Today's Swell Tune: Someday

Artist: Float Fall

From: Leuven, Belgium

Sound: Like the XX were inspired by Bruce Springsteen; dream pop

Website: here

Social: facebook, twitter, soundcloud, YouTube

Monday Morning Cover: VCR

The Antlers

The Original

The xx

Boss Stuff on the Interwebs: Wednesday Links 16/02/11

• Weezer just covered the State Farm jingle. I don't think this is to sell out, so much as it is to rile up a bunch of nervous hipsters and watch them unravel. Like a sweater. (See what I did there?) (Stereogum)

• The Brit Awards  happened again: Rihanna beat Robyn, Tinie Tempah beat The Xx, and Justin Bieber beat The National. Also Take That apparently hasn't yet been struck down by sweet justice.  Are you sure you even want to look? (Spinner) 

• The Grammys managed to be a little hipper. A little. Summary at Play On Daily.

• Growing up, while my friends all cooed over Courtney Love, I thought Melissa Auf der Maur was the coolest chick alive. Guess which one of us is still right? Bearly Rambling validates me after a decade and a half.

• PJ Harvey streamed an entire concert live, and you can watch it in its entirety at Their Bated Breath.

• Two very romantic phrases for this Valentines week: "I Remember" and "The Morning After Pills". Yeasayer's new video for the former can be found at the latter.

• As if the French needed help being moody, Sonic Youth is writing and recording the (francophone) soundtrack for a new French film. Both the songs and the movie trailer are thumbs up. See and hear at Sonic Masala.

Saturday Night Remix: Rolling in the Deep

Adele, Rolling in the Deep 

into:

Rolling in the Deep, Jamie xx remix

Monday Morning Cover: Crystalised

Gorillaz

Crystalised (Gorillaz Cover) by MrShuffleupagus

The Original:

The xx

The xx - Crystalised (Original Mix) by TheSaharaTent.com

Boss Stuff on the Interwebs: Wednesday Links 24/11/10

Yep--I'm going to make this joke every Wednesday.

Link day again, the time for you boys and girls to give these fine websites hits for doing all the work I'm not willing to do for you. Just like when our moms would pass out drunk and we'd have to go to the neighbour's house for dinner. But with less emotional scarring. Or more, depending on how much you hate clicking links, I guess.

This Wednesday:

• CaVa Cool and i(heart)music both weigh in on the hottest Canadian bands of 2010, only 10 years after people stopped using the word "hot". Good lists though.

• Spinner has a list of "15 Films defined by Songs of a Single Artist". Movie-geek meets music-geek is a nifty combination.

• Do you like Animal Collective? Do you like Bon Iver? Do you like Deerhunter?  I don't get it but congratulations, you're in luck. You might like The Mighty Lord Huron (With thanks to Obscure Sound)

• The new Lykke Li video gets the thumbs down from Modern Mystery Blog. The reason? Apparently not enough T&A.

• Yours Truly offers up the haunting Appropriate Stranger by Pina Chulada. It's beautiful: ethereal and sweet, but still mature-sounding. And bloody hard to turn off.

• Daytrotter aptly compares Alejandro Escovedo with a Texan Hold Steady. And uses the phrase "sad sacks and hoodrats". Double win.

• Gorillaz cover The xx on BBC's Live Lounge. All you Anglophiles just got hard-ons. (Head over to Stereogum) 

Song of the Day: The Xx's Infinity (Flufftronix Dubstep Remix)

Ever have those dreams where you're talking to your best friend who for some reason looks nothing like your best friend, but you just know he is, despite the fact that he is older/fatter/part kangaroo/has pineapples for hands? And since dreams can be that way, you begrudgingly accept him even though something just isn't right. And now it's just you and old pineapple hands against the world...
 
You know the dreams. And you always wake feeling a little unsettled. That rattle is the same feeling remixes give me. It's a song you know...but it's not really. You can hum along...but you can't really. And I don't think it's crazy to not appreciate when something I love is dismembered with parts scattered all over. Bit sick if you like it, really.

Of course there are exceptions to everything, and here's an exception to my no-remix rule: this flufftronix remix of Infinity.

If the original is a song to have sex by, this is a song to have angry sex by.  

Yes.

 

And here's the original, just for the sake of comparison, and because it brings the search engine hits.