Cure Tribute LP Takes Shape

Perfect As Cats is out on 10/28.

The double disc set will include:

Xu Xu Fang "Fascination Street"
Bat For Lashes "A Forest"
Hecuba "Killing An Arab"
Astrid Quay "The Caterpillar"
Indian Jewelry "The Walk"
Rainbow Arabia "Six Different Ways"
We Are The World "Why Can't I Be You?"
Black Black "In Between Days"
Rio En Medio "Pictures Of You"
Gangi "Fire In Cairo"
Joker's Daughter "Kyoto Song"
Aquaserge "10:15 Saturday Night"
The Muslims "Grinding Halt"
Voyager One "M"
Ex Reverie "The Hanging Garden"
Caroline Weeks "The Drowning Man"
Devastations "All Cats Are Gray"
The Dandy Warhols "Primary"
Veil Veil Vanish "The Upstairs Room"
Wolkfin "Charlotte Sometimes"
Army Navy "Jumping Someone Else's Train"
Ich Bin Aiko "A Strange Day"
Lemon Sun "The Exploding Boy"
Corridor "The Kiss"
Katrine Ottosen "The Love Cats"
Silver Summit "A Night Like This"
Mariee Sioux "Love Song"
Kaki King "Close To Me"
Buddy "Sugar Girl"
Les Bicyclettes Blanches "Hot Hot Hot"
Tara Busch "Let's Go To Bed"
Jesu "The Funeral Party"
Sarabeth Tucek "Three Imaginary Boys"
Lewis & Clarke "Disintegration"

Read my review of The Cure @ MSG here.

MP3: Bat For Lashes - A Forest

Bowie Tribute LP Takes Shape

Life Beyond Mars is out on 7/8.

Track listing is as follows:

1. Au Revoir Simone “Oh! You Pretty Things”
2. Heartbreak “Loving The Alien”
3. Kelley Polar “Magic Dance”
4. Leo Minor “Ashes To Ashes”
5. Carl Craig (Zoos Of Berlin) “Looking For Water”
6. Drew Brown “Sweet Thing”
7. Matthew Dear “Sound & Vision”
8. Susumu Yokota “Golden Years”
9. The Emperor Machine "Repetition"
10. Joakim & The Disco “A New Career In Town”
11. Richard Walters & Faultline “Be My Wife”
12. The Thing “Life On Mars”

Stream tracks from the release here.

MP3: David Bowie - Life On Mars?

Ben Cho, DJ Jess & Brad Walsh Spear NYC Moz Night

Yet another celebration of his 49th birthday!

This one takes place Friday, May 23rd.

Featured guests, DJs & personalities:

DJ Jess
Alex Malfunction
Brendon James
Brad Walsh
Anna Rexia
Ben Cho
Twig The Wonderkid
Stormy Leather

There's even a Do It Like Moz competition!

For further info, head here.

MP3: The Smiths - Still Ill

The Sons & Heirs Announce Moz B-Day Celebration

The legend turns 49 later this month.

Our fave (read: only) tribute act will honor the day...

May 22nd @ Brooklyn's Union Hall
Special Guest DJ: Spencer Corbin (ex-Mox drummer)

Purchase tix here.

Visit The Sons & Heirs on MySpace.

MP3: Morrissey - Alma Matters

Joey Ramone B-Day Bash 2008 Details Revealed

May 19th @ NYC's Fillmore - Irving Plaza.

This year's roster includes:

Mary Weiss (The Shangri-La's)
Richard Lloyd (Television)
Jesse Malin
Cheetah Chrome
Walter Lure
Tish & Snooky
Jean Beauvior
Andy Shernoff
Joe McGinty
JP Thunderbolt
Al Maddy
Ivan Julian
Bobby Steele & Mickey Leigh
Charm School
Semi-Precious Weapons
The Independents
Local H
L.E.S. Stitches
Rachel Newman

For further updates, head here.

MP3: The Ramones - Merry Xmas

Elliott Smith Tribute Gig Set For May 18

Portland State University, 8pm - 11pm.

Proceeds for the event benefit the following charities:

-OUTSIDE IN
-FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN

For further info, head here.

MP3: Elliott Smith - Miss Misery

KT Tunstall Performs At Dylan Tribute

Enjoy her take on 'Simple Twist Of Fate' below. Visit KT at her official site.


MP3: KT Tunstall - Saving My Face.

Magnetic Fields Tribute LP: Release Date, Tracks, Cover Art

Here's the official rundown for 21 Love Songs:

'Yeah Oh Yeah' - Monica Y Carlos
'Busby Berkeley...' - The American Icons Of Rebellion
'Time Enough For...' - Evripidis & His Tragedies
'When The Open Road Is Closing In' - Iji
'I Think I Need A Heart' - Steinbeck
'The Desperate Things You Made Do' - Microfilm
'All My Little Words' - Abrevadero
'100,000 Fireflies' - Secret Owl Society
'I Don't Believe You' - Tinyfolk
'Living In An Abandoned...' - Manipulator Alligator
'Why I Cry' - Fairmount Fair
'Crazy For You But (Not That Crazy)' - James Eric
'Born On A Train' - The Brooke
'I Don't Want To Get Over You' - Redbear
'Reno Dakota' - Porches
'You & Me & The Moon' - A Lime Tree
'Plant White Roses' - Existential Hero
'I Don't Believe You' - Fire Island AK
'Josephine' - Spare Machine
'Come Back From San Francisco' - S. Joe Hazelwood
'Absolutely Cuckoo' - Your Yellow Dress

Download the entire collection on 3/4 at CLLCT.

Artwork by The Brooke at SNT.

MP3: TMF - You & Me & The Moon [alt link]

Microfilm Releases Magnetic Fields Cover

Last month we alerted you to an MF tribute record. Well, the LP is nearly complete!

21 Love Songs will be out in early March.

Chicago's finest dance act, Microfilm, contributes a thrilling cover from Get Lost to the compilation (download at bottom).

Here's the track listing, thus far:

Abrevadero - All My Little Words
Charlie Sullivan - All My Little Words
Brooke - Born On A Train
S Joe Hazelwood - Come Back...
Fire Island AK - I Don't Believe You
Tinyfolk - I Don't Believe You
Spare Machine - Josephine
Steinbeck - I Think I Need A New Heart
Manipulator Alligator - Living In...
Monica Y Carlos - Yeah Oh Yeah!
A Lime Tree - You & Me & the Moon
Secret Owl Society - 100 Fireflies
Iji - When The Open Road Is Closing In
Existential Hero - Plant White Roses
The Go-Pills - Queen Of The Savages
Microfilm - The Desperate Things...

Learn more about Microfilm here.

MP3: Microfilm - The Desperate Things You Made Me Do [alt link]

Peaches, Soulwax, Blue States Included On Prince Tribute LP

Controversy is due out on 2/4, here's the track listing:

1. Stina Nordenstam – Purple Rain
2. Blue States – Alphabet Street
3. Susanna & TMO - Condition Of The Heart
4. Osunlade – Crazy You
5. Hefner – Controversy
6. The Dynamics – Girls & Boys
7. Broadway Project – Ballard Of Dorothy Parker
8. 7 Hurtz & Peaches – Sexy Dancer
9. Soulwax – Starfish & Coffee
10. Rob Mello – Critical
11. LB – The Future
12. Kode 9 & Space Ape – Sine Of The Dub

MP3: Prince - Kiss

Magnetic Fields Tribute LP In The Works

Here's more info, courtesy of James Eric's MySpace blog entry: *So are you a recording musician who likes The Magnetic Fields?!?! I want you to contribute to the DIY Magnetic Fields tribute record I'm putting together. It can be any Magnetic Fields song but if you listen to 69 Love Songs, I'm sure you can find something on there you'd like. I will be pressing these professionally on Grey Noise Records in time for Valentine's Day, and then, handing them out for free at all 3 Magnetic Fields concerts in Chicago. I will need all submissions by the first week of February at the very latest. Now let's pretend we're bunny rabbits!*

Contact James here. Our slutty request: 'Underwear'.

MP3: The Magnetic Fields - The Village In The Morning (via Not Fine)

Pixies Tribute LP Complete

Dig For Fire: A Tribute To PIXIES will gets its official release this November. In the meantime, check out the full track listing below. I'm dying to hear the Mogwai, Rosebuds & British Sea Power interpretations!

Bedroom Walls - 'Stormy Weather'
British Sea Power - 'Caribou'
Bunnies - 'Alec Eiffel'
Charles Douglas - 'Bone Machine'
David Miller - 'Manta Ray'
Dylan In The Movies - 'Down To The Well'
Elk City - 'Monkey Gone To Heaven'
Fashion Victims - 'Hey'
Joe Harvard Band - 'In Heaven (Everything Is Fine)'
John Strohm - 'Where Is My Mind?'
Joy Zipper - 'Wave of Mutilation'
Julie Peel - 'The Happening'
Knife and Fork (feat. E.D. Feldman) - 'Motorway To Roswell'
Mogwai - 'Gouge Away'
Morning Theft - 'Ana'
OK Go - 'Gigantic'
PC Munoz - 'I Bleed'
The Commons - 'Here Comes Your Man'
The Rosebuds - 'Break My Body'
They Might Be Giants - 'Havalina'

(photo via Boston.com)

MP3: Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

Ben Kweller & A Parade Of Emo Allstars On Pumpkins Tribute

Ben Kweller covering 'Today'? Now this I have to hear!

The Smashing Pumpkins tribute CD will be available for free with purchase of Spin magazine's July issue. Here's the full list of bands and covers chosen:

Panic! At The Disco - 'Tonight Tonight'
(+44)- 'I Am One'
The Academy Is - 'Mayonnaise'
The Deftones - 'Siva'
30 Seconds The Mars - TBC
The Bravery - 'Rocket'
Young Love - '1979'
The New Amersterdams - 'Thirty Three'
Test Your Reflex - 'Ava Adore'
Ben Kweller - 'Today'
Hawthorne Heights - 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings'
Gliss - 'Rhinoceros'

MP3: Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Track

Mogwai Disapproves Of Beatles Cover Album

Scottish band MOGWAI have attacked artists THE FRATELLIS, KAISER CHIEFS and JAMES MORRISON for making a Beatles cover album, insisting they cannot "pull it off".

A host of bands will record versions of famous Beatles songs for the LP, which marks the 40th anniversary of the Sergeant Peppers album. Mogwai say they're unimpressed with artists attempts to cover the Beatles tracks, although they are working on the release of a new Pixies tribute CD this month (Apr07). Mogwai say on their website, "Such musical wonders as James Morrison and The Fratellis are to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sergeant Pepper's Beatles album by covering songs from it. I cannot wait to hear this meaningful idea... Only thing is, can anyone really better the genius of With A Little Help From My Friends? I know Wet, Wet, Wet came really close but it'll take mastery of music to pull this one off."

For more on the cover album, check here.

MP3: Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous (via Built On A Weak Spot)

The Stills, BSS & Junior Boys Remix Stars 'Fire'!

Oooh, this looks like it's going to be one of the best remix albums in recent history!

Final Fantasy, The Stills, Broken Social Scene, Junior Boys, Metric and a slew of others will tackle a remix album for Stars' last full-length, the brilliant, Set Yourself On Fire, to be titled Do You Trust Your Friends?.

The LP will be out in the fall and includes this tracklist and cover art courtesy of Bitchfork:

Do You Trust Your Friends?:
01 Your Ex-Lover Is Dead [Final Fantasy]
02 Set Yourself on Fire [Montag]
03 Ageless Beauty [The Most Serene Republic]
04 Reunion [Jason Collett]
05 The Big Fight [Minotaur Shock]
06 What I'm Trying to Say Pt. 1 [The Dears]
07 What I'm Trying to Say Pt. 2 [The Dears]
08 One More Night [Apostle of Hustle]
09 Sleep Tonight [Junior Boys]
10 The First Five Times [The Russian Futurists]
11 He Lied About Death [Metric]
12 Celebration Guns [Camouflage Nights with Kevin Drew]
13 Soft Revolution [The Stills]
14 Calendar Girl [Young Galaxy]

MP3: Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (live) (via Defgav)

Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before!

Wow, this is really the year of the tributes/covers/reinterpretations, right? Craziness.

Stop Me If You Think That You Heard This One Before: A Tribute To The Smiths was just released this week and features the following tracklist:

1. How Soon Is Now - t.A.T.u.
2. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish - Bow Wow Wow
3. Ask - Gene Loves Jezebel
4. Panic - Tiffany
5. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - Razed In Black
6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - G.W. Childs
7. Please, Please, Please... - The Autumns
8. Heaven Knows - Sweet & Tender Hooligans
9. Hand In Glove - This Charming Band
10. What Difference Does It Make - Versailles
11. This Charming Man - David Glass (of Christian Death)
12. Bigmouth Strikes Again - Eva O & DJ Eric Ill
13. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - Orlanddissey & Unwoman
14. There is a Light That Never Goes Out (Spanish version) - Sweet & Tender Hooligans

Yes, you're reading correctly, TIFFANY covers 'Panic'. Now that I have to hear! More on the project over at the Cleopatra Records site.

I think if I don't see or hear of another tribute album for the rest of the year, I'd be just fine! With that said, I'm truly itching to listen to this particular collection of Smiths classics. Bow Wow Wow, Gene Loves Jezebel, come on, how can you not be curious?

MP3: The Smiths - Asleep (via Andrea Chiu)

The Freak Folk Madonna Tribute Compilation

Oh, believe it!

It'll be titled 'Through The Wilderness' and will feature Devendra Banhart, Vietnam, Women & Children, Lavender Diamond, Giant Drag, The Chapin Sisters, Bat For Lashes w/ Moon and Moon, The Tyde, Winter Flowers, Apollo Heights, Jonathan Wilson, Mountain Party, Alexandra Hope, Little Death, Siddhartha, Golden Animals & The Pangaeans. Out this September!

Proceeds from sales of the album will help fight against AIDS in Africa, though a specific charity has not yet been selected.

MP3: Madonna - La Isla Bonita

Bjork, Sufjan & Prince Featured On Joni Mitchell Tribute

Via Billboard: Bjork, Prince, James Taylor and Elvis Costello are among the artists who have recorded covers for "A Tribute to Joni Mitchell," due in the spring via Nonesuch. The 11-track set also boasts contributions from Sarah McLachlan, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris and Sufjan Stevens...

Here is the track list for "A Tribute to Joni Mitchell":

"Free Man in Paris," Sufjan Stevens
"Boho Dance," Bjork
"Dreamland," Caetano Veloso
"Don't Interrupt the Sorrow," Brad Mehldau
"For the Roses," Cassandra Wilson
"A Case of U," Prince
"Blue," Sarah McLachlan
"Ladies of the Canyon," Annie Lennox
"Magdalena Laundries," Emmylou Harris
"Edith and the Kingpin," Elvis Costello
"Help Me," k.d. lang
"River," James Taylor

Oh, and yes that really is A BABY PICTURE of Bjork. Adorable, right?

What Do Jarvis Cocker and Beth Orton Have In Common?

Well, they weren't at the Radiohead shows this week (ha!) but seriously.. Jarvis, Beth and others will be featured on the soundtrack to the new biopic about Leonard Cohen.. more info below (thanks Billboard!)


U2, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker and Antony are among the artists paying tribute to legendary singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen on the soundtrack to the new Cohen documentary "I'm Your Man." The film opens July 14 in U.S. theaters, while the soundtrack arrives July 25 via Verve Forecast.

The bulk of the performances here were captured at a January 2005 tribute concert for Cohen in Sydney, Australia, staged by industry vet Hal Willner. At the show, Wainwright belted out "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" and "Everybody Knows," while Cave tackled the classic "Suzanne" and Pulp's Jarvis Cocker reimagined "I Can't Forget."

U2's collaboration with Cohen, "Tower of Song," was recorded separately at the tiny club the Slipper Room on New York's Lower East Side. Interviews with a number of the musicians from the concerts are also interspersed in the film with conversations with Cohen.

"I couldn't make this film without including him because I really wanted these songs to sort of be chapters in his life and blend him into the film in that way," director Lian Lunson told the Hollywood Reporter. "It was the challenge of trying to make that work with a concert with all of these performers and to bring him into the picture, as well, and include this sort of collage, so to speak, of his life through his poetry and his artwork."

Here is the track list for "I'm Your Man":

"I'm Your Man," Nick Cave
"Chelsea Hotel No. 2," Rufus Wainwright
"Everybody Knows," Rufus Wainwright
"The Guests," Laurie Anderson
"If It Be Your Will," Antony
"Sisters of Mercy," Beth Orton
"The Future," Teddy Thompson
"Winter Lady," Kate and Anna McGarrigle
"The Traitor," Martha Wainwright
"Famous Blue Raincoat," the Handsome Family
"Suzanne," Nick Cave
"Bird on a Wire," Perla Batalla
"I Can't Forget," Jarvis Cocker
"Alexandra Leaving," Linda Thompson
"Tonight Will Be Fine," Teddy Thompson
"Tower of Song," Leonard Cohen and U2