Quick Hits & Clips: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Innerpartysystem, Valient Thorr, Jeff Buckley

• Check out Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros' "Desert Song," this is part one of a twelve-part feature-length movie musical. Part 1: "Desert Song" is about singer Alex Ebert's reckoning with the middle name his father secretly wrote on his birth certificate - a Native American name which means 'Devil' or 'Demon.' The opening footage is of his father chanting in Monument Valley - shot by his mother.
• Beastie Boys' seminal third LP "Check Your Head" (the one that saw them jump back to their punk roots and gave the world Money Mark and "So Watcha Want") was reissued earlier this year in a variety of fan-pleasing packages. 500 limited copies of the vinyl version contained an a capella track "BBoys In The Cut," which you can hear here, and one found its way to Reading, Pennsylvania's Innerpartysystem, who've just done an old school remix of the track.
• Valient Thorr did an interview with ShockHound about the strangest show they have ever done: "Anybody wanna go to the 'Hanging Bridge?'"
• Jeff Buckley's "Grace Around the World" came out this past Tuesday. Podcast interviews have been released about Buckley and the album. The interviews are with Moby, Duncan Sheik, Laurie Trombley (co-director of the documentary Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley), Nyla Adams (co-director of the documentary Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley), Mary Guilbert (Buckley's mother), and Buckley himself.

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