There are two ways you can go when you’re covering a song like Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne.” You can try to fill in the colors, adding expressive melodic flourishes that emphasize the emotion in Cohen’s lyrics— or you can take the opposite tack, leaning into the dry, sardonic delivery …
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Courtney Barnett joined Wilco onstage for a “karaoke” performance of “Handshake Drugs” at the band’s Solid Sound Festival this weekend. The annual festival, which takes place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, featured a set on Friday called “Wilco Karaoke,” where other artists and fans could sing Wilco songs …
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Courtney Barnett explores feelings of alienation and inadequacy on new song “Everybody Here Hates You.” “I feel stupid. I feel useless. I feel insane,” she sings over crunching electric guitars, alternating between speak-singing and swooping bent notes. “I feel toothless. Man, you’re ruthless. Ah, yeah/I go to Loving Hut. I …
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