What an interesting combination...

Here's a very varied bunch of tunes that my smart playlist served up today.

"Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine

"Grandloves" by Purity Ring, and

"Someone Who's Cool" by Odds

Young Galaxy video for Pretty Boy

Young Galaxy just released Ultramarine, their latest long player. I posted this song back in February, and now it's got an official video. Yay!

Yuck frontman forms new band called Hebronix

I like Yuck. Great energy. Loud guitars and all that. We recently heard that Yuck was going into the studio, minus singer Daniel Blumberg. Turns out, Daniel decided to pursue something new called Hebronix. Here's a song called "Unreal". The album will also be called Unreal and it will be out July 8-9.

Favourites: Radiohead doing "The Bends" for Jools

I've seen a fair number of great performances courtesy of Later with Jools Holland. I hadn't seen this one until now. Killer performance of "The Bends" from the album of the same name by Radiohead.

One of my favourite songs from one of my favourite albums.

Frightened Rabbit covers Cheap Trick

I like Frightened Rabbit. I've posted their tunes and went to their show with Wintersleep at The Phoenix Concert Theatre.

I like Cheap Trick. I've played "I Want You To Want Me" live with a band, I've featured Bob Mould's cover of "Downed" and I've posted about my love of power pop.

The AV Club does their cool covers thing AV Undercover and they had Frightened Rabbit in again. This time they chose Cheap Trick's "Surrender" as their cover. They did a great job of staying faithful to the song while definitely making it their own. Listen below.

Frightened Rabbit covers Cheap Trick