A couple of months ago, we posted a list of the 10 best Coldplay covers. That list is safe. New Jersey punk rock champions Titus Andronicus recently posted an intentionally ramshackle, lo-fi cover of “In My Place” on Twitter, and holy god this thing is awful. It’s awful on purpose, but it’s still awful. Al...

The Day in Pop Digest for 12/29/10

Long-ago dark-synth BTW Cold Cave’s “Life Magazine” is no stranger to the advertising realm: Around the holidays Love Comes Close’s poppiest moment ended up in a regularly aired Radio Shack spot. Now, after being remixed by handfuls of hands, it’s resurfaced in this Verizon ad.If you’ve...

We’ve been covering BTW Cold Cave’s various “Life Magazine” remixes, each with their own Max G. Morton cover art. So far the fiddlers have taken the icy, noisy synth-pop crew’s RadioShack staple in different directions, though each works with the untouched take’s Marti Domination video....

As far as visual treatments, shape-shifting BTW Cold Cave have given us Love Comes Close’s “Life Magazine” as an excellently campy video starring Marti Domination and a cheerful RadioShack holiday ad. Sonically, it rests somewhere between the two. The original was sung by ex-Xiu Xiu member Caralee McElroy, who&#...