The internets are filling up with stories, photos, and videos of good times from last weekend’s The Office Convention. Furthering my envy of all those who made it to Scranton to revel in Dunder-Mifflin goodness is this video clip of The Scrantones (the guys behind the series’ theme song) and warehouse foreman Darryl Philbin covering Radiohead’s “Creep”. Hopefully it won’t be long before Scrantonicity Scrantonicity II takes on an Arcade Fire cover…
VIDEO:
As if you need another reason to get Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” stuck in your head today, Yahoo! Music has ranked the Top 25 Spookiest Videos. Not included on the list is Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody (Backstreets Back),” which is very disturbing in its own special way…
Sufjan Stevens dropped by WNYC’s “Spinning On Air” to discuss all things The BQE, his new orchestral work about the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Fortunately for those of us unable to check out his sold-out BQE performances starting tomorrow, Soof premiered Parts 3 & 6 of his instrumental composition live in the studio. Head over to WNYC to hear Soof’s visit in its entirety and check out the songs/video of The BQE below.
MP3s:
Sufjan Stevens - “The BQE [Part 3]“
Sufjan Stevens - “The BQE [Part 6]“
VIDEO:
They’re too late to qualify for Vanity Fair’s list of the 50 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time, but there are two really interesting soundtracks dropping this week that help to fill out the somewhat anemic batch of releases. Check out the new releases that are on Hypeful’s radar below:
Control [Soundtrack]
MP3: Joy Division - “Dead Souls”
Ian Ball - Who Goes There
MP3s:
Ian Ball - “Elephant Pharmacy”
Ian Ball - “I Knew You Were Trouble”
I’m Not There [Soundtrack]
STREAM: Full CD
MP3: Sufjan Stevens - “Ring Them Bells”
Nicole Atkins - Neptune City
MP3: Nicole Atkins - “Party’s Over”
STREAM: Full CD
Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
MP3: Sally Shapiro - “He Keeps Me Alive”
The folks at Daytrotter got Andrew Bird to record a 5-song session for them. Included in the set are 2 previously unreleased songs - “A Breaks B” & “The Giant of Illinois”. Head over to Daytrotter to snag the session.
