Archive for April, 2007

Redoing the Beatles

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Redoing the Beatles:

Sgt. Pepper’s 2.0 . fourty years later, BBC 2 is preparing a recording session (with the original recording instrumentation and Geoff Emerick) to be aired on 2 June. Oasis, The Killers, Razorlight, James Morrison, The Fratellis, Travis and the Kaiser Chiefs are the artists currently announced.
Not the first time someone covers the Beatles (there’s even a mashup, previously covered on Mefi).

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(Via MetaFilter.)

For Sale: Joy Division Sneakers

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

No shit.

New M.I.A. track

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

New M.I.A. track:

“Here’s a new Timbaland track, ‘Come Around,’ with mellow vocals by M.I.A. (via BuzzSugar). Listen:

(edited out because it fucked up my site, click the “New M.I.A. track” link above to listen)

The track samples a recent Bollywood megahit, but shifts it off beat.

Related post: Idiocy funds terrorism (updated)

(Via Ultrabrown.)

Does Timbaland know that East Indian Indians don’t have teepees, that the American Indian Lakota do? The answer: nope.