Daedelus makes love, music to write columns to.

But your SAK correspondent forgives her/them. Last night/earlier this evening (think of it how you will) Lykkes told the crowd at Le Poisson Rouge she’d offer up something “special,” and then seemingly did:

Imagine your SAK correspondent’s heartbreak when he Googled around and discovered that Lykke’s performed the very same jam before, faking out audiences by starting up Lou Reed classic “Take A Walk On The Wild Side” and then dropping some rhymes from Tribe’s “Can I Kick It?” (which sampled “Wild Side,” not coincidentally) on top. It seemed like a brilliant New York only moment (she mentioned the city a lot in her banter), given that it was a fusion of Brooklyn-born Reed’s most famous solo song with a classic from the classic Queens rappers, but it wasn’t the first time.

No video is as yet available from the earlier (and your SAK correspondent is not making this up) cover of “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” that was fused with “Dance Dance Dance.”

Your SAK Correspondent argued against “Allah Board!” but he didn’t get very far.

You SAK Correspondent thinks its a worthwhile gamble to scope out a free set from Aderbat at Pete’s Candy Store on one of this waning August’s latter Wednesdays, even if it hasn’t always worked for him in the past. 

Your SAK correspondent braved three days of All Points West last weekend and learned something about societal order in the process.

You have three more chances–including tonight.

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Again tonight.

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Your SAK correspondent took several photos of Alabama melody/punk trio P.S. Eliot at Brooklyn’s unfortunately-named Rock Star Bar on Sunday, but it was around number five that he realized a single digital capture would suffice. The three young ladies have an eyes-directed-at-the-floor sincerity that squares well with their catchy, youthful simplicity–though it results in an amateur photog grabbing the same shot over and over again.

No matter. The songs are finger snapping good, and the gals have a quite generous by donation pricing scheme for merch–all the more reason to give them some money if you catch ‘em in the next week (they’ll be making their way from Pennsylvania to Florida) and empty your wallet so they can buy fuel for the next leg of their trip home. Tour dates at MySpace.

Does it make you gay if your band covers the Ronettes during a free acoustic set at a shoe store in San Francisco on the eve of Pride Weekend? No? What if you’re wearing a pink button-down shirt? With matching pink Ray-Bans? Attire and circumstances aside, your West Coast Correspondent is starting to develop a slight musical chubby for dreamy Chris Chu and his Morning Benders.

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An Animated Look At The Sample-Soaked Population of Gillis’ Island

Pittsburgh’s Attention-Discotheque-Disordered and hipster-beloved DJ Girl Talk’s new album Feed The Animals, given a nothin’-but-’net release yesterday by record label Illegal Art, bookends its 14 tracks with sister cuts titled “Play Your Part (Pt. 1)” and “Play Your Part (Pt. 2).” And that, for as many reasons as Animals has samples, is quite a loaded twin christening.

Released with an In Rainbows-style pay-whatever-you-want deal (even $0.00 gets you a 320kb copy), the notion of “playing your part” here could shallowly be interpreted as: 1. paying something for the record; or 2. simply downloading it. But one-man show Gregg Gillis, the audio collage artist behind Girl Talk’s four sample-based LPs and sole captain of GT’s manic, user-generated live shows, is actually asking you for—and giving—much, much more.

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