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I hadn't listened to it in a while, but it's good, power pop-ish version.

I also included the Wondermints awesome cover of Abba's "Knowing Me Knowing You."

Oooh, and now I'm listening to their cover of "Oooh, Child" and it's got all these Beach Boy style backing vocals.

Note: 1) This is a special Japanese import album they did of all covers; 2) They're the backing band for Brian Wilson when he plays live nowadays because they're all multi-instrumentalists and totally dig Brian's sound. They were the band that played the live version of Smile.

From Beep Me:

I have been asked to perform a song with The Cheap Suit Serenaders at their once-yearly gig. [link] This is HUGE for me and I am happy as a little girl.

Whoa, massively cool news, Spidra!

That is super cool news!

I should note, that a couple of the Cheap Suit Serenaders play on Spidra's album as well. So she is well known to them.

The worst album covers of 2010. (Warning: worse than you think. Imagine if ita posted this)

Oh, creepy creepy Danny Gokey! And what is with the weird Jack Sparrow beards on women?

I don't get the Ringo Starr cover as an inclusion, unless it's just being snarky.

I feel like once Asseteria committed to an album named Live From Uranus that cover is the only artistically legitimate direction they could go in, really.

Thanks, Frankenbuddha! Yeah, I'm very honored and excited by it. While I am acquaintanced with a couple of the Suits, I'm not known enough to them all to lay broad hints or anything. :) The new Freight is huge and this will be the largest audience I've ever performed live for. My record before would have been something like 100 people.

'Tis the season for comps! I've written down a couple of my comp ideas and have done some prelim work on one of them.

If you're on iTunes Ping, they added the ability to post playlists, which allows you do to "comps" that you can show to others. I just got an email today about features they've added. My main interest in Ping is promo, but there are some fun things one can potentially do if one likes music and likes social media:

Copy audio from an iPhone or iTunes to your desktop. You can now copy audio from an iPhone or from iTunes to your desktop, and post it on Ping.

Post text, video, and photos using your iPhone 4. You can now post text, video, and photos directly to Ping using your iPhone 4.

Make playlists with friends. Ping makes it easy to create or share playlists. Start a playlist for any occasion from your Ping profile and friends can add any song on iTunes to your mix. Then anyone can rate it, review it, or share it with their own friends on Ping.

Connect with Twitter. Share your music discoveries on Ping with your followers on Twitter. Connect Ping with Twitter to automatically tweet your posts, likes, reviews, and more. Easily see which of your Twitter friends are also on Ping.

Find friends from your webmail address book. Easily see which of your contacts from your MobileMe, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or AOL address books are already on Ping and follow them with a single click.

Even more improvements. Follow over 4,000 of your favorite artists, and see when and where they're on tour. Filter your Recent Activity to see all posts, only posts from artists, or only posts from friends.

Weird mix.

Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, the Alice Cooper Band, Dr. John and Darlene Love will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next spring, the organization will announce Wednesday.

Let's see though...Alice wrote "The Ballad of Dwight Frye" who played Renfield in the Lugosi Dracula and Tom Waits played Renfield in the Coppola Dracula. Darlene and Neil both worked with and for Phil Spector. Tom and Dr. John have long connections over the years, touring together and sharing musicians...