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CocoRosie “God Has a Voice She Speaks Through Me”
Our favorite indie-pop duo featuring gender bending half-Cherokee sisters–one a classically trained opera singer, the other a former model–goes funky on its new digital single. The chimes, shimmering electronic textures, heavily-processed vocals–it all sounds a bit like vintage Bjork bouncing off a funhouse mirror.
Listen on MySpace: “God Has a Voice She Speaks Through Me”
Beck “Chemtrails”
Beck’s hush-hush collaboration with Danger Mouse is going to be a lot more far out than we thought based on this moody piece of Skip Spence-inspired psychedelia. Hopefully the CD will come with its own built-in laser light show.
MP3: Chemtrails
The Ting Tings “Great DJ”
You’ve seen the iTunes commercial, read the hysterical reviews and seen their pretty mugs all over the blogosphere. Now hear what all the fuss is about, as this British guitar ‘n’ drums duo “ah-ah-ahs” its way through the leadoff track from its fantastic debut album, We Started Nothing.
MP3: Great DJ
Mates of State “My Only Offer”
After a cross-country move, this husband and wife team delivers the prettiest mid-tempo piano ballad ever about placing an offer on a new house. At least, that’s what we think this song is about.
MP3: My Only Offer
Mudhoney “I’m In and Out of Grace (Live)”
From the Seattle band’s newly remastered debut EP, Superfuzz Bigmuff, this demonic wall of noise is a good reminder as to why these guys never sold as many records as Pearl Jam.
(via Sub Pop)
MINNEAPOLIS—A drummer for the 1990s rock band Babes in Toyland has been charged with a DUI.
Lori Barbero was charged after crashing her car through her garage and into her house early Monday. The 47 year-old was booked into the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center shortly before 3 a.m. and released a few hours later. According to the police, her blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent–more than twice the legal driving limit. Barbero formed Babes in Toyland along with Kat Bjelland in the late 1980s and they were known as one of the first all-female bands to come out of the early-’90s grunge movement. Barbero was famous for her primal pounding drum style and flying dreadlocks and has been a staple of the Minneapolis music scene since the 1980s, when she was a booking agent at one of the city’s first punk rock clubs, the now-defunct Duffy’s.
Barbero could not be reached for comment and it is not clear whether she sustained any injuries.