Chromatics

I thought something was up.  So, last night Johnny Jewel dropped a surprise Chromatics album...that's not "Dear Tommy."  Who knows if that will ever actually come out, but for the time being at least, we've got some new music from the band with their latest offering "Closer to Grey."  Check out the album opening cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" below and download the record here from Italians Do It Better.

Daily Jam - En ton av Tystnad (The Sound of Silence)

We stan for ABBA around these parts, and i guess that means solo careers as well.  Anni-Frid Lyngstad released her first solo outing "Frida" in 1971, and it included a lovely, though kind of maudlin, cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" sung in her native Swedish.  I heard this for the first time a couple of years ago, and it's kind of been stuck in my head ever since.  Listen to "En ton av Tystnad" below, our Daily Jam.

Tim Heidecker - I Am A Cuck

On his latest song, "I Am A Cuck," comedian Tim Heidecker goes the political comedy route, parodying Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am A Rock" to skewer the "alt-right," the steaming, festering side of the political right whose views are rooted in racism, misogyny, and white nationalism.  And it's pretty effective, using that movement's buzzwords and insults, and spitting them right back at them.  Seriously though, fuck those guys.  Listen below.