… it is with a joyous heart that I share with you a free compilation of new recordings where EVERY band on the list did their version of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Some of these are bands you might know quite well: Stab City, Geoff Geis, Treasure Mammal. And some will be completely new to you. Some may exist only for this collection!

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WHO: Nikol Hasler, creator of THE MIDWEST TEEN SEX SHOW, author of SEX: A BOOK FOR TEENS, LA Record writer and all around genius/ sexpot.

WHAT: A fundraiser to help Nikol pay for expensive cancer treatments

HOW: We are asking for donations, many of which come with prizes—some big, some small, some cultural, some fashionable… and some sexy. See below! There’s lots of great stuff, and you can donate twice and get two things! After sending money via PayPal or credit card, send an email to haslerhelper@gmail.com to claim your prize.

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Our man Geoff from Pizza! and Big Whup now has a second solo release, this time an EP of cover songs! There’s everything from Mariah Carey to Michael Stipe on here (oh, and a cameo with Michael Nhat), so download it before he gets famous and Warner Brothers makes him remove the link!

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Not only does this thing have TWO Michael Nhat collaborations, one of which with So Many Wizards, but it also has a response from Geis himself to Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy,” perhaps the best evocation of that song since Beavis and Butthead watched Death’s “The Philosopher.”

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Geis also manages to transform a political commentary on Saddam Hussein’s career as a dictator into a catchy party jam. His ability to inspire dancing to a chorus line of “and they won’t count the bodies” in reference to Hussein’s genocidal massacre of the Kurds is hilariously ingenious.

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This video from Pizza!’s Bogus Rimshots from the Fourth makes me fall in love with the album all over again. And it makes me wonder what my housemates get up to when I pass out in front of the TV with a beer in my hands…

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Cry a little more at the sadness of death-bed boob pillows.

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