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Girls' Christopher Owens offers up a heartfelt version of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End." ********* elsewhere: Polaroids: Thom Yorke :: Live at the Echoplex | Los Angeles, CA ********

Phoenix keep the free "remixes" coming: here, The Soft Pack (formerly the the Muslims) turns "Fences" into one of their signature Strokes-esque detached garage jams. The band says:"Phoenix are these cool French guys. We recorded our version of "Fences" with Rob Barbato of Darker My Love...

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Thanks to transparent for the introduction to the lush, Cocteau Twins/Shop Assistants-influenced rainy day dream-pop of VA's Jack Tatum, aka Wild Nothing. We can look forward to an official release soon on the undisputed label of the year, but in the meantime, be sure to check the handful of legit hits on his myspace page, as well as this perfectly wistful little gem: mp3: **********

Fever Ray offers up this eerie and oddly affecting cover of Vashti Bunyan's "Here Before" -- complete with vaguely disturbing cooing baby -- on her new "very limited"/numbered tour 7". Stream it below, and pick up the 7", with cover art by Mattias Nilsson, here...

The second completely faithful '80s cover from Julian Lynch in about a week, via the always great Friendship Bracelet. Pick up Lynch's new LP, Orange You Glad, here. mp3: ***********

The UK's Friendly Fires are supporting Swedish pop heroine Lykke Li on her current, mostly sold-out U.S. tour (thanks for skipping TX, guys). Before they left their home in St. Albans, they kicked out this cosmic-disco* cover of Lykke's "I'm Good I'm Gone," which Beggars was kind enough to send over for us to premiere. If you're up for even more danceable Friendly Fires, go here to grab

"radiohead fans don't hate me!" -- banjo or freakout mp3: ******************************************** Previously: Banjo or Freakout has also rendered Burial's "Archangel" even darker and eerier, improved upon Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," and I'm still not sure what he did to Invisible Conga People's "Cable Dazed...

(photo) Since hearing his haunted cover of Burial's "Archangel," I've made it a habit to hit up Banjo or Freakout's blog on a regular basis. He continues to drop daily gems over there, including this killer cover of Invisible Conga People's "Cable Dazed...

Thanks to all-around good guy YANP for the tip on this one. I've probably mentioned eight times by now that the Ruby Suns are collaborating with Esau Mwamwaya on his upcoming LP. What I didn't know is that Esau also joined the band on their gloriously uplifting afro-beat cover of "Birthday," confirming that everything the man touches indeed turns immediately to gold...