The Beach Boys "Do It Again" for their 50th Anniversary

Have you been living under a rock and didn't know that The Beach Boys are about to fill your longing-for-summer souls with more California surfer music from yesteryear? Well, look alive, people, because it just keeps happening!

Following up their Grammy performance and the announcement of a 50th Anniversary Tour, the band has issued a new cover of their classic hit, “Do It Again”, keeping breath baited for their upcoming shows and new studio LP. The video features all surviving original members working in the studio (hugs!), along with some sexy snippets of the Cali coast. It will certainly bring a smile to your cold, February heart!

Watch Bradford Cox Cover Leonard Cohen ( + Winter 2012 Atlas Sound Tour Dates)

We've pointed out before that Deerhunter frontman, Atlas Sound mastermind, and Future Nostalgia poster-guy Bradford Cox has a very innate love & respect for some of the music world's greatest vets. He's been known to weave the lyrics to Patti Smith's "Land Part 1 (Horses)" into live performances of Microcastle burner "Nothing Ever Happened," and as Pitchfork reports, he recently tipped his hat to Leonard Cohen with a solo acoustic performance of "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy."

The performance comprised the latest episode of Columbia Record's "Old Ideas With New Friends" Vimeo series, in which a variety of artists like Cults, Greg Dulli, and Cold War Kids have covered their favorite Cohen tracks in honor of the maestro's new album. Give it a look and listen over here, and go see Bradford as he continues to tour around his excellent new Atlas Sound release Parallax - new tour dates below.

Technically Nostalgic: Scott Weiland Covers My Favorite Radiohead Song, Ensures That I Hate Him Forever

I. Want. To. Punch. You.

I haven't been semi-rationally angry at something in the music world in awhile, so time for another installment of... Technically Nostalgic!

According to Stereogum, Scott Weiland - frontdouche of the Stone Temple Pilots - is grasping at nostalgic relevancy by releasing a digital-only compilation of cover songs done by far cooler veteran artists (with the exception of The Smiths). We're talking faaaaar cooler... like The Beatles, David Bowie, Nirvana. And Radiohead.

Guess which of those covers pisses me off the most.

It's not even that Weiland goes after the obvious choices like so many others before him, like "Creep" or "Paranoid Android." No. He goes after the ONE SONG that absolutely solidified my allegiance to Radiohead when I first heard it on huge headphones in the dark so many years ago and gave me an emotional catharsis that few other songs have achieved - "Let Down." I actually wrote about that here one time.

To be sort of fair, it's not a bad rendition if you enjoy Scott Weiland, have never heard the original, and have doused your ears in acid. But if you HAVE heard and love the original, then this will likely make you want to join me in wanting to kick Scott Weiland square in the nuts. Repeatedly.

Check it out. And then  palate cleanse with the REAL (live) version after the jump.