(Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor and Keith Richards goofing with guest musicians in front of Villa Nellcote)
 
Just got back from purchasing, that’s right, purchasing, the newly remastered version of Exile on Main St. (I’m about to pop in the bonus disc.  Wow, alternate versions of both Loving Cup and Soul Survivor).  As mentioned previously, I’ve been looking forward to this thing with equal doses of curiosity and dread (no harm done, says Pitchfork, who score it a perfect 10), but, echoing Mr. Laner, what I’m really waiting for comes out June 22nd, the BBC’s making-of-the-album doc, The Stones In Exile.

Judging here by Mick’s grin at Cannes (and despite his periodic downplaying of the album’s signficance), he’s definitely pleased with the end product.  As the mythology behind Exile taps into so many things I’m particularly resonant to beyond the Stones themselves—Los Angeles, the eye of Robert Frank, notions of, well, “exile”— I’m sure I’ll be, ahem, happy, too.

What follows is a stellar clip off Exile, the Stones’ cover of Slim Harpo‘s Shake Your Hips.  Recorded in Montreaux in ‘72, various versions of this have been floating around online, but this one’s looking sharp! 

 
More on Exile:

The Rolling Stones shine a light on ‘Exile on Main St.’ reissue

Rolling Stones set to top British album charts for first time in 16 years

Cannes Film Festival 2010: Stephen Kijak rolls with ‘Stones in Exile’

Sympathy for the tongue: an interview with the logo of wealth and taste

Rolling Stones bonus track: Following The River

 
I go waaaay back with Kid606 and I’ve always preferred his so-called ambient jams to his more widely known and rather pioneering mash-up tracks, so I’m happy to report that his latest cheekily-titled missive (obviously a parody of this) is some of his finest work in this realm to date. Have a listen :
 

 
bonus clip: an early hit by the Kid, actually an insanely entertaining remix by Hrvatski

 
Kid606-Songs About Fucking Steve Albini

 
Kevin Nguyen wonders what it would be like to chat up the women that define scandalous hipster chic:

“If you could have any kind of dog, what would you have? I think I would get a corgi. Corgis are my favorite.”

“Haha, yeah, corgis are the best!”

Imaginary conversations with American Apparel Models (Bygone Bureau)

Thank you, Jesse Merlin!

Really beautiful “fashion meets food” images by Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia for his book “A Matter of Taste.” Gorgeous.

Fulvio Bonavia

(via way too many blogs to list!)

 
Following on from Elvin’s post about Biebians, below, I thought I’d post this cool tee-shirt image rendering the teen heartthrob ala the Misfits logo. (It’s pretty amazing to consider that Justin Bieber has only been on the scene such a short time, but his hairstyle has already become iconic!)

Pop music has always had it’s fair share of copy cats.  It isn’t a coincidence that every pop song released after Beatlemania featured harmonies.  It wasn’t an accident that hard riffin’ rock blew up after Led Zeppelin.  Hell, even Led Zeppelin literally stole a song from Jake Holmes and even that went unnoticed.  So it is rare when the media actually calls out some one for being a copy cat, biter, thief or how ever you may want to label it.  Such is the case with current pop phenomenon Owl City, which critics have slagged as a Postal Service rip-off.  The fine folks at Barely Political have Weird Al’d Owl City with this genius parody.  Down below is the true originators of the Postal Service sound.  Dntel‘s first collaboration with Zooey Deschanel’s hubby, This is the Dream of Evan and Chan. 
 

What is a Biebian you ask?  Well that is a lesbian who looks like Justin Bieber of course!  This fabulous site has collected tons of Biebian photos along with a healthy batch of Justin photos as well.

 
Here’s an essential and intriguing missing piece of the Krautrock puzzle : A German man known simply as Alex (Alexander Wiska) plays Turkish pop music on his electric saz backed and produced at Inner Space studios, on his first two LPs, by most of the members of Can ! Below is an entertaining fan made clip for the song “Derule” which is a cover of a popular Turkish tune propelled by the incomparable drumming of Can’s Jaki Liebezeit.
 

 

 
Mutant Sounds: Alex Oriental Experience
 
Previously on DM : THE DANGEROUS DISKOFOLK OF DERDIYOKLAR

 
The always notable Kurt Ralske just recently blew my mind by introducing me to the work of Polish singer Ewa Demarczyk. Dealing mainly in symbolism and metaphors for freedom was a necessary tactic for her lyrics under communist rule, but one needn’t speak Polish to pick up on what is conveyed in these heavy 1966 performances.
 

 
Ewa Demarczyk-Spiewa Piosenki Zygmunta Koniecznego

 
The career of Nico, née Christa Päffgen, and what happened to her after she crossed paths with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, has certainly been well-documented (see at the bottom, Nico: Icon).  Less well-documented, though, are Nico’s “model” years, starting out in Berlin when she was all of 14.  The accompanying photos are just a few selected from the fine—and generous—set found here.
 

 
Ranging in date from ‘52-‘67, these shots certainly capture a more innocent time in Nico’s life.  I particularly like the ones below where Nico looks like she just stepped into a Godard film.  It’s somewhat incredible to think that the face in the above black-and-whites would later go on to sing this, and this, and especially this!