VIDEO: Hooray for Earth cover Justin Timberlake's "My Love"

Mp3 of the week will not be seen today, so that we can bring you something that's more fun than compressed audio. Namely: compressed video!

There's no shortage of Justin Timberlake covers in the world, but we're partial to this reimagining of "My Love" by Boston's HOORAY FOR EARTH, who filmed this live version during a sweat-soaked late-night barbecue at Austin's South by Southwest.

Truth be told, out of all this we're most psyched about Merle Haggard coming to town in September. But feel free to register opposing views, or Ryan Adams setlists, in the comments.

Ryan Adams
At the Somerville Theatre
Friday, June 29, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $36.00
On-sale Friday, June 1, 2007 at 10:00 am

Travis

GOING:

"Throwed"
Tuesday May 29 at the Middle East, Cambridge
9 pm

Just a friendly reminder that the monthly THROWED thingamajawn is tonight, with lots of our favorite peoples: recent Boston transplant Chris Devlin (of Spank Rock fame), resident DJ E-Marce, and Cave In guitarist Adam McGrath's gargantuan metal band CLOUDS

When he's not destroying parties as half of the Certified Bananas crew, DJ P. Nice mans the decks for the Providence party-funk trio Miss Fairchild, alongside this little dude who sings like Prince and this big dude who plays the flute. Trust us, it's genius. Combining both talents, P. Nice has just dropped the preview Miss Fairchild mixtape, which spins four new tracks into the hot old-school shit by Tony Toni Tone and Morris Day.

Following track comes from the Arctic Monkeys' acoustic session for WFNX, recorded right before their Avalon show over at New Alliance studios in Central Square -- huuuuuuuge ginormous thanks to Alvan, Ethan, Nick Z, and the rest of the New Alliance dudes for hooking this shit up and doing a fucking awesome job.

Unless the pix lie, the Dresden Dolls' homage-a-David-Lee-Roth is gonna be bonkers. Check the full photo set over at Pixie Vision Productions. In other news, Amanda's playing a solo show this Sunday at the MidEast downstairs that's part of some big multimedia benefit for these people, involving Iran, rock and roll, and video installations.

DOWNLOAD: Shepherdess, "Not Gonna Be There Now" (mp3)

For reasons that aren't entirely musical, Hilken Mancini was our favorite member of Fuzzy. Chris Toppin was technically the better singer, but Hilken was the one with the squeaky voice, the messy guitar, and the skintight jumpsuits.

UNDER BYEN
July 15 downstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge
$10; on sale Friday at 10 am
617.931.2000

BLANKS 77
July 29 upstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge
$9; on sale Friday at 10 am
617.931.2000

AQUABATS
August 25 at Avalon, Boston
$15.25; on sale Friday at 10 am
617.931.2000

STEVE VAI
October 4 at the Berklee Performance Center, Boston

(Tia made the pilgrimage to the OTD compound in Pittsburgh for Mom's Day and returned with the following dispatch)

Girl Talk at Mr. Smalls: holy balls was that the single most amazing event I've ever seen in Pittsburgh. My memories of show-goers in Pittsburgh were permanently scarred back when I saw Radiohead on the OK Computer tour in '97 with Teenage Fanclub at Metropol, this place in the strip district.

Pretty stoked about the Arctic Monkeys show this weekend, would be even more stoked if it wasn't happening on Mothers' Day -- or if we didn't have baby-mamas who don't really want to hear us whine please please please let us go hang with the Guns N Roses of Britpunk. Be that as it may, stay tuned next week for the full-court press: interviews, live mpfrees, photos, and more.

DOWNLOAD: Crystal Understanding, "Power Feelings" (mp3)

We have a general rule: hippies and sequencers don't mix. But, as blog nerds have discovered via the already-web-famous track "World with No Windows," Crystal Understanding’s Aaron and Sonya have become a weird, sweet exception. The duo is aligned with the local shit-pop cabal Compound 440r, and like most C440r groups it forsakes (sez their bio) "the usual trappings of rockitude, replacing guitars and basses with handmade claves, computerized beats, and power feelings."