body / negative Covers Red House Painters

LA dreampop/shoegaze artist body / negative just dropped two new cover songs for our ears with "Covers, Pt. 2," in which she takes on tracks by Britney Spears and Red House Painters.  A very different assortment of songs if you ask me.  Anyway, check out her version of Red House Painters' "Grace Cathedral Park" below, featuring an assist from Justin Maranga, and download it here.

Daily Jam - Down Colorful Hill

It's Friday.  And i don't know about the rest of you, but i'm exhausted.  Here's Red House Painters with "Down Colorful Hill," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Song for a Blue Guitar

Someday i may have to do a "Daily Jam (Problematic Artist Week)" to test the waters around these parts.  Speaking of, here's Red House Painters with "Song for a Blue Guitar," our Daily Jam.

White Flowers Cover Red House Painters

Not sure how i missed this back in May, but UK dreampop band White Flowers covered "Katy Song" by Red House Painters and it's wonderful.  It's been a long year though, so these things happen.  Anyway, the "Day by Day" 12" record is long sold out, but you can still get the download via Tough Love here, and check out the group's other releases too.

Daily Jam - Take Me Out

It's a gray and rainy morning, so something from Red House Painters seems appropriate for our Daily Jam.  In more recent years, Mark Kozelek has used a kind of stream of consciousness style of lyric making that's really set his later work apart from the old days.  He's also made a name for himself as being somewhat of a cantankerous asshole, but that's beside the point i guess.  Anyway, all these years later and the "rollercoaster album" (actually a self-titled record but referred to as "Rollercoaster" by fans to distinguish it from the other self-titled album) is still probably my favorite.  Sad bastard music for everyone!  Here's "Take Me Out," our Daily Jam.

Sun Kil Moon - War on Drugs: Suck my Cock

I've been a fan of Mark Kozelek for a number of years, in whatever guise he happens to be making music in, be it Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, or solo, but some of his shenanigans of late have been wearing a little thin, from his verbal abuse of his "fucking hillbilly" audience, to this latest seemingly one-sided feud with Philly band War on Drugs.  And here's the latest shot, Sun Kil Moon's newest jam, "War on Drugs: Suck my Cock."  Part of me thinks this is all some big Kaufmanesque jest, but who really knows?  Mark "sourpuss" Kozelek has a long and painful history of talking shit and hating on his fans...and everyone else.  The song is still kind of pretty though, despite its ugly content.  Listen below.

On a side note, i saw Kozelek perform a couple of years ago in a small and intimate venue, and he is an amazing presence...but we were drunk, and we were rowdy, and we really should not have been at a Mark Kozelek show in the state that we were in.  So we got the fuck out of there before he could berate us.

Sun Kil Moon

Mark Kozelek is prepping a new album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker, and if the first taste, "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes," is any indication, this new record is going to be intense.  Kozelek's practically unmatched acoustic guitar picking skills are paired with the drumming of former Sonic Youth member Steve Shelley, and a stream of consciousness style vocal delivery that is unsettling, and at times almost confusing.  I fucking love it.  Listen below and look for the album in February on Caldo Verde.

Mark Kozelek

Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon mastermind Mark Kozelek loves covers.  The man has been doing stripped down, emotionally stirring versions of everyone from Modest Mouse to Ace Frehley, AC/DC to Simon and Garfunkel, The Cars to our own national anthem, turning the songs into deeply moving, personal gems.  Needless to say, i'm pretty stoked about new album "Like Rats."  On it, Kozelek covers Danzig, Bad Brains, Descendents, Godflesh (from whence the title comes), and more.  Watch the video for the title track below and look for the album from Kozelek's own Caldo Verde Records.