I Got No Style

Although Memorial Day is and always has been a rather meaningless holiday for me (its major significance for me being that HBO skips that weekend, and so I have to wait an extra week for the season finale of The Sopranos, as I did last year for Six Feet Under), I will be taking this coming Monday off. If all goes well, things will be back to the regular schedule on Tuesday, at which time the site will have a bold new look. I’ve been meaning to redesign this site for quite a while now – it is time to move on from the stark white look and go for something more colorful and pop.

Scout Niblett “Uptown Top Ranking” – This is an acoustic cover of the Althea & Donna song, performed in a Cat Power-esque style by a woman with a very unfortunate stage name. There’s not a lot much more to it than that, really. This doesn’t touch the original, but the song lends itself to this kind of spare, funereal approach better than one might expect. (Click here to buy it from Rough Trade, or here as a digital single package from Too Pure.)

Elsewhere: Thom: Weblog has compiled what could be the most comprehensive list of MP3 blogs on the net, with yet more new blogs linked in the comments section. Frankly, it’s staggering just how many of these things have popped up within 18 months.