Like many radio operations, SiriusXMU often invites visiting artists to cover another artist’s song. We’ve recently heard Slow Pulp doing Lifehouse and Vampire Weekend doing the Grateful Dead. And during their visit this week, Waxahatchee presented a version of Drive-By Truckers’ Decoration Day track “Outfit.” Tigers Blood drummer Spencer Tweedy was on hand to harmonize with Katie Crutchfield on the cover while keeping the beat, which was a nice touch. Watch footage of the performance below.
Bartees Strange is in the middle of rolling out his new album Horror, but he’s taking a break from that today to give us a great new holiday single. “Xmas” finds Strange tapping into that Mk.gee/1975 guitar sound and borrowing some melodic phrasing from Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” in service of pure, uncut seasonal melancholia. […]
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett first worked together in 1985, when they released “The People’s Limousine,” a single that was credited to the Coward Brothers, those guys’ fictional alter-egos. A year later, Burnett co-produced Costello’s recently-reissued classic King Of America. It took nearly 40 years, but Costello and Burnett have now made a full […]
The Olympia, Washington musician Ben Funkhouser, better known as fish narc, is a key member of GothBoiClique, the storied emo-rap crew. He was one of the late GBC leader Lil Peep’s go-to producers, and he’s done a lot of work across genres, including collaborations with late post-punker the Soft Moon. Over the years, fish narc […]
