Thank you for your support of the Mink Car Cover project! This week we were able to write a check for $5,161 to the FDNY Foundation.

You can still purchase the Mink Car Cover album here.

Sometimes the best response to a big bad world is to make art. Sometimes it’s the only response, actually.

Read Marian Call’s full post here.

Then listen her Mink Car Cover track, Hovering Sombrero.

Blue from Hello, The Future! tells the story of how Mink Car Cover was created. Listen and then order Mink Car Cover!

Jonathan Mann, also known as the Song A Day Guy, talks Mink Car Cover and shares a song he wrote about the iPhone 4. Get to know Jonathan and then pre-order Mink Car Cover!

Full album releases August 23.

Marian Call recently performed a concert at Thinkgeek HQ; check out what she has to say about Mink Car Cover and then pre-order the album!

Full album releases August 23.

The Doubleclicks, also known as sisters Angela and Aubrey Webber, play the kind of music that comes naturally to people with a cello, guitar, and too much time on the internet.

Listen to them talk about Mink Car Cover, and then pre-order the album!

The full album releases August 23.

To mark the ten-year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, and to raise money to support and train New York’s essential emergency personnel, we are going to release a full cover of the Mink Car album.

All proceeds from Mink Car Cover will go to the FDNY Foundation, the official not-for-profit foundation of the Fire Department of New York, established to promote Fire Safety in New York City and the professional development, training, and education of members of the FDNY.

For more information about the FDNY Foundation, please visit www.fdnyfoundation.org.

Here’s a short video which introduces both the project and the artists who will be working together to create a full cover of They Might Be Giants’ album Mink Car for the benefit of the FDNY Foundation.

Click to watch!

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