Saturday, February 03, 2007

M Ward covers Bowie

On March 13, KCRW and Starbucks Entertainment will co-release Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project at select Starbucks locations (Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Boston, and Washington, D.C.) and online.

The collection features an M Ward cover of the David Bowie classic "Let's Dance" performed live in the KCRW studio as well as covers by the Flaming Lips (doing Radiohead's "Knives Out"), R.E.M. (John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind", Rufus Wainwright and Chris Stills (Neil Young's "Harvest"), Paul Weller (Rose Royce's "Wishing on a Star"), Damien Rice (Radiohead's "Creep") and others.

Proceeds from album sales will assist the station in digitizing its huge (60,000+ albums) music library.

(from Pitchfork)

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