Monday Mix Tapes: In Which Dirty Projectors Cover Usher & I Forget Everything Else that Happened, Ever

Chicago may have turned into a strange,wet place where it THUNDERSNOWS and then magically shoots up to 50 degrees, but whatever! I don't care, and this is why.

Dirty Projectors covered an Usher song.

Seriously, this happened, you guys, and it was AMAZING:



I think now I'm supposed to start talking about how I've listened to nothing but the new Local Natives' album, Hummingbird, all week, and how the songs "You & I" and "Ceilings" and "Three Months" and "Columbia" completely devastate me, but I really can't think straight.

The Dirty Fucking Projectors just completely killed an Usher Raymond song.

Like a Map With No Ocean

Holy shit:



I feel a little blasphemous saying this, but I'm just gonna say it. I think I might like it better than the original. Jury's still out, though.

Don't be mad, Leslie. I still love you, and this:

Monday Mix Tapes: Cover City

Apparently I'm really into covers these days. Just call me Chan, I guess.

Here's Candi Staton's take on Patsy Cline.



And since I brought up Chan Marshall, Queen of Covers:



Happy Monday.