C’était un Rendez-Vous from Thom Graves on Vimeo.

Steel guitar wiz Alvino Rey and orchestra doing St. Louis Blues, complete with a talking guitar puppet (!). Definitely freaky.

Already In Black (Richard Davies w/ Flaming Lips

CNET Download Music, a site I’ve been closely associated with for the last several years, is disappearing. On March 11, 2009, all pages will redirect to Last.fm. The good news, though, is that Last.fm is an even better site.

This from 1980–a ragged, rowdy time after “Shove It” and before the shooting.

That’s a guitar sound that’ll put hair on your chest.