Refresher: Starbucks is a company that is in the business of selling $5 cups of coffee. Starbucks is also a company that is in the business of selling music. Basically the best business plan imaginable in 2009, good job guys.... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB, DEPT OF EAGLES DO STARBUCKS COVERS COMP»
Posted on January 22, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Carl Newman | Death Cab For Cutie | Department Of Eagles | DeVotchKa | Richard Hawley | Rogue Wave | She And Him | Ted Leo
Tim Burton's cult stop-motion film turns 15 this year, and as previously reported a motley crew of indie and goth-pop acts have recorded covers for an updated soundtrack called Nightmare Revisited. It's fun to hear Polyphonic Spree and Album Leaf... CONTINUE READING DEVOTCHKA, SPARKLEHORSE, ALBUM LEAF COVER THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS»
Posted on October 28, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: Danny Elfman | Datarock | DeVotchKa | RJD2 | Rodrigo Y Gabriela | Sparklehorse | The Album Leaf | The Polyphonic Spree
Get ready goths and Evanescence fans, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. As part of the spooky fanfare, Billboard reports that Walt Disney Records is putting out Nightmare Revisited, a collection of covers, re-recordings, and... CONTINUE READING THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS REVISITED BY VARIOUS ALT AND INDIE ROCKERS»
Posted on August 13, 2008 (30 comments)
Tags: amiina | Bloc Party | Danny Elfman | Datarock | DeVotchKa | Evanescence | Marilyn Manson | RJD2 | The Polyphonic Spree | Tim Burton
This week's Drop had a stringed, burlesqued, Gypsy-cum-Coloradan tune that came courtesy of Little Miss Sunshine soundtrackers and Siouxsie coverers DeVotchka. You can hear the rollicking "Transliterator" from the quartet's forthcoming ANTI- debut A Mad and Faithful Telling, and read... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXII: HEAR NEW DEVOTCHKA, WIN RAY-BANS AND WYCLEF JEAN SWAG»
Posted on January 30, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: DeVotchKa | Wyclef Jean
We're already commiserating over this year's Grammy nods, but it's never too early to get unexcited for the Oscar nods for Best Original Song. Relevance aside, how cool would it be if Spoon or DeVotchKa took home an Oscar? The... CONTINUE READING OSCAR'S MAKING HIS PICKS»
Posted on December 11, 2006 (20 comments)
Tags: Academy Awards | Borat | DeVotchKa | OutKast | Spoon
