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Beck covers Velvet Underground and Nico’s “Sunday Morning” further solidifying him as an amazing artist.

Jens Lekman gets the swing flu and describes his experience on his smalltalk website “June 27th , 2009

I picked home one last souvenir from South America, it’s called the H1N1 virus. Wrongfully known as the Swineflue.

I was crossing the Atlantic when things started getting really bad, the fever was hallucinogenic and shaking me like a leaf and I grabbed the sleeve of the Air France steward. “I’m not feeling well, I should see a doctor” I said and the reply came as a brilliant mix of death anxiety and french rudeness: “Uh, yes… Terminal D… go there maybe… when we land”. After that the stewards and stewardesses took long detours. A ring of empty seats formed around me. Peoples eyes were kind but determined, they read “Poor you, I really wish you all the best but if you come near me or my kid I will have to stab you with this plastic fork”. I got up and went to the bathroom where I fainted.

Now I’m in quarantine for ten days. I can see the summer through my window and it’s just perfect. Summer is always best through a window.”

Buddyhead is against a Pixies reunion despite their wanting to work with a director like Quentin Tarantino.

Black Heart Procession have readied their new album Six and Temporary Residence is ready for preorder August 1st.  Here is the first single “Rats.”