Ears on fire! 7.6.11 edition

First of all I’d like to thank the good people over at “Kevin Bourgeois” for initially directing me to the A.V.Club’s video page by posting a link of TMBG performing a Chumbawumba ditty. In case you don’t know about this whole thing, (admittedly I hadn’t up until then), the A.V.Club has a list of 25 songs that people submitted. Then 25 different bands come in and choose a song off the list to perform live in the A.V.Club’s office. Once a song has been performed, it get crossed off the list and cannot be chosen by a later band. So as things progress there are less and less songs from which to choose.
The TMBG performance was once of those. And they nailed it by bringing in what I guess was the entire office staff to belt out the mob chant of “I get knocked down!” on the choruses. You can see that video by following this link [http://www.avclub.com/articles/they-might-be-giants-covers-chumbawamba,53068/ ].
After rocking out to this vid, I perused some of the other vids (including some from the previous year) and was glad that I did. Some of the other incrediblastic covers included : Of Montreal doing White Stripes; Coheed and Cambria covering the Smiths; Rise Against doing Nirvana; and Ben Folds intimate tribute to Elliott Smith.
As awesome as all of these were, the one performance that prompted me to lay fingertips to keyboard and has been dominating half of my recent listening (we’ll get to the other half in a sec) was that of Wye Oak’s take on the Danzig sonic juggernaut, “Mother”. Just go and bear witness [http://www.avclub.com/articles/wye-oak-covers-danzig,53066/ ]. Wye Oak was a band that knew little about, but you can be sure that I’ll seek out more from them in the near future.
Now the other half of my recent listening has been pretty packed with music by somebody with whom I'm far more familiar. And yes I am of course speaking of Darryl Jenifer who you might know as the towering bassist of groundbreaking punk-rastas Bad Brains. Well he’s releasing a new solo album entitled, “In Search of Black Judas.” Visit his page [http://www.darryljenifer.com/ ] to hear the 2 tracks I'm been loving so much and to see everything else that Darryl and his big green bass has been up to.