On My Radar: The Walkmen, Golden Birthday, Canada Day, remixes

Seems as if I’m still dealing with technical problems on indie music filter. You’ll notice a hell of a bunch of my posts include weird characters (ie. a question mark in a black diamond), which I think I know how to fix. Also, last weeks issues made my twitter feed go nuts. Sorry if it looked like I was being overly keen on new music, I didn’t mean to clog anyone’s stream. In the meantime, here’s a whack of different things I’m into online.

Yacht cover Weezer’s ‘Holiday’

Check it out here. Quite different from the original, but great in its own way. Claire, (from the Portland duo) used to run the #2 most-popular Weezer fansite, geekrocklove. It comes from an iTunes session which you can find here.

It’s snowing in Toronto

Finally. Dec. 7th is really late for the first snowfall. I was wondering if we were ever going to get any in this changing climate we’re living in. –Cold War Kids have their new track ‘Audience’ on RCRD LBL It’s solid, looking forward to the new record. -You can hear a new Vampire Weekend song […]

Weezer classics in 8-bit form

I recommend a good amount of this. Check out Pterodactyl Squad‘s compilation of Weezer classics made from 8-bit sounds from your favorite old-school video games. This 14 song mix features such songs as In The Garage, Buddy Holly and El Scorcho (my favorite). Now leave it to Weezer to take notice and integrating it into […]