I Love a Good Cover Song, don’t you?

How cool is this: Eat, Sleep, Drink Music Blog let us into the fact that  the A.V. Club is has launched a new series “Undercover” The series is 25 artists each doing 25 cover songs. I love a good cover. The first band is Ted Leo and The Pharamacists doing “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. Here’s the details

Random News for the sick girl

I’m not feeling well and getting worse by the moment irrespective of OJ guzzling. So I don’t have enough energy to think about which of these items I want to post about, therefore, I’m putting them all in one.

Here we go:

• A book about Record Stores

• Here’s a trailer for the Pride ad Prejudice and Zombies book prequel ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Quirk Classics: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)‘ out next Tuesday.

• Would you subscribe to get books?

• PBS doc ‘Earth Days‘ will premiere on Facebook on April 11

• Florida band Surfer Blood talks to Paste

• NPR has an article about Peter Gabriel‘s cover album

• and finally, Mike Tyson and his pigeons

Drinking book for St. Patty’s week

I can’t believe I’ve never seen Zane Lamprey’s cult hit TV show Three Sheets, which is all about drinking! It airs weeknights at 10pm (will check it out tonight!) on the Fine Living Network. You can also watch full episodes on Hulu. Out today is his new book Three Sheets: Drinking Made Easy! 6 Continents, 15 Countries, 190 Drinks, and 1 Mean Hangover! about what else drinking.

I’m feeling a little under the weather today, so I’ve been slowly adding new releases to the Amazon links page…more to come as I feel better.

All About SXSW 2010 UPDATED

Preview artists playing the annual music conference on Shoutcast Radio. Here’s the details... Here’s the full showcase schedule… Here’s a handy video playlist of the performers at this year’s conference. NPR’s SXSW playlist and webcast schedule

UPDATE: It looks like a lot of performances from this year’s conference will be streaming on this site and on IFC.com and here’s WOXY.com’s broadcast schedule