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The glorious Bastard

It’s fitting that on this Friday the 13th that we mourn the loss of 'Ol Dirty Bastard, the Wu Tang member we lost today five years ago. In his honour, we present the original acceptance-speech interruption, as ODB crashes Shawn Colvin's Grammy win to declare, “Wu Tang is for the children.” ODB: ain't nothin' to fuck with, always and forever.




BECK, FEIST, WILCO, JAMIE LIDELL COVER SKIP SPENCE
Five months in and Beck’s Record Club is still going strong, which is more than I can say for my own short-lived subscription to the Columbia House Record Club. This month he and a group of pals that include Feist, Wilco, Jamie Lidell and Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer cover Moby Grape member Skip Spence’s 1969 solo album Oar. Listen to lead off track “Little Hands” over at the Record Club website. 


FRIDAY NIGHT MIX: THE LINDSTROM FACT-OR
Out of the UK, FACT magazine gets notable DJs to comprise mini-playlists of their favourite musical influences. The 100th edition comes from Norway producer Lindstrom, who puts yacht-rock, quirky psychedelia and killer Zeppelin into his mix. Download it here.

Tracklist:
1. Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - Kalyani
2. Jobriath - World Without End
3. Hall and Oates - Is It A Star?
4. Abba - Eagle
5. Tears for Fears - The Big Chair
6. Led Zeppelin - Bonzo´s Montreux
7. Robert Wyatt - Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
8. Black Sabbath - Breakout
9. Uli Jon Roth - The Night the Master Comes
10. Ciledaknuf - Thgil Dna Ygolue 


RAIN MACHINE ON THE TV (IF NOT RADIO)
TV on the Radio founder-turned-Rain Machine maker Kyp Malone takes time to play his surprisingly not-Twilight-influenced single “Give Blood” in what looks to be an abandoned hotel room.




CHRIS BROWN WILL NOT ATONE FOR HIS SINS
“So many women in the atmosphere, gotta leave with at least three and a pair,” brags Chris Brown in his new, un-AutoTuned single “Sing Like Me.” Though he’s been running the media circuit pretty hard since the Rihanna abuse incident, somehow it feels wrong to hear Brown brag about his lady-wooing skills after images of brutal domestic violence created a worldwide scandal. As for Rihanna, who recently appeared on Diane Sawyer, she hopes Brown will “learn something positive from the experience.” Read Raquel Cepeda’s dialogue with an eight-grade class in Harlem for insight on the consequences of domestic abuse.

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