There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. Video of the week, hands down, is the New Pornographers’ “Moves.” Director Tom Scharpling turns it into a trailer for a nonexistent movie about the Canadian power-pop band’s history, with a cast of top-flight comedy names, including John Hodgman, Paul Rudd, Todd Barry, Julie Klausner and Scharpling’s “The Best Show on WFMU” collaborator Jon Wurster. (“Best Show” fans should keep their eyes peeled for a couple of familiar names, too.)
2. The Dirtbombs are the finest garage-rock band in Detroit, but their repertoire on their new album Party Store isn’t what anyone would’ve expected: it’s covers of a bunch of Detroit techno classics, including Innerzone Orchestra’s “Bug in the Bassbin” and A Number of Names’ “Sharevari.” There’s also a Scion A/V Remix EP –currently available as a free download–on which current Detroit techno producers Ectomorph, Omar S and Kyle Hall remix the Dirtbombs’ versions. Neat!
3. The wickedly funny mashup masters The Evolution Control Committee have just released their first album in many years, All Rights Reserved. At their site, there’s a stream of the whole thing, and downloadable MP3s of a bunch of tracks (including “Stairway to Britney,” which convincingly hybridizes “…Baby One More Time” and a certain Zep classic). You can hear them, but you’re technically not allowed to: the album begins with a “Listener License Agreement,” which states that by listening to any of the album, you agree to not listen to any of it. Come on, you’ve clicked “agree” to worse terms-and-conditions boilerplate.
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