The Archie Bronson Outfit : Derdang Derdang

The David Bryne warbling vocal sound has got to stop, doesn't it? Yes! No! Maybe? I mean, how many bands can keep doing this sound and be considered original? London trio, Archie Bronson Outfit pulls a whole lot of it's sound from the 80s sounds of Talking Heads and Depeche Mode and maybe the early 90s sounds of Matthew Sweet and crosses it with blues rock rifts and repetitious drum beats and ends up feeling a little bit like a down-on-their luck Modest Mouse crossed with The Rapture. How's that? More than any of that nonsense, if you like any of those bands, you'll probably like these guys.

Their 2006 album is entitled Derdang Derdang and is out on Domino Records. Dead Funny is a stomping rollick that gives that Float On/Girlfriend feel. They were down at SXSW this year too, but I missed them unfortch. Anyone catch it? Archie Bronson Outfit's MySpace.

There is a Four Tet remix of the song available on the cd single as well.

Archie Bronson Outfit - Dead Funny
Archie Bronson Outfit - Cuckoo

Rhino Reissues:

There have been some hella sweet Rhino reissues lately that I've been reminiscing on. The Pogues' Rum Sodomy & The Lash and The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me are two I've been listening to. Also, The Best Of Little Feat and Up From the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction

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Friday Links

Hey, remember yesterday when I was all excited about M. Ward? I still am and you can find a couple of the songs M. Ward performed on KCRW over at The Smudge Of Ashen Fluff. Nice work brutha! EDIT: Ah, oneupsmanship! Ryan has them all.

LHB points us to the full flac version

Music Slut has some new Killers and Beck. I Rock, I Roll has some new Killers as well.

Britt Daniel of Spoon dropped by AOL's The Interface this week.

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Cover song fans, I'm hoping you already know about Copy,Right?, but if not, it's your almost daily dose of cover goodness.

Frank speaks on the new R.E.M. compilation. I'll be watching the DVD this weekend, but I let an MOKB buddy borrow the cds. Gimme those back sucka!

WOXY.com will be back on-the-air very soon and apparently better than ever. Personally, I can't wait to see and hear it!

Happy Girl-on-Girl Friday at Cooter Punch. Seriously, as a man, this might be the greatest continuing post in the known universe.

LimeWire is suing the RIAA.

Halloween is fast approaching. Gerard, you might want to check this out. Comic book geeks (don't worry I am one too) might want to check this out.

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TVOTR on KCRW 092206

TV On The Radio dropped by KCRW last week to promote the new album, Return To Cookie Mountain. Ya'll know we here at MOKB are fans, so this was a treat to the ears.

TV On The Radio - Blues From Down Here (Live on KCRW)
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me (Live on KCRW)
TV On The Radio - Hours (Live on KCRW)
TV On The Radio - Province (Live on KCRW)
TV On The Radio - Wash The Day (Live on KCRW)

In The Blogs:

My blog mistress, Ms. Heather, dropped some serious goodness on us all yesterday with an out-of-print, unavailable in the U.S. M. Ward EP. Kiddos, seriously, M. Ward's latest Post-War is outstanding and you must check it out as well. Make sure you go get that EP first and give her the big love!

Oh yeah, speaking of...he was also on KCRW yesterday. Anyone got a line on those mp3s? I want 'em!

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Tunes, News and Notes...

It's been a wacky couple of days and I'm a little emotionally spent from being deemed the negative center of the blogosphere. Thanks to those that have stuck with MOKB. I really appreciate it. I don't have much planned for today, so I'll just point you to some of the tunes I've been into today and some of the goodness I've found around the web. My team and I built a new website for my corporate gig and it went live today, so I've been pretty much tied to that all day. Things went relatively smoothly though, so I'm pretty stoked.

On Constant Rotation: Here are a few tracks that I've been listening to a lot lately. I didn't want to write on Jedi Mind Tricks because they are advertising on the site, but their 5th and newest album, Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell is really good, so I'm sort of breaking that rule.

More Swede greatness with Suburban Kids With Biblical Names and their latest album #3. This album, like their last, is a must buy.

Locksley's album Don't Make Me Wait came out way back in January, but I'm just now giving it a spin. It's a lot of fun, and I'm questioning how I've now gone 10 months without this fun?!

Jedi Mind Tricks - Put Em In The Grave
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Trumpets & Violins (CD Bonus Track)
Locksley - Don't Make Me Wait

New Magic Numbers: at Here Comes The Flood and A Plague Of Angels. I love this band. They might have been the best live show I saw all this year. If you get a chance, you must see this band live.

New Voxtrot brought to you by Gorilla Vs. Bear.

Voxtrot - Trouble

Lollapalooza live show MP3s are now available at iTunes. Full sets by many of the artists will be sold through www.livelollapalooza.com starting October 19.

Local Shows: Scourge Of The Sea (see below) will be swinging back through tomorrow night for another show at The Irving Theater OR

Come out for this month's Musical Family Tree showcase Friday night at Locals Only. The show starts at 9 and you can see the following bands:

The Saturday Nights (from Chicago) 1:30
MOKB endorsed : Bon Savants (from Boston) 12:30
Lunar Event (Indianapolis) 11:30
Little Boots & Drusilla (Indianapolis) 10:30
Sam Vicari (Crown Point, Indy) 9:30

Zune Price and Release Date: Just a follow up...

Microsoft's 30GB Zune will retail for $249.99 and will hit stores on November 14, 2006. It will come preloaded with tracks from CSS, Band Of Horses, Bitter:Sweet, Darkel, Every Move A Picture, Small Sins, The Adored, The Rakes and The Thermals. It will have music videos from many of the artists above as well as Coldcut, Chad VanGaalen, Fruit Bats, Hot Chip, Serena Maneesh and regretably 30 Seconds To Mars.

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The Scourge Of The Sea : Live at 91.7 WEEM

91.7 WEEM is a great local high school indie rock station just outside of Indianapolis in Pendleton. Indianapolis radio is terrible beyond comparision and WEEM breathes the life of indie rock goodness to at least the northside of Indianapolis on a clear day. 96th Street and up basically...which is actually Fishers and Carmel, as you locals know.

Anyhooo, The Scourge Of The Sea recently played a show at The Irving Theater, but dropped by WEEM first to play a couple live tunes for the kids.

Unbeknownst to me, because I'm really trying to stop reading promo emails, The Scourge is from Lexington, Kentucky! Robby Cosenza is actually also in MOKB beloved band The Apparitions. TSOTS also came around during Midwest Music Summit, but I've missed them both times and am kinda kicking myself. My guess is that Matty has written about them already, but I'm too lazy to check. Scourge Of The Sea's MySpace.

The Scourge Of The Sea - Waterwings (LIVE on 91.7 WEEM-FM)
The Scourge Of The Sea - My Sweet One (LIVE on 91.7 WEEM-FM)

Studio Versions:

The Scourge Of The Sea - Waterwings (highly rec'd!)
The Scourge Of The Sea - Out Of The Trash
The Scourge Of The Sea - Smitten Kitten

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Peter Bjorn & John : Writer's Block

Well, moving on somewhat ironically I guess. Time to give more love to the Swedes, hopefully they still love me as much as I love them. I've been listening to Peter Bjorn & John's album Writer's Block since I got my grubby paws on it this past weekend. I had been listening to their blog hit Young Folks pretty much everyday since Matt Skatterbrain first brought it to everyone's attention back in June. Since that time also, the song has apparently been in heavy rotation on MTV. I don't watch MTV, so I don't know. The good news continues, Peter Morén, Bjorn Yttling and John Eriksson's new(ish) album is every bit as good as that first taste I was given back in June. It's not what I expected though. I had very high expectations, to say the least, after Young Folks made such a lasting impression. On past efforts, Peter normally handled the vocals, but the three piece shares the vocal duties throughout this one, so it gives a very mixed bag feel to the album. They also shared the songwriting duties on this one, but it remains pretty much great shoegazey pop throughout. Young Folks may be the only song that makes a lasting impression on the blogosphere from this album, but I happen to think these two, while different, are equally as enjoyable.

"It's groovy and melancholy at the same time," explains Yttling, the band's keyboard and bass player. - quote from The Guardian

The album (or at least the song Chills) is also a tribute to the band The Chills. "First we took a beat from an old Dionne Warwick tune," Yttling says, "then we made this Pink Frost [the Chills' most loved song] chorus thing. It's like a homage to them." Peter Bjorn & John' MySpace.

Peter Bjorn & John - Object of My Affection
Peter Bjorn & John - Up Against The Wall

Older Works:

Peter Bjorn & John - Far Away, By My Side

Peter Bjorn & John's video for Young Folks previously on MOKB.

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MOKB Covers Project Redux : Creep

Creep is widely considered the song that launched Radiohead into the world music spotlight. It was their first single from their 1993 album Pablo Honey. When it was first given limited release in September 1992, Radio 1 found it too depressing, and so after being aired only twice, it was taken off the station's playlist.

In late March 1993 they flew to Israel for their first taste of fame following its success there as a result of heavy airplay on Galei Tzahal, and late in May they flew to the USA as a San Francisco radio station had picked it up, and little by little "Creep permeated the nation's airwaves. It did not become a in the UK until September of that year almost a year after it's official release.

Thom Yorke explains the song saying that he wrote it while studying at Exeter University. It tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman he is attracted to, by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to pull it off. Although he usually referred to the drunken student in the third person, with no little contempt, sometimes outright denying it was him, he sometimes admitted it was.

EDIT: Before idolator has a conniption - Info Source : Wiki.

After my meeting with Dean Idolator, it appears I am facing expulsion from Blog U. I've lost my scholarship for sure and am likely to end up down the street at the local Junior Blog college. I apologize to all parties involved for the heinous plagerization of Wikipedia on my Term Blog Post Paper. I hope to not end up in a van down by the river, but it looks like that and a one-way ticket to hell. Jeebus, forgive me. It was not my intention to pull the wool over your eyes and appear to be an expert on Creep. I most certainly am not.

It looks like maybe the pot is calling the kettle black here though, as it seems idolator might be biting on someone's stizz themselves. It seems Gigi, the new tabloid of the blogs, beat them to this "story" hours ago. Maybe they're BFF though and one in the same.

EDIT: Fluxblog is mad at me too or just piling on with his buddies over at idolator. What can I say? I didn't cite. Not really purposefully, I pull info from Wiki all the time on covers posts...it hasn't been a secret really. I'm not a journalist, never have taken a journalism class. I can take my lumps like a man. I'll apologize sincerely, but making this into a "story" really is funny.



EDIT: I should note that I can't verify the validity of some of the artists associated with these tracks. There are obviously a lot of misnamed files in this one, judging by the comments), and any help straightening it all out is not only appreciated but also encouraged. Thanks is advance.

Radiohead - Creep
Radiohead - Creep (Acoustic)


Muse - Creep (it has been contested that this is simply Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood)
Pearl Jam - Creep (Taken down at artist's request - Sorry, I didn't know. This was sent to me, and I thought it was a live deal)
U2 - Creep (Live) - (This one is iffy)
Damian Rice - Creep
Richard Cheese - Creep
Taking Back Sunday - Creep
Scarling - Creep
Lukas Rossi - Creep
Magni - Creep
Marty Casey - Creep
(Impersonator) Bob Dylan (parody) - Creep
The Pretenders - Creep (Live)
Middlebury Dissipated Eight - Creep (a cappella)
Brandi Carlile - Creep
Jon Brion - Creep (Tom Waits jokingly impersonated)

Apparently: There are versions of this song by these four artists, but these all seem to be the same or incorrectly named. Any help sorting it out, or getting the correct versions is appreciated...

Jeff Buckley - Creep
The Cure - Creep
Tears For Fears - Creep

Cake - Creep (?)

Related, yet unrelated:

The Afghan Whigs - Creep (TLC Cover)

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MOKB Covers Project Redux : Yesterday

This one has been requested numerous times and I could never find all the versions of this song that are out there, but here's a first pass on it. I'll build the list like the rest if you wanna send your's in. The song really has no personal connection for me, but seeing as how this is the "MOKB Covers Project" it would be remiss to not include the most widely covered song in the history of music. I'll let Wiki give you the history of it though...



Yesterday is a pop song originally recorded by The Beatles for their album Help! (1965). According to the Guinness Book of Records, Yesterday has the most cover versions of any song ever written, while BMI asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone. The song remains popular today with more than 3000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Some sources still assert that White Christmas by Bing Crosby has more cover versions.

Yesterday takes the form of an acoustic ballad about a lost loved one. It was the first official recording by The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band, although the background accompaniment of a string quartet was added a few days later during the editing stage. The final recording, which out of the band's members featured only Paul McCartney, differed so greatly from other works by The Beatles that the other three members of the band vetoed the song's release as a single in the United Kingdom. Although written solely by McCartney, the song was credited to both himself and John Lennon as "Lennon/McCartney", as were all Beatles songs written by either of the pair. - Wikipedia : Yesterday

The Beatles - Yesterday
John Lennon - Yesterday (Acoustic)
Paul McCartney - Yesterday (.mpeg video)

Boyz II Men - Yesterday
Zizi Possi - Yesterday
EnVogue - Yesterday
Bob Dylan - Yesterday
Ray Charles - Yesterday
Frank Sinatra - Yesterday
Donnie Hathaway - Yesterday
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) - Yesterday
Kenny G - Yesterday
Aled Jones - Yesterday
James Taylor - Yesterday (Live)
Jose Feliciano - Yesterday
King's Singers - Yesterday
John Bayless - Yesterday
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Canadian Brass - Yesterday

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My Brightest Diamond Covers Prince's "When Doves Cry"

The MOKB Covers Project Redux continues today with a live performance cover. Here's a live video I shot at Luna Music Midtown here in Indianapolis today. My Brightest Diamond and Sufjan Stevens are in town today for a show at the Murat. I'll be checking it out. I know I clown on Sufjan sometimes and I'm still not really into him, but this in-store performance today by Shara Worden(aka M.B.D.) got me a whole lot more excited about this show tonight. She covered Nina Simone's Feeling Good right before she covered Prince. It was amazing, but I couldn't get the camera back out in time. Shara's voice is incredible. I mean, even in a record store with nonideal acoustics, it shined like her namesake. It was as good or better than any vocalist I've seen live. My Brightest Diamond's MySpace. Anyway, I've uploaded this one to YouTube for ya to enjoy...



My Brightest Diamond - Something Of An End
Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter

If you can't see this, trying clicking here.

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MOKB Covers Project Redux : Dark End Of The Street

Written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn and originally sung by James Carr in 1966. Carr, born in Mississippi, recorded in Memphis for the Goldwax Label and is widely considered one of the best soul singers of his era, alongside Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin. He discovered music through the sound of gospel, listening to artists such as Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers. Along with Dark End Of The Street, Carr is best known for his other hit A Man Needs A Woman.

Carr battled drugs and alcohol, as well as stints with manic depression and was hospitalized in a mental health facility. This was sadly evident during a tour of Japan in the 1970s when he froze in front of an audience following an overdose of antidepressants and had to cancel the remainder of the tour. He had almost disappeared entirely, but started performing again on rare occasions in the early 1990s, often working with Tyrone Davis or Otis Clay. Carr had suffered from lung cancer for many years, and died at the age of 58 on January 7, 2001.

I know Eels, Linda Ronstadt, Ry Cooder, Gregg Allman, Don Dixon, Eva Cassidy and Elvis Costello have also covered this classic tune. If you have these or any other version and could send them in, I'll get them up for everyone to enjoy.

James Carr - Dark End Of The Street

My Morning Jacket - Dark End Of The Street
Frank Black - Dark End Of The Street
Percy Sledge - Dark End Of The Street
The Afghan Whigs - Dark End Of The Street
Aretha Franklin - Dark End Of The Street
Diamanda Galas & John Paul Jones - Dark End Of The Street
Richard & Linda Thompson - Dark End Of The Street
The Commitments - Dark End Of The Street
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Dark End Of The Street
The Moving Hearts - Dark End Of The Street
J. Blackfoot - Dark End Of The Street
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham - Dark End Of The Street
Charlie Wood - Dark End Of The Street
James Thunderbird Davis - Dark End Of The Street
Lee Hazelwood & Ann Margaret - Dark End Of The Street
Terry Evans - Dark End Of The Street
The New Standards - Dark End Of The Street
Rico Bell - Dark End Of The Street
Prince Buster - Dark End Of The Street
Billy Brag - Dark End Of The Street (Live)
Linda Ronstadt - Dark End Of The Street
Dolly Parton ft. Porter Wagoner - Dark End Of The Street
Eva Cassidy - Dark End Of The Street
Dorthy Moore - Dark End Of The Street
Elvis Costello - Dark End Of The Street

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MOKB Covers Project Redux : Wonderwall

Manchester, England band Oasis have made headlines for years by making solid, tradional guitar-driven Brit rock/pop. They might be second only to the Beatles in terms of British band popularity. They hit worldwide stardom in the early 1990s with their album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, but their arrogance and infamous behavior on and off stage kept them in the news in the U.S. far longer and more often, it seemed, than their music after this album. The album spawned two hit singles in Wonderwall, and Don't Look Back in Anger which reached number 2 and 1 respectively. Wonderwall was brought back to mainstream fame most recently by Ryan Adams and was featured on the hit FOX show The O.C.

As mentioned, Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are famous for their very public warring and catty behaivor towards one another and others. Subsequently, the band has undergone several lineup changes since its inception, and the the brothers are the only original members of the very first Oasis lineup.

Oasis' second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? was the second-fastest selling album of all-time in the UK at the time of it's release and has sold over 19 million records to date. A greatest hits album covering their entire career to date, will be released on November 20th, 2006. - some info from wiki

Oasis - Wonderwall (Studio)
Oasis - Wonderwall (Live I)
Oasis - Wonderwall (Live II)

Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Cat Power - Wonderwall
Cartel - Wonderwall
Paul Anka - Wonderwall
Guadalupe - Wonderwall
Radiohead - Wonderwall (Live)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Wonderwall
Oasis Vs. LCD Soundsystem - Tribulationswall (Aggro1 Mash Remix)
3rd Unit - Wonderwall
The Gaia Corporation - Wonderwall
Hugo Ivarsson - Wonderwall
B,G,M,W + Z - Wonderwall
Pavement - Wonderwall (Live)
The Bullocks - Wonderwall
Metallica - Wonderwall (who is this?)
Robbie Williams - Wonderwall
Jackie O - Wonderwall
Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall
Howie Day - Wonderwall
Oasis - Wonderwall (Techno Remix)
Oasis - Wonderwall (Trip-Hop Remix)
Oasis - Wonderwall (Rave Mix)
Bombayblue - Wonderwall

Big thanks to jamEs at ModSuperstar who sent me a bunch more.

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MOKB Covers Project Revisited

It's been quite a while since the MOKB Covers Project and I've had lots of people send me tracks that were missed. I don't have them all, my inbox gets filled up pretty fast, but here are a few I managed to salvage...



Susana and the Magic Orchestra - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Susana and the Magic Orchestra - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)
Die Art - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
Ali Von Monaco - 08 - Where Is My Mind (Pixies)
Bette Bright - When You Were Mine (Prince)
John Bloodworth - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Dee Adams - I'll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan)

Bonus: Weeds, as I have said, is one of my favorite shows and the covers of Malvina Reynold's Little Boxes each episode have been a real treat. I'd love to get them all if anyone has them. I'll post them if you can send me any other versions you might have.

Elvis Costello - Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds)

Death Cab For Cutie - Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds mp4) - Can anyone convert this to mp3? I'll re-up if so.

DCFC - Little Boxes (mp3)

Also: Ben Folds covers Postal Service's Such Great Heights. (via Noise For Toaster)

Ben Folds - Such Great Heights (Postal Service)

I wouldn't mind doing it again at some point in the future, so if you have any great ideas of songs to cover or great collections you'd like to share, get in touch with me via email... dodge77(at)gmail(dot)com

MOKB Cover Song Project:

Love Will Tear Us Apart
Hallelujah
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
God Only Knows
Enjoy The Silence
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Sympathy For The Devil
Blue Monday
Suspicious Minds
In The Areoplane Over The Sea
Girl From The North Country
I'll Keep It With Mine
Where Is My Mind
When You Were Mine
Mas Que Nada

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Scissors For Lefty

You know I like the dance hits, and one of the better EPs I've checked into lately is Scissors For Lefty. They're on Rough Trade and their full-length album Underhanded Romance will be out in the UK on October 2nd. These are the two singles they've released over there. They're a US band though, hailing from San Francisco, and unfortunately there are no current plans to release their music stateside. They are on tour right now though, so go check them out if you get a chance. If you like Arctic Monkeys and bands of that ilk, you'll probably really like these guys. Scissors For Lefty's MySpace.

Scissors For Lefty - Ghetto Ways
Scissors For Lefty - Mama Your Boys Will Find A Home

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