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Coconut & the Duke's new club

Ted Waldbillig |

Anything Beck can do, we can do better.

One half of the local duo Coconut & the Duke has a cool new club called Cover of the Month. Good news: it’s not one of those ‘come in a suit or with women’ exclusives. Anybody with an internet connection can hear a cover on the first Tuesday every month. August’s is an Eddie Money tune called “Two Tickets to Paradise.” It’s like an endless mowed lawn version, smelling nice and easy to get caught in.

For the sake of solid editorial content, this is for the record: It’s a great cover. Coconut takes the mandolin and the bass for a walk with the Duke, whom syncopates a guitar jazzy as the video. In the usual, fitting Coconut & the Duke fashion, the vid is a nutty collection of coffee-making and other nonsense with bizarre editing. Pay no attention to the transitions or vacuum cleaning, but definitely take one of those tickets.