Thieves By Tuesday*

First in all of my Weeklies posts is this romance-tinged version. Most of the tracks are a bit old but certainly there is a track here we can relate to.

Weeklies - She's Mine.zip

♫ Day Too Soon - Sia
♫ Forget Me Not - Lucie Silvas
♫ Baby Come Back - Firefall
♫ Don't Break My Heart - Kate Walsh
♫ Postcards From Italy (Beirut Cover) - Florence And The Machine
♫ She's Mine - Brett Dennen
♫ Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
♫ Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins) - Amie Miriello
♫ I Heard Love Is Blind - Amy Winehouse
♫ Lovely Day - Bill Withers
♫ My Heartbeat - Annie
♫ Ça plane pour moi (Original 1977 Version) - Plastic Bertrand
♫ The Giant Illinois - Andrew Bird (from Dark Was The Night)
♫ White Sky - Vampire Weekend
♫ With A Girl Like You - Troggs

Marc Bordons

Electro-pop darling Neon Hitch does this winning track with Sia's melodramatic melody from Breathe Me playing in the periphery of the track and Mike Posner's lyrics. She definitely shows some range with her recent cover of Travie McCoy's Billionaire which you should check out. Not enough to entice you? You'll do a double-take then with this soulful Snoop Dogg approved cover of Drop It Like It's Hot then. Catch her at on the BMI stage at Lollapalooza, 12:30 pm Sunday, 8th of August!

*Neon Hitch isn't a pseudonym guys. It's her legit name. How cool is that?



♫ Neon Hitch - Cooler Than Me (Sia VS Mike Posner)
♫ Neon Hitch - Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Digg cover)

No this is not Diplo. Just a similar depiction of my face when I heard this. Photo Courtesy

The ever so dependable Diplo with the the absolutely awesome dubstep of Sia's Clap Your Hands. I want to rape this song. I've never been the biggest dubstep fan but WTF?! I'm apeshite crazy over this. I feel like my brain is turning to mush but I wouldn't want it any other way. And this video - UNFFFFF. Whatever your argument is, it's invalid.

Sia - Clap Your Hands (Diplo remix)

You better check this mind-blowwwwwing video:

SIA does a covers the Madonna hit "Oh, Father" , and the results are...

Like chalk and cheese. In a good way.

First, let me just stress how I strongly agree that this Madonna song from her hit album Like A Prayer in 1989 is way underrated. "Oh Father" is the 13th song from Sia’s fourth studio album ‘We Are Born’ which has leaked online one week ahead of it’s official release. The album was penned almost entirely by Sia herself, but it does contain a cover of Madonna’s late-80′s classic and ode to child abuse “Oh Father”.

I like the way Sia puts her own spin to the mellow and painful ballad and albeit it seems a little fast in tempo compared to Madonna's, the effect is distinctively different. Sia removed the piano and the strings from the original version, her vocal delivery renders the much necessary drama for the intriguing child abuse-themed track. Aptly eerie and haunting, this cover really shows how Sia made this one her own and not a total copy of the original. Bravo!

Sia’s We Are Born will be available for purchase in Australia on June 18, followed by the States on June 22. While waiting, check “Oh Father” below.

♫ Madonna - Oh Father

♫ Sia - Oh Father(Madonna cover)

I wanted the song to climax, but since it just had this sense of overall hyped up sound, it still is A plus.

MOCHI BEATS- Gifted Stop (Glee + N.A.S.A. + Kanye West + Sia + Santigold + Paula Deanda + Kylie Minogue

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Sia's new track, You've Changed, is a perky addition to her somber and dramatic hits (i.e. Breathe Me). Also something new from Britney Spears track - Infectious - produced by Polow da Don, The Bravery's The Spectator and Lady Gaga's I'm So Happy I Could Die. VV Brown does a Rolling Stones cover, tracks from Mt. Eden and Boys Noize AND YES - The Cold War Kids are BAAAACK. :) Below is a video of Lady Gaga's performance on AMA of Bad Romance/Speechless, Alicia Keys and Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind (which was probably the best performance of the night, give or take) (credit).

:: Sia - You've Changed
:: The Bravery - The Spectator
:: The Cold War Kids - Audience of One
:: Lady Gaga - I'm SO Happy I Could Die
:: Britney Spears - Infectious (prod. by Polow da Don)
:: VV Brown - Miss You (Rolling Stones Cover)
:: Mt. Eden - Seria Leone (Dubstep)
:: Boys Noize - Superfresh (Original Mix)

EXTRA:

Mariah Carey - 100 Percent
Lily Allen - Naive (The Kooks Cover)

BETTER CHECK THESE OUT TOO:

The Big Pink covers Beyonce's Sweet Dreams
Lykke Li sings The Shirelle's Will You Love Me Tomorrow

If you haven't heard, Sia Isobelle Kate Furler or 'Sia' has an upcoming album called We Are Born to be released on 2010 and will be working with Christina Aguilera. You might also find her voice familiar, as she was featured in the new 2010 Lincoln MKT commercial. Also recently, after watching Annie, Sia decided to open up her laptop, load up music program garageband and sang her own version of the track Tomorrow from the classic musical. And I just had to say, thes covers holds promising for the new album.

:: Sia - Under the Milky Way (The Church cover)

:: Sia - Tommorow (Annie Cover)


Despite the call of the season, it's steamy hot here in Southeast Asia and this track is just apt for the weather.

:: Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer



Just because they're awesome and hail from Cincinnati and make real awesome electronic music and happen to be a duo.

:: You, You're Boring - I'm Deaf and You're Boring

This tracks are pure love.

Download | Sia - Day Too Soon

Download | Sia - Day Too Soon (Lifelike Remix)

It's SIA time folks.
This Aussie songstress, is the only person who can make incandescent painted hands, sign language, and neon fashion look emotional with this wonderfully crafted music video.


Download Sia - Soon We'll Be Found

Soon We'll Be Found

Or purchase it over on iTunes

Finally: the "Britney Spears takes over culture" thing is pretty much over, but even after both an All Folked Up feature and a (Re)Covered revisit, her songs continue to crop up everywhere that indie hipsters crave irony...


Today's evidence comes from The Portland Cello Project, which finally hit stores this week after months of slow-burning hype. I'm by no means the first to notice The Portland Cello Project, and technically, they're not folk, either -- critics are calling the guest-vocalist-with-multiple-cello sound chamber pop; their myspace page lists them as indie/classical/rock. Listen through their whole self-titled debut, though, and you may think you've discovered yet another new folk, akin to the experimentation of, say, Abigail Washburn's Sparrow Quartet project (which also features cellist Ben Sollee).

The album tracks each feature collaboration from the Pacific Northwest indiefolk crowd, including star turns from Loch Lomond's Ritchie Young and indiefolk darling Laura Gibson; I especially like the delicate indietune Under Glass, and Stay, a wonderful, plucked-sting acoustic waltz with guest Anna Fritz. Captain Obvious gets cred for picking the Gibson and Under Glass for sampling. And PCP gets TOTAL bonus points here for a secret, hidden covertrack, which sets the Mario Brothers theme song to a classical ensemble sound, and then slowly buries it in a faux-military drumroll -- that no other blogger has mentioned that says what it needs to about how most critics listen to label freebies, sadly.

Whatever you call it, this is surprisingly solid, listenable music, covering a huge range of pleasurable soundscape; though it's among the more upbeat and fun songs on the album, their version of Toxic still comes across as authentic, not just some marching band cover. And since the Britney covers always bring a smile, and given the increasing prevalence of cello in folk music, I'll allow it just this once. With a few other recent Britney covers scavenged from the webs that fall on the edge of folk: Sia's delicate acoustic version of Gimme More, and French-Israeli singer-songwriter Yael Naim's ubiquitous pop-folktronic Toxic, just in case you haven't heard it. And so the trend continues.

CLICK the songs to download.


    * Portland Cello Project: Toxic (orig. Britney Spears)
    * Yael Naim: Toxic (orig. Britney Spears)
    * Sia: Gimme More (orig. Britney Spears)

RADIOHEAD

Play : Download Nude

Play : Download Headmaster Ritual (The Smiths)

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

Play : Download These are Fables

Play : Download Unguided

KINGS OF LEON

Play : Download Joe's Head

Play : Download Sex on Fire

THE GO! TEAM

Play : Download Panther Dash

Play : Download Ladyflash

CSS

Play : Download I Go to the Doctor (Remix for Tetine)

Play : Download Mercury (Remix for Bloc Party)

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

Play : Download Water Curses

Play : Download Street Flash

SIA

Play : Download Breathe Me

Play : Download Gimme More (Britney Spears Cover)

Nicole Atkins and The Sea

Play : Download The Party's Over

Play : Download Maybe Tonight

CHROMEO

Play : Download Tenderoni

Play : Download Bonafied Lovin (Yuksek Remix)

GIRL TALK

Play : Download Shake That Ass in the Line for the Bathroom

Play : Download Lolli Lolli Pop That Kryptonite