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    copycats:

    “My Girls” by Becca Stevens

    Originally by Animal Collective

    Proof that AC’s compositions aren’t reliant on electronic instrumentation. This is beautiful.

    (Source: danceyrselfclean)

  2. copycats:

    Cecilia by Local Natives
    originally by Simon and Garfunkel

  3. Mixtape: Chick Cover Songs →

    msg:

    gtmcknight posted a bunch of cover songs he was enjoying while working on the @hypem Zeitgeist the other night

    I am such a sucker for stuff like this.

  4. copycats:

    Alameda/Ballad of Big Nothing - Beck
    originally by Elliott Smith

    A few days after Elliott’s death, musicians and friends gathered together at the Henry Fonda Theater to play his music and pay tribute to him.

    For six years, there has only been audio from this show, but today some kind and wonderful soul uploaded this video of Beck’s brief set to YouTube.

    (via)

  5. More Beyonce-related goodness.