Seeing Beach House open for Grizzly Bear at Bowery Ballroom gave me a new appreciation for the Mazzy Star-esque Baltimore duo. Mazzy Star is one of my favorite bands of all time, so it was good to feel something similar again when Beach House's Victoria Legrand sang - and she can sing, reverb or not. Other comparisons people like to use are Galaxie 500, Spiritualized, and Slowdive. Though apprehensive at first, I loved them in the end.

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I never watched it even once, but it's obviously made big waves in the music world. "Fox announced Wednesday that it has officially deep-sixed The O.C."

Every song ever played in the OC (according to Wikipedia) below....

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My Tuesday night Sirius radio shows have been all over the place so far. I maybe played one song twice in five weeks, and there have only been a handful of artists who I've played more than once. I think that'll be less-and-less true as weeks go on - partly for my sanity because picking 30-something songs each week, not to mention getting them to Sirius so they can make sure they have them in their system, is a lot of work. What I mean is - they'll probably be more repeats as the weeks go on. That said, here's my June 27, 2006 playlist.

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I wanted to open with The Ballet because they're what I've been listening to most lately (the four songs I have anyway), and I'm excited to have them playing my show Thursday night @ Syrup Room.

1) The Ballet - I hate the War

Their anti-war song inspired me to play three more.

2) Neil Young - Living With War
3) The Clash - The Call Up
4) Billy Bragg - The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions

I already played Neil Young, so then I played a Neil Young cover by one of my favorite Brooklyn bands of all time, Type O Negative....

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If this was 10 years ago, I'd probably be running a Mazzy Star fan site instead of a blog. It's not 10 years ago, but I still get excited at every thing Mazzy/Hope Sandoval including Doveman's cover version of Fade into You that they promised to play at Tuesday night's show at Tonic.

DOWNLOAD DOVEMAN (the 'steffani birthday ep' MP3s)
fade into you (by Mazzy Star)
la cienega (by Ryan Adams)
new partner
reflections after jane
chinatown

BONUS (Doveman live @ WNYC MP3s)
honey/only love can break your heart
cities
drinking/boy + angel

Previously
Doveman @ Mercury Lounge, NYC | pics
CMJ-eve is just like CMJ
Doveman @ Joe's Pub, NYC | Pics

I love Mazzy Star and I love Black Sabbath, and now I love Coverville. His new podcast features the Cardigans covering Black Sabbath, Flickerstick covering Mazzy Star, Ben Folds Five doing the Flaming Lips and much more. Download the 1 hour podcast MP3.

While we're on podcasts, did you get episode #5 of Hoboken Rock City yet?

And for something completely random, buy Mike's Simpsons collection.

Previously

John Martyn Covers Portishead | MP3

Watch & Listen | Paul Hester of Crowded House

Hoboken Rock City | Indie Rock Podcast MP3s, Fez & more