Mark Lanegan, frustrated crooner

The world's best (and lowest) rock voice finds itself toying with ALL kinds of ungodly shit, and, since it's Mark Lanegan, makes it sound surprisingly good. Don't even get me going on the Abba cover ("Solitaire") ...there are also alternate treatments of Chelsea Wolfe's "Flatlands," Nancy's Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice" and Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife."

Here are a couple samples, neither embeddable...but whatever.

"I'm Not the Loving Kind" (John Cale)

"Deepest Shade" (Twilight Singers)

JSBX on Letterman, Cale on Fallon, Sean at Pitt

What a great band, eh?


Also quite liked the John Cale performance on Fallon last week, made me want to check out the album again. Though I guess the big surprise was his rendition of "Venus in Furs" after the main pitch was done.


Here's good news. Sean has been accepted at the University of Pittsburgh, his first acceptance but, I hope, not the last.

John Cale...and Dangermouse

John Cale's got a new album coming out in October, Shifty Adventures in the Nookie Wood, which dips pretty heavily into electronic sounds and hip hop beats. The first single, which is now available for streaming, was produced by Dangermouse.



I'm not quite sure how I feel about this record, even now after listening to it a bunch of times, but it's interesting.

Anyway, a couple of things. last.fm isn't scrobbling my iPod anymore, which means that the chart on this page is not very accurate, so I think I'll take it down.

Also, we're going to Pittsburgh on Wednesday for a college visit at Carnegie-Mellon, so I might be offline for few days.