Single Minded: The Shins Do ?Weeds,? Norah Jones Covers Arcade Fire, ?Don?t Stop Beli
 

Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more.
The Shins, “Little Boxes” [Weeds Theme Cover]
Right, like the Shins have ever smoked pot!
Norah Jones, “Ocean of Noise” [Live Arcade Fire Cover]
Norah Jones manages to make betrayal, isolation and existential anxiety sound sultry and seductive. If you think thats easy, take “Being & Nothingness” along on your next date and let us know how that works out for you.
Petra Haden, “Dont Stop Believin” [Journey Cover]
Hadens rendition comes from Guilt by Association, an album that aims to make mainstream music “safe” for indie rockers via a series of cheeky covers. Which begs the question: When is Miranda Lambert going to make Joanna Newsom safe for the rest of us?
Diplo Mix [Pitchfork Mixtape]
Massive seventy-minute mix plays Bun B after Nirvana after Queen and David Bowie. In the Eighties, there was a name for this: MTV.
Multiple Artists, “Brazil” [Ary Borroso Cover]
The perfect soundtrack for our unraveling theocracy: eight versions of the linchpin music from Terry Gilliams dystopian masterpiece.
Photo: Brian Tamborello


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