Music: Hooray!

I've covered DJ Earworm's spectacular mashups before, but I must inform you that he has a new song up on his site called  "Together As One". Take a listen. It involves U2, The Beatles, Diana Ross, and Mariah Carey. In my opinion this is one of the only ways (besides the mute button) to make Mariah tolerable. That sums up the quality of this track.

Secondly, there is a super secret (or not) cache of youtube videos by what seems to be a small group of French bloggers called La Blogotheque. Their videos have low production values but tend toward the awesome. Filmed mostly in Paris, but sometimes elsewhere, they feature global indie bands big and small including REM, Of Montreal, Beirut, and the Shins. Unlike other music videos, these have an interesting twist - such as performing in public to unsuspecting French people, singing in an apartment bathroom, or shoving the entire Arcade Fire into an elevator. Why? On ne sait pas.

Here are two of my favorite Blogotheque videos. Cold War Kids singing "St. John" while being pushed on a cart through a factory, and Grizzly Bear singing "The Knife" a capella while strolling through Paris. The a capella version is as good or better than the album version.

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