White Stripes Reissue Captain Beefheart Covers/Sub Pop Singles
January 4, 2011
Sonic Youth aren’t the only ones to dust off their in-the-vault Captain Beefheart covers in light of the legendary avant garde rocker’s recent passing: Third Man Records announced the 2011 First Quarter package for their subscription service/fanclub, the Vault, today, which includes a double-LP compilation of last year’s singles (we’re talking incredible recordings from Laura Marling, Wanda Jackson, Conan, and more here, people), a 5.6.7.8’s 7-inch, and a reissue of their 2001 Sub Pop Singles Club contribution — “Party of Special Things to Do”, “China Pig,” and “Ashtray Heart” — in honor of both Don Van Vliet and Sub Pop’s Andy Kotowicz, who tragically passed away at only 37 in October.
Join The Vault before January 31 for the aforementioned goods (honestly, this is probably their best offering yet), and revisit the early Stripes take on “China Pig” after the jump:
If it wasn’t for John Lennon, we’d all be someplace very different tonight. It’s an unreasonable world, and you get asked to live with a lot of things that are just unlivable.
Bruce Springsteen on John Lennon
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MG&V which stands for McCauley, Goldsmith, and Vasquez aka John McCauley(frontman of Deer Tick), Taylor Goldsmith (frontman of Dawes), and Matt Vasquez(frontman of Delta Spirit).
QOTD
January 2, 2011
2010 in review
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about *180,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 8 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 617 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 718 posts. There were 490 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 981mb. That’s about 1 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was September 2nd with 24,000 views. The most popular post that day was QOTD.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, twitter.com, ow.ly, facebook.com
Some visitors came searching, mostly for chris coleman kings of leon, nathan followill, dexter and lumen, jared followill, and winklevoss.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
QOTD August 2010
27 comments
Pic of the Day June 2010
6 comments
QOTD July 2010
Pic of the Day July 2010
Listen to Dave August 2010
*FYI According to Stat Counter, (which has much more accurate accounting) I had 224.000 pageloads, and 181,000 unique visitors since March 2010 when I started using Stat Counter.
Sun Airway
January 1, 2011
Vodpod videos no longer available.
zebar music venue
December 31, 2010
No you’re not in the twilight zone, you have just stepped into a live music venue in Shanghai called Zebar. Its undulating cave-like form is created by aperatures cut into fins along its length. Designed by 3GATTI Architecture Studio.
via: blueantstudio
