Boss Stuff on the Interwebs: Wednesday Links 3/4/13

• Thanks to Electric Comic Book and the magic of computers, you now know how The Doors' Riders on the Storm would sound if played in a major key.
  It sounds like the most unsettling children's song ever.

• Amazing tale time: Did you know that Freddie Mercury once dressed Princess Diana like a male model so he could sneak her into a gay club for a night? I'm writing this on a Coleco, that's how 80s that sentence is. The Telegraph 

• Breaking More Waves has a nine-point introduction to their "new favourite facial-haired US indie rock band" Knesset. Don't just skip to the end, because they are funny, over there.

• Wondering where all the cool indie, smooth sax pop records are? Yeah, I wasn't either, but Fense Post makes a compelling case for Renny Wilson, "the epitome of what Ron Swanson's alter-ego Duke Silver should have created."

• But if you take the other side in that contentious, age-old, sax-versus-banjo battle (brothers against brothers!) What's Protocol  presents to you the amazing Black Horse Motel.

• The CD Critic gives Machineries of Joy, British Sea Power's latest, a good review...

• ...But by God I love a bad review. More than I like a good one. And Bit Candy has a whole section just for bad reviews. My current favourite: "Darwin Deez: This Album Sounds Like His Hair." Fuck, this guy could have a blog just writing titles for bad reviews and I'd read. I'd read.

Boss Stuff on the Interwebs: Wednesday Links 02/02/11

• Uh, The White Stripes have split. Full story at Artrocker.

• We All Want Someone to Shout For has The National performing Conversation 16 on Letterman. And it's worth watching if only to hear Letterman say "acclaimed rock-and-roll band" like a great big square.

• guerolitomusic does the new James Blake video. But more importantly, he uses "bad ass" and "smurftastic" in the same post. Not to be missed, all round.

• Play On Daily sums up British Sea Power's Valhalla Dancehall as "Modern English fronted by Alejandro Escovedo." That's not at all what I expected, but  a bloody fantastic description, no?

• Am I the only person who does not like Iron and Wine's new tune Walking Far from Home? Anyone else out there? No? Okay, well Stereogum has a Premature Evaluation of Kiss Each Other Clean, if you're more excited than I am. And This Moving Picture has the exclusive look at the Tree By the River video (a better song by far.)

• And from the vault-- Electric Comic Book dusts off The Who's Quadrophenia to compare and contrast with American Graffiti And it's awesome.

Boss Stuff on the Interwebs: Wednesday Links 01/12/10

Welcome to December. I live in Moscow and it's almost 9 am soooo...yeah it should be getting dark any minute now. But here are some top-notch links to help us forget that we probably won't see daylight this month unless there's a fire:

• Over the next few weeks, Rolling Stone will have fifty artists make 10-track playlists. So far, Dave Grohl does 80's hardcore, ?uestlove goes in for Prince, Keith Richards picks roots and reggae, and Win Butler is entirely Springsteen. Wait, what?

• Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good brings your catchy tune of the day, Living is So Easy by British Sea Power. Spoiler: At the end the listener hits the replay button.

• I know you're thinking "Like I need another French surf rock band on my iPod." But guerolitomusic still has LaFemme to make room for.

• Modern Mystery Blog reviews one of my current picks, No Joy's Ghost Blonde. The grunge comeback has started in earnest, guys.

• newdust is a  sucker for electronic artists like LAKE R▲DIO sampling vintage blues like Billie Holiday. Me too.

• Obscure Sound looks at the "lo-fi phenomenon" and argues its place using Ariel Pink and Blank Realm as cases in point.

• I remember Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness seeming epic when it came out. Granted, it doesn't take a lot to impress a tween, but it seemed like a goddam musical force that year. Consequence of Sound dusts it off to see how it looks in hindsight.

• Stereogum already has its 50 most anticipated albums of 2011. There's a lot to get excited about. Except U2. They can stop any time now, thanks.