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Woke up the other day singing the Nada Surf cover of Enjoy the Silence to myself so I thought I’d share. The track itself comes from their self-released 2010 album If I had a Hi-Fi.

If the job of a cover is to re-invent and re-interpret the song, then this absolutely nails it – lovin’ the way they turn the melancholy into summery, melodic rock =D

I’d never even heard of Hangs / Hang drums before today – check them out! Amazing!

Like playing a flying saucer – really, really well! =D

Another beautiful song by David Bazan / Pedro the Lion, this time from their 2002 album Control (which has a story, no less).

Fair play to the guy, he can definitely write a catchy tune.

From David Bazan / Pedro the Lion‘s 2004 album Achilles Heel, which I only listened to properly for the first time last week (finger on the pulse, huh?):

So beautiful – love it. And just because I looked it up out of curiosity, T. William Walsh is this guy =D

Just noting this for future reference, but I finally got iTunes working properly on a Windows PC that would at random:
- transfer some songs to iPod Touch devices successfully,
- transfer some other songs, then crash, then the device reports no music on it, or
- corrupt the device so badly it needed fresh firmware restored.

And the the culprit turned out to be…. Zone Alarm. No kidding. Turn off Zone Alarm and everything worked instantly.

iTunes is still a god-awful PoS though, but at least it’ll now transfer music and apps. If you’re getting “app could not be installed because it is not signed” issues with iTunes, and you’re installing legit apps, chances are that turning off Zone Alarm will fix it right up. Amazing.