Juicy.

Keep it light.

Cooler than ice cold

Check out the video for ‘Tighten Up’, co-produced by Danger Mouse…

His voice will always be remembered as one of the most powerful instruments in rock, may his sweet soul rest in heaven.

When there’s lightning – it always bring me down
Cause it’s free and I see that it’s me
Who’s lost and never found
I cry for magic – I feel it dancing in the light
But it was cold – I lost my hold
To the shadows of the night

There’s no sign of the morning coming
You’ve been left on your own
Like a Rainbow in the Dark

Do your demons – do they ever let you go
When you’ve tried – do they hide -deep inside
Is it someone that you know
You’re a picture – just an image caught in time
We’re a lie – you and I
We’re words without a rhyme

There’s no sign of the morning coming
You’ve been left on your own
Like a Rainbow in the Dark

When there’s lightning – it always brings me down
Cause it’s free and I see that it’s me
Who’s lost and never found
Feel the magic -feel it dancing in the air
But it’s fear – and you’ll hear
It calling you beware

There’s no sign of the morning coming
There’s no sight of the day
You’ve been left on your own
Like a Rainbow in the Dark

Jack White and friends release the second installment of the Dead Weather saga, Sea of Cowards.

Check out the official video for “Die By the Drop”.

Also, a ‘Sea of Cowards’ full album listen is available on NPR. Both are after the jump.

First Listen: The Dead Weather, Sea of Cowards

So you’re wishing that you never did,
All the embarrassing things you’ve done?

And you’re wishing you could set it right
And you’re wishing you could stay the night
But then I go again, wishing never solved a problem
If you wanna get it big time, go ahead and get it get it big time

So I think I can solve all my problems by myself
Nevermind, nevermind, nevermind, nevermind
And you think you can solve all your problems by yourself
Nevermind, nevermind, nevermind, nevermind

Oh, give it, give it, give it, give it, give it
Until you just can’t give no more
Oh, give it, give it, give it, give it, give it
Until you just can’t give no more

Oh, give it, give it, give it, give it, give it
Until you just can’t give no more
Oh, give it, give it, give it, give it, give it
Until you just can’t give no more

Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea

Only love
Can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers
Laying in the fields.

Love, Reign o’er me
Love, Reign o’er me, rain on me

Only love
Can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky
Only love
Can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high

Love Reign O’er me

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool cool rain
I can’t sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain

Who’d have thought the psych-folk pile, already teetering on the brink of over-saturation, would peak with Yeasayer’s second album? With the exception of opener The Children, which sounds like a forgotten Fever Ray track, Anand Wilder, Chris Keating and Ira Wolf Tuton have gone bigger, better and more cohesive.

Campy 80s synths are tempered by songwriting that’s so strong, you never feel the Brooklyn trio’s drifting toward parody. The echo-chambered ascents, descents and falsetto crescendos glue themselves in your mind, especially on highlight I Remember. O.N.E. hits harder with African rhythmic thumps that other bands are doing, just not this well.

Hopefully there’s still enough room on people’s psych plates for Odd Blood, a masterful follow-up that deserves to get into your ears.

NOW Magazine

Listen to Mondegreen after the jump

In an era when “cover” often means emasculation via tasteful piano or kitschy synth, Supergrass’ Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey deliver 12 blasts of stylistic tinkering that never subsume the songs’ original intent: to rock. Slathered in amp-busting fuzz and gussied up with signal interference courtesy of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Turn Ons leaves certain classics (the Kinks’ “Big Sky”) intact — but louder. The best remakes, though, surprise: On “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!),” the Beastie Boys become falsetto-voiced psych shamans, and most amazingly, the Doors (”The Crystal Ship”) turn awesome with the magic of tectonic feedback.

Spin

Check out the Hot Rats performing live on the David Letterman Show after the jump…

Teddy Pendergrass, R.I.P. 1950-2010

Wake up everybody no more sleepin in bed
No more backward thinkin time for thinkin ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be so
there is so much hatred war an’ poverty
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they’ll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they’re the ones who’s coming up and the world is in their hands
when you teach the children teach em the very best you can.

Chorus
The world won’t get no better if we just let it be
The world won’t get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me.

Wake up all the doctors make the ol’ people well
They’re the ones who suffer an’ who catch all the hell
But they don’t have so very long before the Judgement Day
So won’tcha make them happy before they pass away.
Wake up all the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out they do it every time.

Repeat Chorus