Go Home Productions did the Blondie/Doors mashup. I highly recommend the Christina Aguilera/Velvet Underground mashup. My favorite is "Making Plans for Vinyl" (Tweet/XTC). It's still listed but the mp3 is no longer up. I'll send it to Buffistarawk tomorrow. It's really great. There are a bunch of new ones I want to check out, esp. all the Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Stones ones. (He uses "Gimme Shelter" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash," it would take work to fuck that up.)
I don't remember if I've recommended Jerry Jazz Musician before but it's a wonderful site. Here's a really interesting interview with Terry Teachout about his upcoming Louis Armstrong bio. This part especially makes me want to read the biography. JJM has just asked Teachout about comments (e.g., "amateur appraisals") he had written about several critics, including Gary Giddins, Albert Murray, and Stanley Crouch.
I know music as a performer from the bottom up. This doesn't mean that I necessarily feel things about music more accurately than what Gary [Giddins] feels or what Albert Murray feels, but it does mean that I have a kind of equipment that allows me to understand why certain things happen, and to explain them in a way a person without musical training can't always do. And if you're writing what I hope will be a highly serious primary-source biography of the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century, I think perhaps you ought to have a musical background in order to best understand what he went through musically.... Put it this way: I speak the language of music, therefore the hard part for me is to translate that discourse into the language of words. And it can be done. But if you don't speak the language of music to start with, then you're going to be fumbling around in a world you don't fully understand.
The way I've excerpted it it sounds kind of arrogant, but taken with other parts of the interview it seems simply descriptive. He says in so many words that music is ultimately about feeling and that musicians aren't necessarily better at understanding that feeling nor at discussing it. His claim is just that, as a musician, he has analytical tools at his disposal and a language in which to express how the music gets a certain feeling across. That was awkward but I hope I made myself clear. Anyway, as a non-musician who loves music and wishes I better understood the mechanics of the songs and performances I love I hope Teachout puts his money where his mouth is and dishes up some hardcore analysis in language I can understand.
Here's JJM's "Reminiscing in Tempo" feature, which asks musicians and critics questions such as "what's the greatest saxophone solo ever?" and "what musical recording(s) changed your life?" Soundclip links seem way more reliable than in the Teachout interview.