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WTF? Is it covers week at Mission Freak? Well, after getting all giddy about Chris Perdue’s cover of Joanna Newsom’s “Emily” we thought it would only be right to unleash this other fine nugget we came across. At the end of 2007, Bay Area/NYC rock band the Blacks, dropped a cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Back [...]

I can’t lie: since living in Spain some years ago, I’ve had a tremendous affinity for all aspects of its culture. So on this wintry mix of a night in Iowa City, I feel obligated to bring you the exuberant pop of El Guincho, a single dude named Pablo Diaz-Reixa out of Barcelona (for the [...]

This week has been defined by two things for me: Randy Newman and sweet girl pop. And, in one extremely rare instance, the place where those two things collide. We usually sneak some mp3s into the bottom of our articles, but today I felt like flipping the script. So how about an occasional [...]