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What album from 2007 was the least-reviewed and most-underrated?

The Charm and the Strange by Simon Wilcox. Even Larry LeBlanc thinks so:

“Simon Wilcox is an astounding find. On the first listen to her third release I had the same reaction to when I first head the recorded debuts of Kate Bush and Mary Margaret O’Hara as well as to hearing any Van Morrison album in the ’70s. She has recorded a classic work.”

It’s an amazing record - get it.

Here’s the latest video from the release:

Download an mp3 of The Kooks and Simon Wilcox covering Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks”…

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I heard the Queens of the Stone Age cover of Romeo Void’s “Never Say Never” on woxy last night as I prepared a turkey meatloaf - the meal of choice to accompany an impending evening of Battlestar Galactica (three episodes in a row… my head is still spinning).

Never Say Never - Queens of the Stone Age

Wow - what a great cover. Not usually my cup of tea genre-wise, Queens of the Stone Age consistently impress my pants off.

* This cover is ancient! It lives on the The Punisher soundtrack, and um, no wonder I missed it. Could I care less about this movie or any of the other bands on the soundtrack?

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via Sterogum:

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It’s not Sunday, but fuck it, this is too great a cover to wait.

From NME’s free disc, The Kooks and Simon Wilcox cover Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks”…

The Kooks
Simon Wilcox
Peter Bjorn and John

via afrojacks.com…

Download Amplive’s Rainydayz Remixes, an 8-track collection featuring remixes of Radiohead’s historic seventh album, In Rainbows. The songs are available in a zip file below and feature verses courtesy of Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, and Del the Funky Homosapien.

Tracklist 01 Rainydayz 02 Video Tapez (ft. Del The Funky Homosapien) 03 Nudez (ft. Too $hort & MC Zumbi of Zion I) 04 Weird Fishez 05 All I Need 06 15 Stepz (ft. Codany Holiday) 07 Reckonerz (ft. Chali2na) 08 Faustz

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Download it: Spiritual High (State of Independence) Pt.2 *

About it: From the album Moodfood, “Spiritual High” is a three part suite that revisits Jon & Vangelis’ “State of Independence”. Part one is instrumental, part two features the vocals of Chrissie Hynde (the featured download this week) and part three samples Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 Lincoln Memorial speech.

The song was featured during the closing credits of the film Single White Female.

Buy it: iTunes

* file is available for one week

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