It’s difficult to touch a classic, especially one by Queen, and actually do a good job covering the song. One such song is by The Flaming Lips (one of my favorite bands of all time) doing a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. If there’s one band in the whole world who could do the song justice, The Flaming Lips are it, and I’m glad to see them do it. The video and more information on the cover can be read at Stereogum. Enjoy it below:

Are you a fan of Queen?  Do you love Freddy Mercury?  Get your own microphone and practice your skills.  Start your own band with a drum set and guitar.  You will be singing Bohemian Rhapsody in no time.

For a lot of people, music is the stuff you hear on the radio, or see on VH-1 (MTV doesn’t show much music these days.)  So to a lot of people, there are sub-genres of music out there that they know nothing about, or if they had, had no idea what it was.  As much as I am into music, I’m overwhelmed by all the little sub-genres out there.

In this post, I thought I’d cover a few and give an example song of that style.  Who knows, maybe you’ll broaden your taste in music.

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I was so enthralled with The Arcade Fire when the Funeral album in late 2004 came out, that I bought the physical album, which was something I hadn’t done in years.  I’d always buy my music online.  Now with their new album, Neon Bible, right around the corner (March-April 2007), I’m getting excited again.

A couple of days ago they released a teaser from the new album, called Intervention, which you can hear below.

Update: I remembered that I have a live recording of Intervention from The Arcade Fire when they played for the Santa Monica college radio station, KCRW. The difference from the retail and the live version is remarkable, but I absolutely love both. Here’s the song for your listening pleasure:

I’ve been getting a lot of emails from visitors to the site telling me that they heard about this site, thanks to a mention on Colin Murray’s “The Black Hole” show on the BBC’s Radio 1 radio station.  Colin’s show features internet music submitted by listeners, and according to him, this site’s Tunes page was the best submission for the show.

First off, thank you to everyone that has written in with kind words, it is always appreciated.  Secondly, I can’t describe how great to hear that my puny, little blog got mentioned on such a large radio station.  It made the effort of putting all the songs up, getting the player together, and answering a ton of questions well worth it.

After perusing Colin Murray’s page, I found where he mentioned this site on the air,  and you can hear a clip of it below:

Due to popular demand, I’ve made available torrents for each volume of mashups on the Tunes page. I am uploading this from my own connection, and I can upload up to 245kB/sec, so it may take a little while for more seeders other than me to happen and the speed to increase. Enjoy!

Update: Already there’s been a few people who completed a volume and disappeared, instead of helping to seed. I can’t do all the uploading by myself, it’d take me forever to get it to everyone that wants these volumes. So if you decide to download a volume, please help seed so others can enjoy these tunes as well.

The Black Keys came out around the time The White Stripes did, but since The Black Keys are more low-fi and less mainstream but pure bluesy rock, they didn’t get as much exposure as The White Stripes.  This isn’t a knock against The White Stripes, as I think they are excellent too, but when I want the raw blues rock, The Black Keys is just the ticket for me.

This song is Your Touch, and is based off their newest album, Magic Potion.  I can’t recommend The Black Keys enough, as I always find myself gravitating towards their music when I’m very picky, when no other music fits my mood.

Here’s an awesome 23 minute long mashup megamix from Cheekyboy that’ll put you in the Halloween spirit.  It belongs to a collection of mashups called Bride of Monster Mashup, where you can download a whole CD’s worth of great mashups.