Nickel Eye f. Wale: "Brandy of the Damned (Ronson Remix)"
Strokes guitarist Nikolai Fraiture gets upstaged on his own song, twice. First, producer Mark Ronson swoops in and spiffs up the rhythm section, replacing the original's white-reggae feel with some brass hits and afrobeat drums. Then Wale steps in and hijacks the final verse, somehow managing [...]

Chris Cornell f. Timbaland: "Part of Me" (Brick Bandits House Remix)
Remember that first song on Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, the one where Chris Cornell lets out the humongous rock and roll scream that sounds sort of like two asteroids colliding? This remix is the diametric opposite of that moment. The original Timbaland produced track was weird enough, [...]

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Camera Obscura: "My Maudlin Career"
The other Scottish indie-pop band paddles down a river of reverb with a lone buzzing guitar hook to guide it. But like similar minded Glasgow-based peers Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura is [...]

A weekly roundup of unreleased songs, new singles, and assorted musical detritus as it trickles out to the Web.
Lil Wayne: "Prom Queen"
Ignore the braggadocio and oblique verse of Tha Carter III: Turns out that Lil Wayne is neither thug nor playful screwball. No, deep inside Wayne's thoroughly inked breast beats the heart of a teenage [...]

U2: "Get on Your Boots"
U2 apparently traveled all the way to Fez, Morocco to work on its forthcoming album No Line on the Horizon, and if "Get on Your Boots" is any indication, they've soaked up plenty of culture. Ethnic percussion, check. Eastern sounding harmonic minor riffs, also check. But there's really no telling [...]