Tunes Consumed: the Poutine Silver Platter

It’s been a good week. So good in fact, we’ve been graced by indie-scandal on dual fronts, and the brand new June/July Believer magazine & compilation hit the stands.

On the Jack-White-Needs-A-Decaf side of the world, we find him verbally assaulting a poor dj-girl who dared to (excitedly) leak Icky Thump to the airwaves:

“At 2pm today, during my show, Q101 became the first station in the world to play the new White Stripes album, Icky Thump. It’s awesome. It’s really, really, unbelievably brilliant and awesome. I was giddy and excited to share it with fellow fans… At 4pm today, Jack White called Q101’s main offices from Spain, where they’re touring, looking specifically for me, to yell at ME for leaking the album and, in part, being “messed up for the entire (music) business.”… We tried to explain where we were coming from - someone gave us a copy of a record that we were really excited to play, and the whole experience was an hour-long lovefest for him and his band - but he wasn’t having it. He hung up, very, very angry.”

And then Win Butler lifted some dude’s basketball. Thankfully Win’s brother, Will was quick to the response, sporting the age-old “you have a Puff the Magic Dragon penis tattoo” retort.

On the less-than-insane side of things, the new Believer compilation is pretty awesome. It even has an overarcing concept that goes something like this: “[This] Believer CD should be composed of eight a.m. music/breakfast-substitute jams, like that commercial from a while back with the guy who gets out of bed over and over again while ELO plays over his morning routine. You should tell all of the bands to write/contribute songs worth listening to within three minutes of waking up,” and it does that pretty well.

mp3:
Zach Condon (of Beirut) - Venice
Grizzly Bear - Easier (8am alternate)