If Neil isn’t going to put this up, I will. Â It was old news to Neil, but I haven’t seen it before, so it’s new to me. Â It’s new to the blog.
And what internet meme woud be complete without a remix. This is actually the best part:
If Neil isn’t going to put this up, I will. Â It was old news to Neil, but I haven’t seen it before, so it’s new to me. Â It’s new to the blog.
And what internet meme woud be complete without a remix. This is actually the best part:
Here is more of the little things that didn’t deserve their own post but are worth a looky loo. Most of this is from PopCandy, if you didn’t know already.
I prefer to get my news in joke form, which includes shows like Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me or the Daily Show. On this week’s episode of WWDTM, the funny story about an RNC debate (Ann Wagner not hearing the question at all and Michael Steele quoting War & Peace by saying “It was the best of times… It was the worst of times”) wasn’t worth it’s own post, but the story about how a radio show pointed out the similarities between Matterpus’ summer jam OMG by Usher and Homer Simpsons diddy about presents was worth a post. Check it out:

Despite looking like a Norwegian Gozer the Gozarian, Robyn has really grown on me. Though quite different from another favorite song from her, Konichiwa, Bitches, the song Dancing On My Own would be on a personal Top Songs Of The Year list, if I did one of those. You can watch the original video, or just see her perform it at the Nobel Peace Prize concert (cause thats real and not made up!?!): (its the second song)
I haven’t done too much digging for string bands; my previous experience with them was limited to enjoying .357 String band from knowing Kate Brice and not enjoying Yonder Mountain String Band from hearing Joan’s ipod. But after helping dj for a bunch of Irish kids who wanted to hear “Mum-feerd!” every week, I fell in love with Mumford and Sons, a folk-rock band from England who has been getting a lot or radio play recently. If you’ve only heard Little Lion Man or The Cave, definitely give the rest of the cd a listen.
Their all of sudden popularity seems to have forced stations like WXRT to start playing more folk/string bands like The Avett Brothers, another folk rock band from North Carolina who are also worth a listen. They have been around a little longer and have a deeper catalog to peruse. I had not heard of their last album, I and Love and You, until more recently despite being on many blogs’ best-of-the-year-end lists, being produced by Rick Rubin and even going #16 in the us charts.
While I might mock Joan for her love of the Yonder Mountain String band, she did introduce me to Old Crow Medicine Show, a nashville band that seem to be hugely popular (and not new at all) with some people and unknown with most others. Wagon Wheel, from 2004’s OCMS album, is an uncompleted song found in a Bob Dylan bootleg that was expanded to now be their most famous song. Probably one of my current favorite songs: