This isn't new, but I just heard it so I figured I would share. It's British band The Kooks taking on MGMT's "Kids". The cool thing about this to me is the fact that it's acoustic. It's always fun to hear a great electro hit covered acoustically because you see how a well written song transcends genres and instrument choices. - Pigeons and Planes
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Jason Grishkoff
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Jul 5, 2012
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11 years ago, The Strokes released Is This It. It was the New York-based band's debut album release, and by Jove did it take the world by storm.The band's success was rooted heavily in word of mouth. In the US, it only sold 16,000 copies in the first...
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Jason Grishkoff
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May 18, 2012
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I'm willing to bet there's a good chance that if you're listening to this right now, it's taking you all the way back to the mid-2000s, when The Strokes' Room On Fire was dominating airwaves.While next year will mark an entire decade since this album...
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Hannah Levy
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Jan 11, 2012
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Maya Laner of Local Hero (we featured their single "Lady Wisconsin" back in December) recently recorded the sweetest little cover song we ever did hear. Her rendition of The Ronettes' 1963 classic ""Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love" is delicate, an...
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Jason Grishkoff
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Nov 21, 2011
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You know what's freaky about this cover? No, it's not that it's amazingly good. It's that Birdy is only fifteen years of age. Yeah, try to wrap your head around that.As you might recall, "1901" in its original form was an upbeat, dancey track that en...
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