play in Popup | Download (17)
 Up All Night - The Young Knives: Play in Popup | Download
 Revolution - Ed Harcourt: Play in Popup | Download
 Good Day - Jukebox the Ghost: Play in Popup | Download
  Like A Feather - Nikka Costa: Play in Popup | Download
 M79 - Vampire Weekend: Play in Popup | Download
 Rebel Side of Heaven - Langhorne Slim [2:33m]: Play in Popup | Download (116)

Elika is a two-bit group from Brooklyn. By two-bit, I literally mean two-bit. Two people. Seems The White Stripes have started something.

They’ve got a new album out called ‘Trying Got Us Nowhere’. It’s got 7 trancey-ass tracks, vocals that remind me strongly of Madonna, lots of keyboards and electronica-like drums. I particularly like ‘To The End’ and ‘The Whip’ on the album. While it’s not a super-duper great album, I think for a debut it’s pretty promising. Give ‘em a spin.

Elika Official Website | MySpazz | Buy Trying Got Us Nowhere

 The Whip - Elika [4:10m]: Play in Popup | Download
 To the End - Elika [4:41m]: Play in Popup | Download

Um, this song is pretty sweet.

The Young Knives | MySpazz | Buy their shit

 Up All Night - The Young Knives [2:58m]: Play in Popup | Download

They be from D.C., where my man is from. One cool point. Pretty sweet mp3. Two cool points. Oh, they’re coming to Tampa, okay, thats 3 out of 5. I’m so easy.

JUKEBOX THE GHOST TOUR DATES

6/3 – New York, NY – Blender Theater *
6/5 – Mt. Pleasant, SC – Village Tavern **
6/6 – Athens, GA – Tasty World **
6/7 – Tampa, FL – New World Brewery **
6/8 – West Palm Beach, FL – Dada **
6/9 – Orlando, FL – Backbooth **
6/10 – Melbourne, FL – Melbourne Jaycees **
6/12 – Houston, TX – Rocbar **
6/13 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk **
6/14 – Dallas, TX – House On Swiss **
6/15 – Springfield, MO – Randy Bacon Gallery (w/ SSLYBY) **
6/16 – Cape Girardeau, MO – Port Cape **
6/18 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland **
6/19 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar **
6/20 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall **
6/21 – Westport, CT – Toquet Hall Teen Center **
7/12 – State College, PA – Central PA Festival Of Arts (Allen Street Stage)

* w/ The Wombats
** w/ Via Audio

Jukebox The Ghost Official | MySpace | Buy Let Live and Let Ghosts on iTunes

 Good Day - Jukebox the Ghost: Play in Popup | Download

I was working on a project for my wonderful LtM counterpart, Jen, when I came across some really weird covers using Skreemr. Turns out nobody has a regular album version of “Mr. Crowley” on Internet, but they do have Ozzy covering “Stayin’ Alive.” Yeah, that “Stayin’ Alive.” This simply seemed strange at first, until I thought about the history of things, the Bee Gees released “Stayin’ Alive” back in ‘76 while Ozzy was still with Black Sabbath. I really don’t want to ponder the significance of this, but I hope it’s no more than, “Hey, wouldn’t it be funny to get Ozzy to sing a disco song? We could even get Frank Zappa’s kid to play guitar! It’s so wacky!” Those are my hopes.

After I found that, I had to do a little research and discovered that Dweezil and his brother Ahmet covered Britney Spears’ breakout hit “Baby, One More Time” for the film Ready to Rumble. This doesn’t strike me as nearly so odd, since it’s been done by Travis and Fountains of Wayne, but I think it serves the post well.

Still could not find the album version of “Mr. Crowley.”

 Ozzy Osbourne w/ Dweezil Zappa - Stayin' Alive [4:42m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa - Baby One More Time [4:11m]: Play in Popup | Download

Last night, in the space of maybe 30 minutes, I had four people (including a man on the radio) tell me about the new Weezer video, “Pork and Beans”.  Dave picked up his laptop & watched it, asked if I had.  Deven says he saw it on Boing Boing.  Taryn texts me and tells me it’s got the “Shoes” guy.  Then Corey O’Brien plays the song and invites us to go to YouTube right now and check out the video.  After that, I got the idea and watched it as soon as I was at a computer with speakers.  Then, this morning, my dad called to tell me there’s a new Weezer video.  And now I bring it to you, though it’s fairly obvious that I don’t have to.  I’m sure you already know.  Or know somebody who knows and is all, “OMG it’s got the Numa Numa Guys/Diet Coke & Mentos thing/that “Chocolate Rain” weirdo/K-Fed/that dreamboat Scott Shriner!”  And now you’ve heard it from your friendly neighbourhood spider-blog.

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P.S. I’m a little embarrassed at how many of these I knew.  And also how many I now know because I looked things up on Wikipedia afterwards.