Want to know how Rivers Cuomo maintains his “just-like-Buddy-Holly” image? According to the self-esteem boosting lyrics of Weezer’s new single (”Pork & Beans”), Cuomo’s regimen of cool involves rejecting “Rogaine” and “Oakley shades.” Whatever happened to just wearing a nice sweater? Anyhoo, Weezer are now streaming “Pork & Beans” on their official website for your listening enjoyment.
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Weezer - “Pork & Beans”
If there’s one thing better than an interview with the indestructible Keith Richards, it’s a Q&A where you get to hear Keef answer questions with his own voice! Blender recently interviewed the Rolling Stones guitarist and posted the audio of him discussing the worst jail cell he’s ever been in, the proper use of a knife, what he really did with his dad’s ashes, and other topics only Keef could colorfully pontificate upon! Check it out here.
Following the release of their single “Dance With Me,” the Old 97’s have announced plans to gradually release all of the tracks from their upcoming album Blame It On Gravity until it drops on May 13th. Two new songs will be added to the band’s MySpace page every four to five days. The first two songs up for your listening pleasure are “The Fool” and “The Easy Way.”
A freshly-blonde Lily Allen has revealed two demos from her upcoming album. Hoping to give fans a peek at her new musical direction and perhaps revealing a bit of newfound blond ambition, Allen has shared the tracks “I Don’t Know” (a biting treatise against modern consumerism and the Heidi Montags of the world) and “I Could Say” (a piano break-up/kiss-off ballad). With assurances of more studio updates as she works on her new material, Allen has also promised to drop a new mixtape sometime in the near future.
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Lily Allen - “I Could Say”
Lily Allen - “I Don’t Know”
If you enjoy Danger Mouse’s production and Cee-Lo’s modern soul, but wish their already-eclectic sounds were a bit more dyslexic…swen doog s’ereht there’s good news! Gnarls Barkley is offering up their latest album, The Odd Couple, backwards as a free download. Entitled elpuoC ddO ehT, the bizarro album features reversed vocals and backwards beats all in one, free thirty-eight-minute-long track. Although elpuoC ddO ehT doesn’t seem to make any requests for the listener to commit suicide or surrender their life to Satan, further listening might cryptically reveal that “Danger Mouse is dead.”
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Gnarls Barkley - elpuoC ddO ehT