St Vincent: Golden Girls Theme Song

In an atmospheric dirge “cover” of the Golden Girls theme song “Thank You For Being a Friend,” St Vincent (aka Annie Clark) brings out something viewers of the show probably never expected. It’s a minimal, two-minute requiem that’s all haunting synths (and maybe a ghost vocal or two); it abandons the cheer completely but we can’t help but imagine Clark smiling through the whole thing.

Premiere: “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” (Paul Woolford Rework)

Remixing Timo Maas + James Teej's interpretation of a Paul McCartney and Wings' rock song

“Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five” is the perfect curtain-call track to Band on the Run, Paul McCartney and Wings’ third studio album—it’s as funky as it is climactic, with that requisite hue of psychedelia. Jump to 2016: German DJ Timo Maas and Canadian producer James Teej heard the dance floor potential in this decades-old track. After getting a hold of the original 1973 multi-track recordings, the …

Miguel: How Many

Written in just a few hours in response to a harrowing week of violence against black people in the USA, Miguel released the beautifully minimal “How Many.” The chilling synth-soul track gets straight to the point: the first line is “I’m tired of seeing human lives turned into hashtags and prayer hands / I’m tired of watching these murderers get off.” Sadly, this message is …