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Lost Someone. Cat Power’s new album Jukebox (out Jan. 22) promises to be a second, more lively, helping of retro tunes—the first being 2000’s excellent but solemn Covers Record—refashioned by Southern chanteuse Chan Marshall (above), this time with the aid of her Dirty Delta Blues band. Marshall takes the obscure James Brown boiler, “Lost Someone,” and makes it her absolute jam. The set also dips into Hank Williams’ “Ramblin’ Woman,” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son.”

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Craig Robinson sings Creep. The WGA writer’s strike may have halted production on new episodes of The Office, but you can still see lots of online clips from the show’s recent fan convention in Scranton, Penn., including this one of Craig “Darryl” Robinson going down on Radiohead’s insecurity anthem, “Creep.”

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—REBECCA BREEDEN

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—MARY HELEN CRUMPLER