Are you sick of In Rainbows yet? No? Well if you think you might eventually get that way, you’ll want to download Amplive’s much-delayed remixes of Radiohead’s last album just in case, before they and their lawyers change their minds. After all the hoopla it’s more of a curio than anything, though hearing Too $hort rapping over a funkily reconstituted “Nude” justifies the whole thing. Can this pave the way for a Radiohead rap collab album, honest-to-blog? Actually that would be terrible — almost as terrible as the phrase “honest-to-blog” — but on some level you’ve got to respect the effort at boundary-crossing as well as the rampant creativity still flourishing online, even if you wouldn’t pay money for it. (www.onesevensevensix.com/amplive/index.html)
VERDICT: ROCKS
EYE WEEKLY is all about the stunt guest-column. (I pray that one day when Totally Wired calls in sick, my boss will hire Mr. T.) But while the Onion AV Club’s recruitment of Slug from Atmosphere for Valentine’s Day had some promise — “Crying is a common defense mechanism for the women who sleep with you” being a rejoinder whose curtness makes even our own Sasha shudder — it’s got nothin’ on an appearance by famed fictional rock critic Ronald Thomas Clontle that we somehow missed last May. Invented by WFMU DJs Scharpling & Wurster (pictured), Clontle ranked the top 10 bestselling artists on eMusic (whose editorial content remains among the best online) according to his own somewhat arbitrary system. Clontle on Yo La Tengo, who he claims are Mexican: “Extra points for having a band name that’s a sentence. I believe Yo La Tengo is Spanish for ‘Yo, let’s tango!’” Does it even need to be said? RULES. (www.avclub.com/content/feature/dear_slug; eMusic: http://tinyurl.com/yobq2d)
MP3 OF THE WEEK
Kanye West, “Hey Mama (Grammy remix)”: Pour one out for Donda West with this one. And feel free to use it to also silence that pesky background music. (From the net)