Here are audio clips of some favorite performances. For videos, go here.
Tom Waits, “Goin’ Out West”
PJ Harvey, “Down by the Water”
Tracy Chapman, “Change”
Various Artists, “Yeah, Yeah, No, No, No”
From Clubbo, the massive “music fiction” project (AKA “hoax”) I created
with Elise Malmberg,and a perfect example of how megalomaniacal the
project became. We started with a pretty pop song alleging to be from 1965
(we were only lying by 40-some years). Then we documented its death via
ever-worse cover versions: Wimpy ’70s singer/songwriter. Obnoxious ’80s
dance pop. Putrid TV commercial. This is just one of the dozens of bogus
stories we created. More here.
DJ Shadow, “Broken Levee Blues”
Eels, “Rock Hard Times”
Tom Waits, “Black Wings”
Lisa Germano, “Tomorrowing”
Tracy Chapman, “I Am Yours”
Stephen Yerkey, “Maker’s Mark”
PJ Harvey, “Meet Ze Monsta”
Tracy Chapman, “Don’t Dwell”
Oranj Symphonette, “A Shot in the Dark”
John Cale, “Set Me Free”
Eels, “Numbered Days”
Erica Garcia, “Hace Mucho Tiempo”
Tracy Chapman, “Sing For You”
Mental 99, “Mr. Reno”
Recorded live with no overdubs. (Thank you, looping pedal!)
Joe Gore, “Midnight Cowboy”
Julieta Venegas, “Seria Feliz”
Tom Waits, “Hold On”
Eels, “Agony”
Oranj Symphonette, “Experiment in Terror”
Lisa Germano, “Reptile”
Tracy Chapman, “Goodbye”
The Lazarus Project, “We’ve Only Just Resumed”
From another Clubbo hoax about a computer program that
reanimates deceased singers. Karen Carpenter, for one.
Erica Garcia, “Yo No Tengo la Culpa”
Mental 99, “Rhiannon”
Live looping with drummer Dawn Richardson, no overdubs.
Kimya Dawson, “Fire”
Tracy Chapman, “Another Sun”
Lisa Germano, “If I Think of Love”
Tom Waits, “Bottom of the World”