Hooray Friday!

Trying to get ready for vacation, so here's a few for you down-and-dirty style:

- The Boss in concert circa 1974 courtesy of Aquarium Drunkard.

- The Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O has a side project Native Korean Rock. Thanks to Ultra 8201.

- The previously mentioned Zach de la Rocha and Jon Theodore project One Day As a Lion has their first track up on their MySpace page. Thanks to Metro D.

- Have a listen to "Born to Be Your Man," the first single from Birdmonster's new album From the Mountain to the Sea (available for download Aug 5th ) on Ryan's Smashing Life.

Catching up rapid-fire style

- New Pete Yorn track with Mexican band Kinky thanks to I am fuel.

- Same blog, different band. The Kooks cover Peter Bjorn & John's "Young Folks".

- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks performs three songs in studio for Minnesota Public Radio. You betcha!

- Death Cab for Cutie's new single "I Will Possess Your Heart" from their upcoming album Narrow Stairs out May 13th courtesy of Ultra 8201.

- Cat Power's Black Session tracks from French radio's France Inter are available on Aquarium Drunkard. Just make sure you don't listen to these under a ladder.

- Peter Moren's (from Peter Bjorn & John fame) solo effort The Last Tycoon is out April 8th and the first single "Social Competence" is available for your ears on Let's Sexy Fighting.

- New Birdmonster track "I Might Have Guessed" had it's coming out party at SXSW. Thanks to the Music Slut.

- More from SXSW. Jim James and M. Ward give us a little acoustic love and Aquarium Drunkard has it zipped up nice and neat like.

- Muse's HAARP DVD/CD is out April 1 and will be screened in a handful of cities. Ultra 8201 has the dates.

- R.E.M. covers the Editors for BBC's Radio 1. Thanks to You Ain't No Picasso for the video.