Clipse (ft. Pharrell): "I'm Good"
Clipse has finally leaked a track from it's long-in-the-works follow up to Hell Hath No Fury and, surprisingly, it's a love song. But before you get down on the dour coke-rap duo for going gushy, keep in mind that that the object of Clipse's adoration on "I'm Good" is Clipse. Pusha [...]

Jay-Z: "Death of Autotune"
Cranky old fogey Jay-Z steps up to the mic and lets the young people know how it used to be back in the day, when a real rapper, like, say, Biz Markie, could take a quivering, reedy voice and make a hit. "You rappers singing too much/ get back to rap/ you're [...]

Magnolia Electric Co.: "Josephine"
You'd think that Jason Molina, lead songwriter of Magnolia Electric Co., would be pretty close to writing the perfect break-up song by now. After all, he's had roughly 14 records (between Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., and solo, not including live albums) worth of them to work out his approach. But he's pretty [...]

Elvis Costello: "The Crooked Line"
It's hard to tell what's more shocking here: the twangy vibe, or the fact that Elvis Costello is singing about love without sounding poisonous and bitter. "The Crooked Line," snatched from his upcoming record Secret, Profane, & Sucarcane, finds Costello going full-on country for the first time since King of America [...]

Modest Mouse: "Satellite Skin"
The less sense that Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock makes, the more sincere he sounds. For example, the non-sequitur riddled "Heart Cooks Brain," far more affecting than linear drivel like "Fire It Up." "Satellite Skin," a long-delayed Record Store Day exclusive, falls into the first category, with Brock opening up the hick-psych [...]

The Black Lips (feat. Gza): "The Drop I Hold"
Basically just the same borderline-hilarious 36 Chambers homage that appeared on the Black Lips most recent record, 200 Million Thousand, except there's a verse from Wu-Tang's Gza smooshed onto the end. "A simple word from Black Lips that sink ships before I fire off one that give [...]

Sonic Youth: "Sacred Trickster"
For a while there Sonic Youth was becoming a band that your dad could maybe get down with. Well, as long as your dad was a baby boomer with a taste for Bare Trees-era Fleetwood Mac. No more, though. “Sacred Trickster”, from the band’s forthcoming record The Eternal, brings back the diminished [...]

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Bob Dylan: "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
Leave it to Bob Dylan to make dad-rock feel post-apocalyptic. There’s not that much to the song—just your typical blooze jam with a little bit of accordion dropped in for flavor—but Dylan’s gravelly and [...]

P.O.S.: "Why Go Home"
After Limp Bizkit, everybody can pretty much agree that the grunge-rap hybrid thing didn't work out too well. But if you flip that formula around—if you go rap-grunge—the results aren't all that bad. Or at least that's how it seems on P.O.S.'s cover of Pearl Jam's "Why Go." The Minneapolis-based rapper even [...]

Ghostface: "Message From Ghost"
Ghostface gets tender here, turning in one for all the struggling ladies out there. His sentiments are right on, but his metaphors are another matter. "Your last man had you mad open like a pap smear, but that's the past dear," raps Ghost. In a word, yuck.
St. Vincent: "The Strangers"
Sure, there [...]