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Let Me Roll It - Fiona Apple w/ The Roots (Paul McCartney and Wings cover)

A certain kind of youthful snobbery—that I’m none too proud of nowadays—led me to steer almost entirely clear of any music Paul McCartney made post-Beatles for a long, long time. I knew a handful of songs, but that was it, and for many years I convinced myself (with little research of any kind) that John Lennon was the only Beatle who made any kind of decent music after the band’s demise.

Thankfully, George Harrison opened my eyes around 1999 or so, when I stumbled onto All Things Must Pass and quickly became obsessed with it. But I still held out this weird anti-McCartney thing that kept me from most anything Wings or solo-related. Then, only last year, that final stupid mental ice block began to melt and I’ve been pouring over his 1970s stuff and realizing that, Lennon’s dismissive comments aside, a lot of it was actually really great.

For example, this song. And Fiona, with the help of The Roots, knocked it out of the park.

(Source: youtube.com)

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New Elliott Smith Footage Surfaces Online

Earlier today, director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, etc) uploaded to YouTube a copy of the original and never-aired pilot he directed for a Jon Brion variety show type thing for VH1 back in 2000. The nearly 45 minute pilot features, among other things, several performances from Elliott Smith - including absolutely gorgeous renditions of The Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset” and John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy”. Honestly? Crying a little bit over here.

elliott smith jon brion paul thomas anderson

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Joy To You Baby - Josh Ritter

joy to the city, the heat wave and all.
to the lion of evening with the storm in its paw.
joy to the many, and joy to the few.
joy to you baby, and joy to me too.

(from his new record The Beast In Its Tracks, out March 2013! New Josh Ritter! New Josh Ritter!!)

(via sometimesagreatnotion)

josh ritter joy to you baby soooo good.

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“I’m Not Talking” - A.C. Newman

Stuck in my head for weeks now. The whole record is pretty fantastic, but this song especially.

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Making Cents (Pitchfork)

“As businesses, Pandora and Spotify are divorced from music. To me, it’s a short logical step to observe that they are doing nothing for the business of music— except undermining the simple cottage industry of pressing ideas onto vinyl, and selling them for more than they cost to manufacture. I am no Luddite— I am not smashing iPhones or sabotaging software. In fact, I subscribe to Spotify for $9.99 a month (the equivalent of 680,462 annual plays of “Tugboat”) because I love music, and the access it gives me to music of all kinds is incredible.

But I have simply stopped looking to these business models to do anything for me financially as a musician. As for sharing our music without a business model of any kind, that’s exactly how I got into this— we called it punk rock.”

- Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500)