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QOTSA and PJ Harvey back from a Desert Session
Make It Wit Chu appeared on QOTSA's Era Vulgaris LP but was originally crafted at the infamous Desert Sessions (Vol 9 & 10). Josh Homme just announced he's heading back to the desert to record his band's sixth studio album, and this smooth number with PJ Harvey shows what a little bit of 'scorching desolation' can do. TP

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Weird Al Yankovic: Trapped In The Closet parody
If you haven't seen any Trapped In The Closet (R Kelly's brilliant, is-this-real-or-is-this-a-joke series of operettas), then watch some. Then check out Trapped In The Drive-Thru, Weird Al's parody. It's equally brilliant. CW

A spot of eerie, cosmic, 70s electronica: Powers Of Ten
Elmer Bernstein might be better known for writing famous scores such as The Magnificent Seven, but here's something completely different. Powers Of Ten is a Look Around You-esque short film "dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and the accompanying electronic music – written by Bernstein – is truly haunting. And equally equally brilliant. CW

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Howlin Rain: Live In San Francisco
If the reason to learn music is to play live (as well as to look cool/appease creative muse/hit it off with sexy people/delete as applicable), then time for a few live performances from bands who've blown me away live recently. Looking through the ticket stubs, first up is Howlin Rain. An increasingly hairy cross between the Allman Brothers and frontman Ethan Miller's old band Comets On Fire (who once slayed my ears for three days), I saw these guys in the back of a pub but that didn't stop them playing like it was the Fillmore in 1973. Blues/psych/West Coast/funk bliss – just off tour with the Black Crowes, catch this band now before they hit the arena circuit on their own. MG