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 could not be prouder to have some fresh A/V content for you. Number two in our series, which is to slowly unfold like a well-paced alt-rockpera, features The Harlem Shakes (recently spotted opening some dates for Vampire Weekend down in Florida and Georgia, though that isn’t the first time), gussied up for an interview that we conducted at our loft studio (and now available on YouTube!). We’re starting with Part 2, cause, hey, that’s how we roll.

Underneath this jump down here, you can grab a vid of Le Shakes covering a fine ‘lil MGMT jam called “Kids” at Bowery Ballroom last year (it’s not SAK level video, but what is?).
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Your SAK correspondent, being a blogger and all, is somewhat obligated to be pro-Vampire Weekend. So it should be no surprise that I’m directing you to take the M79 over to MTV’s The Leak and give their self-titled debut an (encoded, uploaded, streaming) spin.

That said, what desk-dweller over at Viacom decided that the songs streamed on MTV’s site should be family friendly? (To find out what I’m talking about play “Oxford Comma” and listen for those muted swears.) Who gives a fuck about an obscene curse word? And whose ears are there left to protect (on the internet, no less)? The kids don’t stand a chance.

UPDATE: Watch the Columbia-Alum-Foursome rock before noon at Other Music.

The Ballet

Beat The Devil

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Vampire Weekend / The Harlem Shakes

Jens Lekman

Greg Burgett