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Every holiday season since 1988 has seen R.E.M. sending their fan club holiday treats ? in the form of covers, live recordings, or brand new songs, on every.
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Every holiday season since 1988 has seen R.E.M. sending their fan club holiday treats ? in the form of covers, live recordings, or brand new songs, on every medium from 7?s to splits with Radiohead on VHS tapes. In light of their recent disbanding, 2011 is the last year R.E.M. will drop a special holiday release ? and you don?t have to be a fan club member to stream both tracks here now.
Though we didn?t get any original material from the band this holiday season, we?re super thankful anyway. R.E.M. deliver on fantastic, energetic live recordings of two older tracks in their extensive oeuvre ? ?Perfect Circle,? from their 1983 debut album Murmur, and ?Life and How to Live It,? from their 1985 classic Fables of the Reconstruction. Check both out.
Today, Radiohead?s new single, The Daily Mail / Staircase has been released. You can purchase the two-track single at their web store for $2.50.
We haven?t been able to get enough of twenty-year-old Harlem rapper and singer Azealia Banks since we first heard her completely flawless jam-of-all-jams ?212?, so it?s no surprise we?
Our one complaint about Dave Sitek?s (of TV on the Radio, Maximum Balloon) remix of DOOM?s ?Rhymin Slang? ? why in heaven?s name is it so short!
Arcade Fire just released an amazing interactive video for the best song off their latest album, The Suburbs. We can?y embed the interactive version, so catch the ?traditional?
UK pop star Little Boots has recruited electro producer Michael Woods for her latest track, ?I Wish,? which premiered on BBC radio 1 earlier this week. Like Little Boots?
Tennis are gearing up to release their full-length record, Young and Old, in February, and in the meantime they?re dropping teaser tracks left and right.