Ball Park Music (Brisbane, Australia)
01 IFLY
Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs
(Amazon Import )
similar to: Pavement

Hungry Kids of Hungary (Brisbane, Australia)
02 Scattered Diamonds
03 Coming Around
Escapades
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Vampire Weekend , Generationals

Architecture in Helsinki (Melbourne, Australia)
04 Escapee
Moment Bends
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Cut Copy (Melbourne, Australia)
05 Take Me Over
Zonoscope
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Ben Browning

Deep Sea Arcade (Sydney, Australia)
06 The Devil Won't Take You
07 Lonely in Your Arms
Outlands
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Generationals

Princess Chelsea (Auckland, New Zealand)
08 Machines of Loving Grace
09 The Cigarette Duet
Lil' Golden Book
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: The Brunettes

Cut Off Your Hands (Auckland, New Zealand)
10 Fooling No One
11 You Should Do Better
Hollow
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

The Eversons (Wellington, New Zealand)
12 I'm a Conservative
13 Creepy
The Eversons EP
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Art Brut

Two Cartoons (Dunedin, New Zealand)
14 Better Coast
Jelly Tip Lips EP
(iTunes )
Check out the music video for this song that my friend is in

Also On This Episode

This episode features a few clips from the wonderful HBO TV show Flight of the Conchords , as well as a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he discusses the fall of Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch (watch the whole clip here ).

Alexander (Los Angeles, LA)
01 Bad Bad Love
Alexander
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Los Angeles, LA)
02 That's What's Up
That's What's Up Single
(iTunes )
similar to: Of Monsters and Men

Of Monsters and Men (Reykjavík, Iceland)
03 Six Weeks
04 Little Talks
My Head Is An Animal
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

La Sera (Los Angeles, LA)
05 Love That's Gone
06 Please Be My Third Eye
07 Real Boy
Sees the Light
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Vivian Girls , She & Him , The Hong Kong

Hospitality (Brooklyn, NYC)
08 Eight Avenue
09 All Day Today
Hospitality
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Thao , Lightning Love

Elephant (London, UK)
10 Assembly
Assembly EP
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Blouse

Also On This Episode

On this episode I talked over a cover of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros song "Home" by YouTube pianist indierocks87 which you can watch the video for here . As well as "Gaia" by The Bees (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon ) and "The Happy Organ" by Dave "Baby" Cortez (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon ).

Gotye (Australia)
01 Somebody That I Used to Know
Making Mirrors
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: The Police

The Magnetic Fields (LA and NYC)
02 Andrew in Drag
03 God Wants Us to Wait
04 Quick!
Love at the Bottom of the Sea
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: The 6ths

The Shins (Portland, OR)
04 No Way Down
05 Bait and Switch
Port of Morrow
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Broken Bells

Islands (Montreal, Canada)
06 Comes to Light (Bonus)
07 Can't Feel My Face
A Sleep & A Forgetting (Deluxe Edition)
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: The Unicorns

Soko (LA via Paris)
08 First Love Never Die
09 How are You
I Thought I was an Alien
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Kimya Dawson

Andrew Bird (Chicago, IL)
10 Give it Away
11 Near Death Experience Experience
Break it Yourself
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: M. Ward

Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
12 Trinity
Orion
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Blouse , Air

Also On This Episode

This episode features a clip of "New Rules " from HOB 's Real Time with Bill Maher about the insanity of America's super-stupid gun laws. Watch the whole thing here .

Keren Ann (Paris & NYC)
01 My Name is Trouble
101
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Dawn Landes

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (Detroit, MI)
02 Vocal Chords
03 God Only Knows
Horse Power EP
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Givers , Generationals

Summer Camp (England)
04 Why Don't You Stay?
05 Veronica Sawyer
Young EP
(iTunes )
similar to: Tennis , Class Actress

Razika (Bergen, Norway)
06 Youth
07 Middelalder
Program 91
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Club 8

Blouse (Portland, OR)
08 Time Travel
09 They Always Fly Away
Blouse
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Chairlift , Summer Camp

Doug Hoyer (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
10 Call at the Moon
11 Lakes of Mars
Walks with the Tender and Growing Night
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Jens Lekman

Mechanical Bride (Brighton, England, UK)
12 Young Gold (You Stole My Heart)
Living with Ants
(iTunes, Amazon )
similar to: Hannah Peel

Also On This Episode

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher 's New Rules where he repurposes his recent Op-Ed from the New York Times urging people to stop apologizing . Also, I talked over music from the Dickon Hinchliffe score to one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while, the film Project Nim .

Battles (Brooklyn, NYC) feat. Matias Aguayo (Buenos Aires & Paris)
01 Ice Cream
Gloss Drop
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Air (France)
02 Parade
Parade Single
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Tennis (Denver, CO)
03 Origins
04 Dreaming
Young and Old
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Club 8 (Stockholm, Sweden)
05 Western Hospitality
06 Isn't That Great?
The People's Record
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to: Afropop Guitars

Chairlift (Brooklyn, NYC)
07 Amanaemonesia
Something
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Youth Lagoon (Seattle, WA)
08 Afternoon
09 Daydream
The Year of Hibernation
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Perfume Genius (Seattle, WA)
10 Hood
11 Floating Spit
Put Your Back N 2 It
(iTunes , Amazon MP3)
similar: Sefjan Stevens

ROSTAM (NYC)
12 Don't Let It Get to You
Don't Let It Get to You Single
(iTunes )
similar: Vampire Weekend

Air (France)
13 Moon Fever
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar to early: DJ Shadow or Fatboy Slim

Also On This Episode

This episode features a clip from a BBC segment about the making of Air's Le Voyage Dans La Lune album , as well as a clip from Comedy Central 's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he comments on the results of last week's Michigan GOP Primary .

The Shins (Portland, OR)
01 Simple Song
Simple Song Single
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Widowspeak (Brooklyn, NYC)
02 Fir Coat
Widowspeak
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
not this song, but the album is reminded me of: Mazzy Star

Widowspeak (Brooklyn, NYC)
03 Wicked Game
Gun Shy EP
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
cover of: Chris Isaak

Mazzy Star (Santa Monica, CA)
04 Common Burn
Common Burn Single
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

Sad Day for Puppets (Stockholm, Sweden)
05 Anne Says
Just Like a Ghost EP
(iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Belly or The History of Apple Pie

The History of Apple Pie (London, UK)
06 You're So Cool
You're So Cool EP
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Sad Day for Puppets

Spector (London, UK)
07 What You Wanted
What You Wanted Single
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pete & The Pirates

This Many Boyfriends (Leeds, UK)
08 Young Lovers Go Pop!
Young Lovers Go Pop! EP
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
little bit like the: The Vaccines

Jose Gonzalez (Gothenburg, Sweden) & Yo La Tengo (Hoboken, NJ)
09 Hand On Your Heart
10 You Make Me Feel Good
Sweetheart
(iTunes )
covers of: Kylie Minogue and The Zombies

Dirty Beaches (Vancouver, Canada)
11 Lord Knows Best
Badlands
(iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Frank LoCrasto meets The Magnetic Fields in a dark basement

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the series premier of Bill Moyers ' new show Moyers & Company on PBS . The clips deal with income inequality in America (watch) and feature an interview with Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson about their new book Winner-Take-All Politics , as well as clips of amazing senate testimony by Amanda Greubel (watch ).

THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 8! THE NEXT NEW EPISODE WILL BE IN 2012... SOMETIME!

1

Sharon Van Etten (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Mike McDermott"
Serpent Single (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Lower Dens

2

3

4

Lightning Love (Ypsilanti, MI)
"Work Today", "Everyone I Know", and "I Think We're Alright"
November Birthday (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

5

6

The Bats (Christchurch, New Zealand)
"Free All the Monsters" and "Getting Over You"
Free All the Monsters (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Ladybug Transistor

7

8

Violens (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Are You Still in the Illusion?" and "Violent Sensation Descends"
Amoral (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Lilys

9

Pyyramids (Los Angeles, CA)
"That Ain't Right"
Human Beings Single (iTunes , Amazon MP3 , bandcamp )
they are: Ok Go 's Tim Nordwind and singer Drea Smith

10

The Vaccines (London, England, UK)
"Tuck and Roll"
Tiger Blood (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Ramones

11

12

Shonen Knife (Osaka, Japan)
"Sheena is a Punk Rocker" and "Blitzkrieg Bop"
Osaka Ramones: Tribute to The Ramones (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
covers of: The Ramones

13

Symphony of Science (Bellingham, WA)
"Onward to the Edge" (watch the video )
Symphony of Science Bundle v1.2 (bandcamp )
samples: Neil Degrasse Tyson My Favorite Universe

14

Tim Minchin (London, UK)
"Thank You God" (read the lyrics while you listen!)
Tim Minchin and The Heritage Orchestra Live at Manchester Arena (eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Onion 's Today Now! about Applebee's new ad campaign (watch ), and a video of Christopher Hitchens (watch ).

1

Surfer Blood (West Palm Beach, FL)
"I'm Not Ready"
Tarot Classics EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Smith Westerns , Girls

2

3

Crystal Stilts (NYC)
"Dark Eyes" and "Radiant Door"
Radiant Door EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Crocodiles , Joy Division

4

5

M83 (Antibes, France)
"Midnight City" and "Splendor"
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Washed Out

6

7

Javelin (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Cowpoke" and "Estevez"
Canyon Candy (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Blackbird Blackbird , Atlas Sound

8

9

Atlas Sound (Athens, GA)
"Te Amo" and "Lightsworks"
Parallax (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Javelin , Blackbird Blackbird

10

Tennis (Denver, CO)
"Origins"
Origins Single (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Twin Sister , Best Coast

11

Tennis (Denver, CO)
"Tell Her No"
Tell Her No Single (free download )
cover of: The Zombies

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Javelin 's Kickstarter video pitch where they were trying to raise the funds to make their "Canyon Candy" album into a movie. The project was successfully funded, but from what I've seen of the movie, it's underwhelming.

SPECIAL "8th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC" EPISODE.

1

Lightning Love (Ypsilanti, MI)
"A Town of Glass"
Suburban Sprawl Holiday Sampler 2010 (free download )

2

3

Lightning Love (Ypsilanti, MI) and Will Yates (Ferndale, MI)
"Winter Once Again" and "The Snowpocalypse"
Suburban Sprawl Holiday Sampler 2009 (free download )

4

5

She & Him (Portland, OR)
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" & "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
A Very She & Him Christmas (iTunes , Amazon )

6

Alp (Sweden/UK)
"Just Like Christmas"
Just Like Christmas EP (free download )
cover of: Low

7

Pet Shop Boys (London, UK)
"All Over the World"
Christmas (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

8

9

Apple Orchard (Richmond, CA) and Scattered Pearls (San Jose, CA)
"One Christmas Catalogue" and "Christmas is All Around"
Holly, Ivy and Mistletunes (free download )

10

11

The Business and Bad Manners (London, UK)
"Step Into Christmas" and "Christmas Time Again"
Nevermind Christmas, Here's the Bollocks! (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
"Step Into Christmas" is a cover of: Elton John

12

Allo Darlin' (London, UK)
"Wannadies Christmas"
Merry Christmas from Allo Darlin' EP (bandcamp )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from the season finale of Real Time with Bill Maher where his new rule tries to remind right-wingers that Scrooge was supposed to be the bad guy (watch it ).

1

Class Actress (NYC)
"Weekend"
Rapprocher (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
previously known as: Elizabeth Harper

2

Dappled Cities (Sydney, Australia)
"Don't Stop There"
Zounds (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Interpol

3

Dappled Cities (Sydney, Australia)
"Vision Bell"
Granddance (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Brunettes

4

5

Real Estate (Ridgewood, NJ)
"Easy" and "Green Aisles"
Days (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

6

The Babies (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Here Comes Trouble"
Album (iTunes )
similar: Real Estate

7

8

Coldplay (London, UK)
"Hurts Like Heaven" and "Paradise"
Mylo Xyloto (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

9

10

11

Laura Veirs (Portland, OR)
"Little Lap-Dog Lullaby", "Jump Down Spin Around", and "Prairie Lullaby"
Tumble Bee (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

I talked over "What'd I Say" and "Your Last Goodbye" (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon ) by Floyd Cramer , as well as "Kinder Blumen" from Days (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) by Real Estate .

Special "WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN" episode.

1

OK Go (Chicago, IL)
"The Muppet Show Theme"
The Green Album (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
cover of: The Muppets

2

3

She & Him (Portland, OR) and Jon Brion & Fiona Apple (LA, CA)
"Oh Boy!" and "Everyday"
Rave On Buddy Holly (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
covers of: Buddy Holly

4

The Ruby Suns (Auckland, NZ)
"Kenya Dig It?"
Still Smiling: A Tribute to the Genius of Brian Wilson (free download )
inspired by: Brian Wilson

5

6

7

Danger Mouse (UK) & Daniele Luppi (Italy) & Norah Jones (NYC)
"Problem Queen", "The World (Interlude)", and "Black"
Rome (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Ennio Morricone

8

Seth MacFarlane (Los Angeles, CA)
"The Night They Invented Champagne"
Music is Better Than Words (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

9

Nellie McKay (NYC)
"Wild Romantic Blues"
Boardwalk Empire Vol. 1 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

10

Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra (NYC)
"Coquette"
Blue River (you'll have to buy it at a live show it seems )
similar: Squirrel Nut Zippers

11

12

13

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Marty Beller Mask", "Now I Know", and "Mr. Me (feat. the Other Thing)"
Album Raises New and Troubling Questions (buy online )

14

Belle & Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
"I Didn't See it Coming (Richard X Remix)"
Come On Sister 12" (YouTube )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher where he says the 99% movement could be caused by a "College Bubble", and from This American Life with Malcolm Gladwell telling a story about working at The Washington Post .

1

Stevie Jackson (Glasgow, Scotland)
"Dead Man's Fall"
(I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson (iTunes )
similar: Belle & Sebastian

2

3

Foster the People (Los Angeles, CA)
"Pumped Up Kicks" and "Waste"
Torches (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: MGMT

4

5

A Hawk and a Hacksaw (Albuquerque, NM)
"Mana Thelo Enan Andra" and "Espanola Kolo"
Cervantine (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beirut

6

Neutral Milk Hotel (Athens, GA)
"You've Passed"
Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set (pre-order )

7

Neutral Milk Hotel (Athens, GA)
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

8

9

Ben Folds (Winston-Salem, NC)
"Landed (strings version)" and "Such Great Heights"
The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
cover of: The Postal Service

10

Cat Stevens (London, England, UK)
"Tea for the Tillerman"
Tea for the Tillerman (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

11

The Beatles (Liverpool, England, UK)
"Lovely Rita"
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (iTunes )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the EPK Video Ben Folds made for The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective (watch ). As well as the audio from the Steve Jobs narration version of the original Apple Think Different ad (watch ) and the 2007 Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs where he showed the world the iPhone for the first time, and changed everything yet again.

Special "Music from Adam Curtis Documentaries" episode.

1

Pizzicato Five (Hokkaidō, Japan)
"Baby Love Child"
Made in U.S.A. (Amazon )
opening of: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

2

Clinic (Liverpool, UK)
"Monkey on Your Back"
Monkey on Your Back EP (iTunes )
used in: It Felt Like a Kiss

3

The Velvet Underground (NYC)
"I'll Be Your Mirror" (short version)
Velvet Underground & Nico (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
used in: It Felt Like a Kiss

4

Fats Domino (New Orleans, LA)
"Let the Four Winds Blow"
Best of Fats Domino (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
used in: It Felt Like a Kiss

5

Doris Troy (Bronx, NYC)
"Just One Look"
Best of Doris Troy (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
used in: It Felt Like a Kiss

6

The Exciters (NYC)
"Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (original version)
Best of The Exciters (eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
used in: It Felt Like a Kiss

7

New Order (Salford, UK)
"Age of Consent"
Power, Corruption and Lies (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
used in: The Trap

8

Georges Delerue (France)
"Le mépris: Camille"
Le mépris Soundtrack (iTunes )
opening of: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

9

Jean Sablon (Paris, France)
"Le Fiacre"
Best of Jean Sablon (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
used in: It Felt Like a Kiss

10

The Kills (UK)
"Monkey 23"
Keep On Your Mean Side (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
opening of: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

11

Donovan (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
"Colours" (1968 longer version)
Greatest Hits and More
used in: The Power of Nightmares

12

Yo La Tengo (Hoboken, NJ)
"Nowhere Near"
Painful (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
used in: The Trap

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from three Adam Curtis documentaries:The Mayfair Set , The Trap , and The Century of the Self . You can search youtube.com for these films and basically watch all of them, even if some of them are cut up into segments.

1

Twin Sister (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Bad Street"
Bad Street Single (iTunes )
similar: Computer Magic

2

3

The Drums (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Money" and "Days"
Portamento (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Elkland , the 80's

4

5

Austra (Toronto, Canada) and Frankie Rose (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Alone, Together" and "Soma"
STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It (free download )
covers of: The Strokes

6

7

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (Portland, OR)
"Tigers" and "No One Is (As I Are Be)"
Mirror Traffic (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pavement

8

Georgie Fame (UK)
"Peaceful"
The Best of Georgie Fame 1967 - 1971 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

9

Sharon Van Etten (Brooklyn, NYC)
"One Day"
Epic (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Lower Dens

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clips from an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brian from May 3rd, 2007 featuring Patton Oswalt talking about hipster t-shirts.

Special "female singers from the 90's" episode.

1

Echobelly (UK)
"Insomniac"
Everyone's Got One (Amazon )

2

Belly (Boston, MA)
"Feed the Tree"
Star (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
members of: Throwing Muses and The Breeders

3

Ivy (NYC)
"This is the Day"
Apartment Life (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

4

Jennifer Trynin (Boston, MA)
"Better Than Nothing"
Cockamamie (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

5

Juliana Hatfield Three (Wiscasset, ME)
"Spin the Bottle"
Become What You Are (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

6

The Cardigans (Jönköping, Sweden)
"Carnival"
Life (iTunes , Amazon )

7

Saint Etienne (Croydon, UK)
"Woodcabin"
Good Humor (Amazon )

8

Sneaker Pimps (Hartlepool, UK)
"6 Underground (The Perfecto Mix)"
Becoming Remixed (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Garbage

9

Vanessa Paradis (Paris, France)
"Walk on the Wild Side"
Variations sur le meme t'aime (Amazon )
cover of: Lou Reed

10

Bettie Serveert (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
"Something So Wild"
Lamprey (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip of a young Steve Jobs explaining that he thinks computers are like bicycles for our minds. I love Macs and love bikes, so naturally this is a favorite clip of mine. Watch the video here .

1

AM & Shawn Lee (Los Angeles, CA)
"Dark into Light"
Dark into Light EP (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
similar: The Rosebuds

2

3

Fool's Gold (Los Angeles, CA)
"The Dive" and "Leave No Trace"
Leave No Trace (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
similar: Thomas Mapfumo

4

Phantogram (Saratoga Springs, NY)
"Mouthful of Diamonds"
Eyelid Movies (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
similar: School of Seven Bells

5

The Morning Benders (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Lovefool"
The Bedroom Covers (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
cover of: The Cardigans

6

7

Code Pie (Montréal, Canada)
"Operator" and "North Side City View"
Love Meets Rage (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
similar to something, not sure.

8

9

Oh No Oh My (Austin, TX)
"Walking Into Me" and "There Will Be Bones"
People Problems (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
similar: The Boy Least Likely To , Bishop Allen

10

Perfume Genius (Seattle, WA)
"Mr. Peterson"
Learning (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
similar: Owen Pallett , Sufjan Stevens

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from Louis CK 's FX series Louie where he talks about how he is incapable of living a less than perfect life. My job required me to spend the last couple of weeks under very different circumstances than I am used to, and I felt how he describes in this clip.

1

Jens Lekman (Gothenburg, Sweden)
"An Argument with Myself"
An Argument with Myself Pre-Release Single (free download )
similar: Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele

2

3

Beirut (NYC)
"Santa Fe" and "The Rip Tide"
The Rip Tide (iTunes )
similar: Andrew Bird , DeVotchKa

4

Casiokids (Bergen, Norway)
"Det haster!"
Det haster! Pre-Release Single (free download )
similar: FM Belfast

5

6

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"The Golden Age" and "Lady Jesus"
Fruit (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
kinda similar: Lykke Li

7

8

The Autumn Stones (Toronto, Canada)
"Under My Spell" and "Sweet as Cake"
Companions of the Flame (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
not that similar to, but kinda like: The National

9

Air Review (Dallas, TX)
"America's Son"
America's Son Single (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
this song is kinda similar: Sufjan Stevens

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from Louis CK 's FX series Louie where he explains to his 5 year old daughter during a road trip that the world is to amazing for her to be bored. It's from the season two episode called Country Drive .

1

Thomas Mapfumo (Oregon, Zimbabwe)
"Ndangariro"
Exile (Amazon pre-order )
similar: Hallelujah Chicken Run Band

2

3

Symphony of Science (Washington)
"Children of Africa (The Story of Us)" and "The Big Beginning"
Symphony of Science Bundle (free download )
samples: The BBC's The Incredible Human Journey , watch 'em all!

4
5

Teddybears (Sweden) feat. Flaming Lips (OK) and Rigo (Sweden)
"Chrystal Meth Christian" and "Tek it Down"
Devil's Music (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Fatboy Slim

6

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Protagonist"
Join Us (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
subscribe to their great podcast!

7
8

Cibo Matto (NYC)
"Flowers" and "Working for Vacation"
Stereo Type A (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pizzicato Five

9
10

Blondie (NYC) feat. Zach Condon of Beirut (NYC)
"Girlie Girlie" and "A Sunday Smile"
Panic of Girls (Amazon Import )
similar: "Bad Boys" (The "Cops" Theme) by Inner Circle

11

Real Estate (Brooklyn, NYC via New Jersey)
"It's Real"
Days (pre-release) (free download )
similar: Beach Fossils

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Carl Sagan 's Cosmos , Stephen Hawking from this video , Carolyn Porco from this video , Alice Roberts from The Incredible Human Journey episode 3 , this ABC News video about Ted Haggard , and a clip about young celebrity pre-written obituaries from NPR 's On the Media , listen to the whole thing here .

1

Washed Out (Perry, GA)
"Eyes Be Closed"
Eyes Be Closed EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Jesus and Mary Chain

2

3

Hello Seahorse! (Mexico City, Mexico)
"Un Año Quebrado" and "Lejos, No Tan Lejos"
Lejos, No Tan Lejos (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: My LIttle Airport

4

5

Daft Punk (Paris, France)
"End of Line" and "Derezzed"
Tron Legacy Soundtrack (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Apparat Organ Quartet

6

7

I'm from Barcelona (Swden)
"Charlie Parker" and "Always Spring"
Forever Today (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Irene , Suburban Kids with Biblical Names

8

Atlas Sound (Athens, GA) feat. Noah Lennox (NYC)
"Walkabout"
Logos (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Beach Boys

9

The Explorers Club (Charleston, SC)
"Forever"
Freedom Wind (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
even more similar to: The Beach Boys

10

Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
"(Just Like) Starting Over"
(Just Like) Starting Over Single (free download )
cover of: John Lennon

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher where he compares GOP voters (who are not part of the richest 1%) out as being just as inexcusable as Florida jury members who found Casey Anthony not guilty. Watch the whole thing here .

1

The Radio Dept. (Lund, Sweden)
"Never Follow Suit" (Pistol Disco Dub)
Never Follow Suit EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Crocodiles

2

3

Givers (Lafayette, LA)
"Ceiling of Plankton" and "Saw You First"
In Light (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Vampire Weekend

4

5

Bodies of Water (Los Angeles, CA)
"Triplets" and "Mary, Don't You Weep"
Twist Again (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Freelance Whales

6

7

Harlem (Austin, TX)
"Be Your Baby" and "Gay Human Bones"
Hippies (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Smith Westerns

8

9

FM Belfast (Reykjavík, Iceland)
"I Don't Want to Go to Sleep Either" and "Happy Winter"
Don't Want to Sleep (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Casiokids , Passion Pit

10

Apparat Organ Quartet (Reykjavík, Iceland)
"Konami"
Konami Single (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear about the names of various boxers.

1

The Rosebuds (Raleigh, NC)
"Go Ahead"
Loud Planes Fly Low (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Love Language

2

Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
"The End of Time"
Spectronic EP (free download )
watch the new music video on vimeo.com

3

Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Running"
Electronic Fences EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon , free download )
similar: Twin Sister meets Air

4

5

Evripidis and His Tragedies (Barcelona, Spain via Athens, GA)
"Abroad" and "Ru Ru I'd Love To…"
Evripidis and His Tragedies (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Ice Cream Socialists

6

7

Cults (NYC)
"Go Outside" and "Oh My God"
Cults (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Brunettes but rougher

8

9

Neil Diamond (Los Angeles, CA)
"Cherry Cherry" and "I'm a Believer"
The Bang Years 1966-1968 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
wrote many songs for: The Monkees

10

11

Fats Domino (New Orleans, LA)
"Lady Madonna" and "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)"
Sweet Patootie: Complete Reprise Recordings (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
covers of: The Beatles

12

Young Galaxy (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Dreams"
Invisible Republic (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Stars , New Pornographers

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from HBO 's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe ) where he talks about howRepublican's whole thing seems to be doubling-down on shit that doesn't work.

1

Lower Dens (Baltimore, MD)
"Batman"
Batman EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
this song has a little Aimee Mann sound to it

2

Walking Sleep (Los Angeles, CA)
"She's Been Lying"
TARP Sessions 1 EP (free download )
similar: The Zombies , Ideal Free Distribution

3

Walking Sleep (Los Angeles, CA)
"Without Me"
TARP Sessions 3 EP (free download )
similar: The Zombies , Ideal Free Distribution

4

5

The Specific Heats (NYC)
"Hockey Fight Song (a.k.a. Punky Surfy)" and "Old News"
"Cursed!" (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

6

7

Shugo Tokumaru (Japan)
"Lahaha" and "Malerina"
Port Entropy (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

8

The Decemberists (Portland, OR)
"Rox in the Box"
The King Is Dead (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

9

The Decemberists (Portland, OR)
"Cuyahoga"
Live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (free download )
cover of: R.E.M.

10

R.E.M. (Athens, GA)
"Fall On Me"
Life's Rich Pageant (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

11

Tiny Fireflies (Chicago, IL)
"Don't Wait Until I Fall Asleep"
Between Two Waves Vol. C (free download )

12

Tiny Fireflies (Chicago, IL)
"The End of the World"
ePop005 EP (free download )

1

Dengue Fever (Los Angeles, CA)
"Cannibal Courtship"
Cannibal Courtship (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Budos Band

2

3

Peter Bjorn & John (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Dig a Little Deeper" and "Second Chance"
Gimme Some (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Shout Out Louds

4

5

Wild Nothing (Blacksburg, VA)
"Chinatown" and "O Lilac"
Gemini (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beach Fossils , Real Estate

6

7

Noah and the Whale (London, England, UK)
"L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N." and "Tonight is the Kind of Night"
Last Night On Earth (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Laura Marling , Mumford & Sons , Tom Petty

8

9

Tennis (Denver, CO)
"Baltimore" and "Marathon"
Cape Dory (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Best Coast

10

Laura Cantrell (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Kitty Wells Dresses"
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music (free download )
did an awesome duet with: Ballboy

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode didn't contain any sound clips, but if it had, it probably would have been Bill Maher 's New Rule about Christians not being allowed to call themselves that while celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, and condoning torture. Watch it here .

1

The Raveonettes (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"Forget That You're Young"
Raven in the Grave (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Dum Dum Girls

2

3

The Vaccines (London, England, UK)
"Norgaard" and "If You Wanna"
What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? (iTunes UK , Amazon UK )
similar: The Ramones

4

5

Crystal Stilts (NYC)
"Sycamore Tree" and "Shake the Shackles"
In Love with Oblivion (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Joy Division

6

7

Frank LoCrasto (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Simple Times" and "Marshall"
El Dorado (iTunes , Band Camp )
similar, maybe, to Sven Libaek ?

8

9

Hannah Peel (London, England, UK)
"Song for the Sea" and "Don't Kiss the Broken One"
The Broken Wave (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Sea of Bees

10

The National (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Exile Vilify"
Exile Vilify Single from the Game Portal 2 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , Editors

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features heavily edited clips from the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner with Seth Meyers , and his roast of The 2012 Republican field, and President Obama. Watch the whole thing here . Also recommended: Obama's turn .

1

Reading Rainbow (Philadelphia, PA)
"Wasting Time"
Prism Eyes (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Big Troubles

2

3

The Generationals (New Orleans, LA)
"Ten-Twenty-Ten" and "I Promise"
Actor-Caster (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Love Language

4

Richard in Your Mind (Sydney, Australia)
"Tiny Colossus Face"
My Volcano (iTunes )

5

Mike & Karen (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Here's the Invitation!"
Here's the Invitation! (Single)(free download )
read about the design at: kellianderson.com

6

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Love is Eternity"
Web Exclusive (free download )

7

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Can't Keep Johnny Down"
Join Us (free download )

8

9

Golden Silvers (London, UK)
"Queen of the 21St Century" and "Another Universe"
True Romance (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Cat Empire

10

Best Coast (Los Angeles, CA)
"Boyfriend"
Crazy for You (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beach Fossils

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

On this episode I talk about Karen & Mike 's Paper Record Player Wedding Invitation which plays the awesome song they wrote , be sure to check out Kelli's blog entry about the creation of the invitation! Also, I talked over "Jessica" by They Might Be Giants from the Why Does the Sun Shine? EP , "No One Knows My Plan" by They Might Be Giants , as covered by Apocalypso , as well "Jamaica" by Richard in Your Mind .

1

The Naked and Famous (Auckland, New Zealand)
"Young Blood"
Passive Me, Aggressive You (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

2

3

Lykke Li (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Rich Kids Blues" and "Sadness is a Blessing"
Wounded Rhymes (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Soko

4

5

The Babies (NYC)
"Breakin the Law" and "Sunset"
The Babies (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Woods , the opening of "Breakin the Law" sounds like Luna

6

7

Carrie Brownstein (Portland, OR) & Fred Armisen (NYC)
"Portland, Oregon (You're My Home)" and "Dream of the 90's"
Portlandia (single) (iTunes )
similar: Flight of the Conchords

8

9

Washed Out (Perry, GA)
"Feel It All Around" and "New Theory"
Life of Leisure (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Jesus and Mary Chain

10

11

Rubblebucket (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Triangular Daisies" and "Came Out of a Lady"
Triangular Daisies EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

12

Guards (NYC)
"Taxi Cab"
Cover Songs 7" (free download )
cover of: Vampire Weekend

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

The music I talked over on this episode was "Open a Bottle" by Shugo Tokumaru and all proceeds from sales of this song go to relief efforts in Japan. So buy it now and pay a lot for it! It's a great song!

1

Coma Cinema (Columbia, SC)
"Caroline, Please Kill Me"
Blue Suicide (download the album for free )
similar: Blackbird Blackbird , Guards

2

3

Madeline (GA) & Karl Blau (WA) & Your Heart Breaks (WA)
"Boy You Loved to Watch Me Cry" and "I Waited All Day"
Tour EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Ballet

4

5

Madeline (Athens, GA)
"Sorry" and "White Flag"
White Flag (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

6

7

Your Heart Breaks (Seattle, WA)
"Torrey Pines" and "Start by Walking"
A Love is a Long Dark (Love is All You Need) (buy online )
similar: Kimya Dawson

8

9

Class Actress (NYC)
"Careful What You Say" and "Adolescent Heart"
Journal of Ardency EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Elizabeth Harper

10

Freelance Whales (NYC)
"Enzymes"
Green Label Sound (free download )

11

Diego Garcia (San Francisco, CA)
"You Were Never There"
You Were Never There (single) (eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from HBO 's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe ) where he talks about what it's like to try to govern with the republican party.

FIRST EPISODE OF SEASON 8! NOW IN A SLIGHTLY HIGHER BITRATE! 160k AAC!

1

Dum Dum Girls (Los Angeles, CA)
"There is a Light That Never Goes Out"
He Gets Me High EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Raveonettes , The Vaselines

2

3

The Go! Team (Brighton, UK)
"Ready to Go Steady" and "Voice Yr Choice"
Rolling Blackouts (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
download their awesome mix: TOMAHAWK by The Go! Team

4

5

Air Waves (Brooklyn, NYC/Austin, TX)
"Lightning" and "Waters"
Dungeon Dots (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

6

7

Sad Day for Puppets (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Tingle in My Head" and "Such a Waste"
Pale Silver & Shiny Gold (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Sambassadeur , The Jesus And Mary Chain

8

9

DeVotchKa (Denver, CO)
"Exhaustible" and "Bad Luck Heels"
100 Lovers (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beirut

10

Aloe Blacc (Orange County, CA)
"I Need a Dollar"
Good Things (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Bill Withers

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the new IFC series The Onion News Network about The Real Obama.

LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 7! NEXT EPISODE WILL BE IN FEBRUARY 2011!

1

Ernesto Djédjé (Daloa, Ivory Coast)
"Zadie Bobo"
Ivory Coast Soul (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Muddyface

2

3

Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Hiding from Our Time" and "Teenage Ballad (High School)"
Hiding from Our Time EP (free download )
similar: Twin Sister

4

The Babies (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Meet Me in the City"
Meet Me in the City EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Woods

5

The Babies (Brooklyn, NYC)
"All Things Come to Pass"
All Things Come to Pass EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Woods

6

7

Chalk and Numbers (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Let's Go Away" and "When Summer is Through"
He Knew EP (free download )
similar: The Dansttes

8

9

Blackbird Blackbird (San Francisco, CA)
"So Sorry Girl" and "Let's Move On Together"
Summer Heart (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Computer Magic

10

11

Generationals (New Orleans, LA)
"Trust" and "Say for Certain"
Trust EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros , The Love Language

12

Big Troubles (Ridgewood, NJ)
"Freudian Slips"
Worry (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Reading Rainbow

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live 's "Weekend Update" about Sharks in Egypt and the recent repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, as well as clips from a recent, special episode of Randy Cohen 's The Ethicist podcast for The New York Times (subscribe ).

SPECIAL 6th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC EPISODE!!

1

Saint Etienne (Croydon, England, UK)
"I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You"
A Glimpse of Stocking (free from blogs )
similar: Sarah Cracknell , Hooverphonic , One Dove

2

3

4

Best Coast & Wavves (CA), Coconut Records , Bishop Allen (NY)
"Got Something for You", "It's Christmas", "You'll Never Find My Christmas"
Target's: The Christmas Gig (free download )

5

Kill It Kid (Bath, England, UK)
"Just Like Christmas"
Just Like Christmas (single) (free download )
cover of: Low

6

Pomplamoose (Corte Madera, CA)
"Always in the Season"
2009 Holiday Song (myspace )
checkout the great video and give a goat !

7

Coldplay (London, England, UK)
"Christmas Lights"
Christmas Lights (single) (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

8

My Teenage Stride (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Is it Christmastime Already?"
An Indiecater Christmas 2008 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Aislers Set

9

Boca Chica (Pittsburgh, PA)
"Snow Angels"
An Indiecater Christmas 2009 (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Freelance Whales

10

Natalie Prass (Nashville, TN)
"No Better Time"
An Indiecater Christmas 2010 (buy online )
similar: The Low Standards

11

The Crookes (Sheffield, England, UK)
"Just Like Christmas"
12 Days of Crookesmas
cover of: Low

12

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago, IL)
"Traveling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone on Christmas in Montpelier, VT"
vs. Children (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

13

Divide & Kreate (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Jingle Jane"
A Very Bootie Christmas (free dload ) or Santastic II: Clausome (free dload )
mashup of: The Velvet Underground , Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live ' s "Weekend Update" when City correspondent Stefon stops by to share some of the hottest spots in New York for Christmas tourists. (watch ).

1

Lykke Li (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Get Some"
Get Some (singel) (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: El Perro del Mar

2
3

Stereolab (London, UK)
"Leleklato Sugar" and "Everybody's Weird Except Me"
Not Music (iTunes )
blog featuring music that: Sounds Like Stereolab

4

5

Let's Wrestle (London, UK)
"Song for Old People" and "Tanks"
In the Court of the Wrestling Let's (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pete & The Pirates

6

7

Stars (Montreal, Canada)
"Changes" and "Dead Hearts"
The Five Ghosts (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Submarines , The New Pornographers

8

9

Ruckus Roboticus (Dayton, Ohio)
"When I Grow Up" and "Never Play with Scratches"
Playing with Scratches (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: DJ Shadow , Kid Koala

10

dj BC (Boston, MA)
"Unlovable Jerk"
Bootie Boston 22 (free download )
mashup of: The Smiths and Dirty Mac

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

On this episode I talked over "Pop Molecules (Molecular Pop 2)" from the new Stereolab album, as well as "Carol" and "Sunset Rounds" by Jeff Richmond from the new 30 Rock Album (Amazon ).

SPECIAL ALL SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC EPISODE!

1

Butterfly Joe (Philadelphia, PA)
"San Francisco"
Butterfly Joe (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Dead Milkmen

2

The Animals (London, UK)
"San Franciscan Nights"
The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Zombies

3

Of Montreal (Athens, GA)
"Honeymoon in San Francisco"
The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

4

Scott McKenzie (California)
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"
Forrest Gump Soundtrack (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Mamas & the Papas

5

The Aislers Set (San Francisco, CA)
"Mission Bells"
How I Learned to Write Backwards (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Marine Girls

6

Deerhoof (San Francisco, CA)
"Offend Maggie"
Offend Maggie (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Dirty Projectors

7

Still Flyin' (San Francisco, CA)
"Neu Idea"
A Party in Motion EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Allo Darlin'

8

Global Deejays (Austria)
"The Sound of San Francisco" (Nordic Progressive Edit)
The Sound of San Francisco (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Duptribe

9

Silver Jews (East Nashville, TN)
"San Francisco B.C."
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pavement

10

Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland)
"San Francisco Song"
Keep it Clean EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Belle & Sebastian

11

Hello Saferide (Stockholm, Sweden)
"San Francisco"
Introducing... (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Britta Persson

12

The Decemberists (Portland, OR)
"O Valencia!"
The Crane Wife (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Colin Meloy , Death Cab for Cutie

13

The Magnetic Fields (NYC)
"Come Back from San Francisco"
69 Love Songs (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The 6ths , The Gothic Archies , Future Bible Heroes

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

Music in the background: "The Boat That I Row," "La Banda," and "San Francisco" by Chus Martínez Y Su Conjunto from Exitos, Exitos, Exitos, Vol.2 (Amazon , iTunes , eMusic ), as well as "You Can't Go Home Again" by DJ Shadow from The Private Press (Amazon , iTunes ), and "San Francisco" by Scrabbel from their self-titled album (Amazon , iTunes , eMusic ).

1

The Radio Dept. (Malmö & Stockholm Sweden )
"The New Improved Hypocrisy"
The New Improved Hypocrisy Single (iTunes , eMusic )
similar: Beach Fossils , Crocodiles

2

3

Junip (Gothenburg, Sweden)
"Always" and "Off Point"
Fields (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: José González

4

5

Elvis Perkins (Hudson River Valley, NY)
"Shampoo" and "Hey"
In Dearland (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Langhorne Slim , M. Ward

6

7

The Go! Team (Brighton, UK) & The Ruby Suns (Auckland, NZ)
"Templates from Home" & "Don't Trust the Dusty Fruit"
Bruce Parry Presents Amazon Tribe: Songs for Survival (iTunes , Amazon )
songs feature The Penan and Babongo Tribes

8

9

Symphony of Science (Bellingham, WA)
"A Glorious Dawn" and "We are All Connected"
Symphony of Science (iTunes , free download )
with: Carl Sagan , Stephen Hawking , Bill Nye , Richard Dawkins , et al.

10

Ben Folds (Nashville, TN)
"Your Dogs"
Lonely Avenue (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
lyrics by: Nick Hornby

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Survival International 's Uncontacted Tribes series of videos which you can watch here . (Feel free to donate money to this great organization .) And also from director Michael Marantz 's Earth - The Pale Blue Dot (watch ) a video featuring Carl Sagan offering an optimistic, science-based philosophy about human's place in the universe.

SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG MUSIC HEARD IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN EPISODE!

1

Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Distance"
Face It/Distance (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Brooklyn Bowl

2

3

Belle & Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
"I Want the World to Stop" and "I'm Not Living in the Real World"
Belle & Sebastian Write About Love (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: The East River Park Concert Series

4

5

The New Rags (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Love of My Life" and "Your Room"
Gotta Get Out of Here (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: The Delancy

6

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago, IL)
"Bobby Malone Moves Home"
Etiquette (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Monster Island Basement

7

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago, IL)
"Optimist vs. The Silent Alarm (When the Saints Go Marching In)"
vs. Children (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Monster Island Basement

8

The Ballet (NYC)
"Never Go Home"
Bear Life (iTunes )
heard at: Knitting Factory

9

Shout Out Louds (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Throwing Stones"
Work (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: The Music Hall of Williamsburg

10

Twin Sister (NYC)
"Lady Daydream"
Color Your Life (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Glasslands

11

Michel Polnareff (Nérac, France)
"Le roi des fourmis"
Le bal des Laze (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: The Bedford

12

Plastic Bertrand (Brussels, Belgium)
"Ca Plane Pour Moi"
Plastic Bertrand (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Fornino

13

Jerry Reed (Nashville, TN)
"East Bound and Down"
The Essential Jerry Reed (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Jen and Outlaw's Crawfish Boil Truck via NY Times

14

The Dead Milkmen (Philadelphia, PA)
"Punk Rock Girl"
Beelzebubba (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: The Warsaw

15

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (Los Angeles CA)
"40 Day Dream"
Up from Below (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Williamsburg Dental Arts

16

The Brunettes (Auckland, New Zealand)
"The Record Store"
Mars Loves Venus (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
heard at: Sound Fix Records

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip of Patton Oswalt performing at Sound Fix Records (at the same location that The Brunettes played) when he did an in-store appearance for the release of his album Werewolves and Lollipops (iTunes , Amazon , eMusic ). Watch footage of this performance here .

1

Crocodiles (San Diego, CA)
"Hearts of Love"
Sleep Forever (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
I heard this on Aaron's podcast (subscribe )

2

3

Charlotte Gainsbourg (Paris, France)
"Me and Jane Doe" and "Le Chat du Café des Artistes"
IRM (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Air , Holden , Antena

4

5

Antena (France/Belgium)
"Camino Del Sol" and "Spiral Staircase"
Camino Del Sol (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
watch a cool sweater video my friends made with "Camino Del Sol"

6

Holden (Paris, France)
"MIA"
Fantomatisme (Amazon.fr )
similar: Antena , Charlotte Gainsbourg

7

8

Daniel Johnston (Waller, TX)
"Freedom" and "Queenie the Doggie"
Is and Always Was (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Page France

9

10

Mirah (feat. Thao Nguyen ) (Philadelphia/San Francisco) & Nellie McKay (NYC)
"NOLA" and "Late Again"
Dear New Orleans (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

11

Nellie McKay (NYC)
"Dispossessed"
Home Sweet Mobile Home (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
not really similar to but, ya know maybe like: Dawn Landes

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe ) about the new film The Social Network . I also talked over "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from it's soundtrack (Amazon MP3 ) by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross .

1

Sufjan Stevens (Brooklyn, NY)
"I Walked"
The Age of Adz (free download )
similar: Danielson

2

3

The Happy Bullets (Dallas, TX)
"Fuck Yeah, I'm In Love With You" and "Darla and Her Dog"
Hydropanic at the Natatorium (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Hefner

4

5

Miniature Tigers (Phoenix, AZ)
"Gold Skull" and "Bullfighter Jacket"
F O R T R E S S (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Of Montreal

6

7

8

Sara Radle (Los Angeles, CA)
"Baxter Hill", "Chicago" and "Superstar"
Four (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Walking Sleep , Jenny Lewis

9

10

MGMT (Brooklyn, NY) and Hot Hot Heat (Shawnigan Lake, Canada)
"Art is Everywhere" and "Time to Go Outdoors"
Yo Gabba Gabba Music is Awesome! Vol 2 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

11

Micachu (London, UK)
"Golden Phone"
Jewellery (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Dirty Projectors

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

The music that was talked over on this episode was "Seize the Time" by Fuselage from FSUK 2 (Amazon ), "Never Stop", "Knight Moves" and "Smothered Mate" by Gonzales from his new album Ivory Tower (iTunes , Amazon , eMusic ), and also "Moi Je Joue" by Brigitte Bardot from The Best of Bardot (iTunes , Amazon ).

SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG TOTALLY SUBURBAN EPISODE

1

Arcade Fire (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"
The Suburbs (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Broken Social Scene

2

Jesse Irwin (St. Louis, MO)
"Strip Mall"
Hair of the Dog (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Hank Williams , Woody Guthrie

3

The Happy Bullets (Dallas, TX)
"A Momentary Vision of the End of the World as Seen Through the Eyes of a Suburban Housewife"
The Vice and Virtue Ministry (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

4

Deer Tick (Providence, RI)
"Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)"
War Elephant (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Wilco , The Old 97's

5

The Shins (Portland, OR)
"Little Boxes"
Turn on Me 7"
cover of: Malvina Reynolds

6

The Monkees (Los Angeles, CA)
"Pleasant Valley Sunday"
The Best of The Monkees (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Beatles

7

Sparks (Los Angeles, CA)
"Suburban Homeboy"
Lil' Beethoven (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Queen

8

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names (Stockholm, Sweden)
"1999"
#4 EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Irene , I'm from Barcelona

9

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago, IL)
"A Normal Suburban Lifestyle is a Near Impossibility Once You've Fallen in Love with an International Spy"
Answering Machine Music (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

10

All-Time Quarterback (Bellingham, WA)
"Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs"
All-Time Quarterback (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Death Cab for Cutie

11

Real Estate (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Suburban Beverage"
Real Estate (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beach Fossils

12

The Rhombus (San Francisco, CA)
"Suburb"
Margins (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Bandname

13

Office (Chicago, IL)
"Suburban Perfume"
A Night at the Ritz (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The 1900s

14

hollAnd (Los Angeles, CA)
"Suburb On the Euphrates"
The Paris Hilton Mujahideen (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Bandname

15

Arcade Fire (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"Suburban War"
The Suburbs (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Broken Social Scene

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Marc Maron 's stand-up album Final Engagement (iTunes , Amazon , eMusic ) about Traffic, as well as from the awesome Kunstler Cast podcast (subscribe ) hosted by Duncan Crary , James Kunstler 's TED Talk (watch ), and PBS 's Need to Know from a great segment on the changing demographics of the suburbs (watch ).

1

Pill Wonder (Seattle, WA)
"Gone to the Market"
Jungle/Surf (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Patrick Wolf

2

3

The Like (Los Angeles, CA)
"Release Me" and "Walk of Shame"
Release Me (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Pipettes

4

5

6

Magic Kids (Memphis, TN)
"Hey Boy", "Summer" and "Hideout"
Memphis (iTunes , eMusic (for ("Hey Boy"), Amazon MP3 )
similar: Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele , Ice Cream Socialists

7

8

Rainbow Arabia (Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA)
"Holiday in Congo" and "Harlem Sunrise"
Kabukimono (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Husky Rescue

9

10

Reading Rainbow (Philadelphia, PA)
"A Life to Find" and "The Sun's Out"
Mystical Participation (Buy Online )
similar: The War on Drugs

11

Wounded Lion (Los Angeles, CA)
"Belt of Orion"
Wounded Lion (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
this song is kinda similar to: Jonathan Richman

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features the opening theme song from the long-running children's PBS educational series Reading Rainbow (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ), and a snippet of the YouTube sensation Double Rainbow (watch ).

SPECIAL ALL-COVERS EPISODE

1

The Dahlmanns (Moss, Norway)
"Holiday Road"
The Dahlmanns EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
cover of: Lindsay Buckingham

2

Hot Chip (London, UK) and Peter Gabriel (London, UK)
"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
the interwebs (download it off the blogs )
cover of: Vampire Weekend

3

The Bird and the Bee (Los Angeles, CA)
"Tonight You Belong to Me"
One Too Many Hearts EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
cover of: Nancy Sinatra , Lee Hazlewood

4

Scala & Kolacny Brothers (Aarschot, Belgium)
"Creep"
On the Rocks (eMusic has a slightly different version, Amazon Import )
cover of: Radiohead , watch the trailer for The Social Network

5

Scala & Kolacny Brothers (Aarschot, Belgium)
"Perfect Day"
Dream On (eMusic , Amazon Import )
cover of: Lou Reed

6

7

Dean & Britta (NYC)
"I'll Keep It with Mine" (Remix) and "Not a Young Man Anymore" (Remix)
13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon ) covers of: Nico , and The Velvet Underground

8

The Budos Band (Staten Island, NYC)
"Reppirt Yad"
The Budos Band III (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
cover of: The Beatles ' "Day Tripper"

9

10

Unisex Salon (NYC) and Adam Green (NYC)
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" and "I Will"
The Beatles Complete on Ukulele (free download )
covers of: The Beatles

11

Norah Jones (NYC)
"Strangers"
The Fall (Bonus Disc) (iTunes , Amazon )
cover of: The Kinks

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from David Cross ' most recent stand-up comedy album Bigger & Blackerer (iTunes , Amazon ) about how a brand at Whole Foods was jewish.

1

Cut Copy (Melbourne, Australia)
"Where I'm Going"
Where I'm Going (pre-release single) (free download )
similar: Yeasayer , Junior Senior

2

3

4

Allo, Darlin' (London, UK)
"Dreaming", "Woody Allen", "What Will Be Will Be"
Allo, Darlin' (album is here , "Deaming" is at iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
similar: Camera Obscura , Blair

5

6

The Love Language (Raleigh, NC)
"Heart to Tell", "Summer Dust"
Libraries (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes

7

8

The Young Veins (Los Angeles, CA)
"Take a Vacation!", "Cape Town"
Take a Vacation! (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Kinks , Creation

9

10

Neighbors (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Friends", "Hooligans"
Hooligans EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Plushgun , The LK

11

Voxtrot (Austin, TX)
"Berlin, Without Return..."
Berlin, Without Return... EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Smiths

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips Woody Allen 's album The Night Club Years 1964-1968 (Amazon ) discussing "Oral Contraception," as well as a clip from WNYC 's On the Media tribute to the recently passed Daniel Shore (subscribe ).

1

Au Revoir Simone (Brooklyn, NYC)
"All or Nothing" (Jensen Sportag Remix)
Night Light (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
album is similar to: Cut Copy

2

3

The Drums (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Book of Stories" and "Best Friend"
The Drums (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Beach Boys , Surfer Blood

4

The Recovery Club (Glasgow, Scotland)
"Rest and Be Thankful"
Rest and Be Thankful EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Julie Peel

5

6

Betty & The Werewolves (London, UK)
"Francis" and "Good as Gold"
Tea Time Favourites (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Tender Trap , Helen Love

7

The Clientele (London, UK)
"Paper Planes"
The AV Club Undercover (website )
cover of: MIA

8

Frightened Rabbit (Selkirk, Scotland)
"Confetti"
The AV Club Undercover (website )
cover of: The Lemonheads

9

The Lemonheads (Boston, MA)
"Beautiful"
Varshons (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
cover of: Christina Aguilera

10

The Lemonheads (Boston, MA)
"Confetti"
It's a Shame About Ray (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Evan Dando , Juliana Hatfield

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a heavily edited clip from WNYC 's Brian Lehrer Show with guest Noah Feldman , a Harvard Law professor discussing the state of "liberals" on the Supreme Court and the role they have played for the last 40 years.

1

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (Los Angeles, CA)
"Home" (RAC Remix)
RAC (free download )

2
3

Johnny Flynn (London, England, UK)
"Kentucky Pill" and "Howl"
Been Listening (Amazon Import )
similar: Ballboy

4
5

Woods (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Blood Dries Darker" and "Suffering Season"
At Echo Lake (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beach Fossils , Real Estate

6
7

Dum Dum Girls (Los Angeles, CA)
"Jail La La" and "Bhang, Bhang, I'm a Burnout"
I Will Be (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Raveonettes , The Vaselines

8

Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, NY)
"The Horse"
Beach Fossils (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Real Estate

9

Miles Kurosky (San Francisco, CA)
"Pink Lips, Black Lungs"
The Desert of Shallow Effects (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Beulah

10

Yoko Ono (NYC) and Miles Kurosky (San Francisco, CA)
"Let Me Count the Ways" (Remix 2)
Myspace (Myspace )

11

Yoko Ono (NYC)
"Let Me Count the Ways"
Milk and Honey (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: John Lennon

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from director Michael Marantz 's Earth - The Pale Blue Dot (watch ) a video featuring Carl Sagan offering an optimistic, science-based philosophy about human's place in the universe. If you can get past it sounding like a Lexus ad on a classical radio station, it's really quite moving. Also, download the Sun Mix made by my friend Jessica .

1

The Radio Dept. (Lund, Sweden)
"Heaven's on Fire"
Clinging to a Scheme (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
quote at the beginning is Thurston Moore from this .

2

3

Bye Bye Bicycle (Gothenburg,
Sweden)
"Navigation" and "Agent"
Compass (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Sambassadeur , Shout Out Louds

4

5

The Brunettes (Auckland, New Zealand)
"Red Rollerskates" and "Magic (No Bunny)"
Paper Dolls (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Ladybug Transistor , The Blow

6

7

Walking Sleep (Los Angeles, CA)
"The Cause" and "Final Chapter"
Measures (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Sara Radle , Office , The New Pornographers

8

The New Pornographers (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Daughters of Sorrow"
Together (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Neko Case , A.C. Newman , Destroyer

9

Kirsty MacColl (Croydon, England, UK)
"They Don't Know" (and "Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim")
Galore - The Best of Kirsty MacColl (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Beautiful South

10

Peter Bjorn & John (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Nothing to Worry About"
Living Thing (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Lykke Li

11

Vampire Weekend (NYC)
"Jonathan Low"
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Soundtrack (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Givers , Discovery

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the season finale of HBO 's Real Time with Bill Maher , discussing the estate tax (or lack thereof) and business people who enter politics with guests Rachel Maddow and Jon Meacham (subscribe ). If you find yourself seeking fine entertainment in NYC, go for the gold and attend an evening of the best magic you'll ever see . The millionaires' magician Steve Cohen , will blow your mind at Chamber Magic .

1

Avi Buffalo (Long Beach, CA)
"What's in It For?"
Avi Buffalo (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: MGMT

2

3

Little Dragon (Gothenburg, Sweden)
"Fortune" and "Blinking Pigs"
Machine Dreams (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Twin Sister

4

Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland)
"The Sweetest Thing" (Richard Hawley Remix)
The Nights are Cold EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Belle & Sebastian

5

God Help the Girl (Glasgow, Scotland &Stockholm,
Sweden)
"A Down and Dusky Blonde"
Baby You're Blind EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Camera Obscura , Belle & Sebastian , Those Dancing Days

6

7

My Robot Friend (NYC)
"By Your Side" (feat. Dean Wareham) and "23 Minutes in Brussels"
Soft-Core (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Luna , Dean & Britta

8

Dean & Britta (NYC)
"Making Me Smile"
Sing Me To Sleep - Indie Lullabies (iTunes , Amazon , Bonus Version! )
cover of: Jack Early

9

Julie Peel (France & Canada)
"Strings That Tie to You"
Sing Me To Sleep - Indie Lullabies (iTunes , Amazon , Bonus Version! )
cover of: Jon Brion

10

The Real Tuesday Weld (UK)
"Little Boxes"
Sing Me To Sleep - Indie Lullabies (iTunes , Amazon , Bonus Version! )
cover of: Malvina Reynolds

11

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip (Stanford-le-Hope, England, UK)
"Get Better"
The Logic of Chance (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Streets

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Saturday Night Live 's Weekend Update segment featuring Stefon , their City Correspondent, giving pointers to some fun, family fun spots for visiting out-of-towners. Watch the full clips here (they're edited in the show).

1

Still Flyin' (San Francisco, CA)
"The Hott Chord Is Struck"
Never Gonna Touch the Ground (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
this song is on a great, and free compilation via Amazon

2

3

Gigi (with Chorus) (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"Some Second Best" and "No, My Heart Will Go On"
Maintenant (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: No Kids , She & Him

4

5

Generationals (New Orleans, LA)
"Angry Charlie" and "When They Fight, They Fight"
Con Law (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

6

Frightened Rabbit (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
"Swim Until You Can't See Land"
The Winter of Mixed Drinks (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The National , Shout Out Louds

7

8

Mumford & Sons (London, UK)
"Winter Winds" and "The Cave"
Sigh No More (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Noah & the Whale

9

10

Northern Portrait (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"Crazy" and "When Goodness Falls"
Criminal Art Lovers (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Smiths

11

The Magic Whispers (Madrid,
Spain)
"100,000 Fireflies"
Yin Yang (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
similar: Would-Be-Goods , The Icicles

12

The Magnetic Fields (NYC and now Los Angeles, CA)
"The Dada Polka"
Realism (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The 6ths , Future Bible Heroes

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from BBC 's That Mitchell and Webb Look parodying "participatory news", watch it here . Also a clip from HBO 's Real Time with Bill Maher where he plays a real Alabama political ad (watch it here ) followed by a couple of fake ones that take it through its logical next steps.

1

Richard Hawley (London, UK)
"Tonight the Streets are Ours"
Tonight the Streets are Ours EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Burt Bacharach

2

3

Sambassadeur (Gothenburg, Sweden)
"Days" and "Small Parade"
European (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Camera Obscura , The Ladybug Transistor

4

5

Blair (Brooklyn, NY via New Orleans, LA)
"Rampage" and "Wolfboy"
Die Young (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
(oops . I said she was from New Orleans, but she's moved to Brooklyn)

6

7

Dr. Dog (Philidelphia, PA)
"Where'd All the Time Go?" and "Later"
Shame, Shame (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Page France , James

8

James (Manchester, UK)
"Laid" (Acoustic)
Radio WoodStock 25th Anniversary (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
(they have a new release in the UK, once it's out here I'll probably play it)

9

10

Sally Seltmann (Melbourne, Australia)
"Set Me Free" and "Dark Blue Angel"
Heart That's Pounding (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: New Buffalo , Regina Spektor

11

Tobin Sprout (Leland, MI)
"Small Parade"
What's Up Matador? (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Guided By Voices

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features an extended clip of Bill Moyers , one of my favorite people, about his admitted bias, from the final episode of Bill Moyers Journal . As well as a clip from NPR 's All Things Considered recent interview with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood about new national bike policy.

1

Miike Snow (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Animal"
Mike Snow (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: MGMT , Passion Pit , The LK

2

3

Smith Westerns (Chicago, IL)
"My Heart" and "Dreams"
Smith Westerns (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Thee Oh Sees

4

The Drums (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Submarine"
'Summertime!' (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Beach Boys , Surfer Blood

5

6

Surfer Blood (West Palm Beach, FL)
"Twin Peaks" and "Catholic Pagans"
Astrocoast (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Weezer

7

Quasi (Portland, OR)
"Everything & Nothing at All"
American Gong (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Yo La Tengo

8

Twin Sister (Brooklyn, NY)
"I Want a House"
Vampires with Dreaming Kids (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: White Hinterland

9

Twin Sister (Brooklyn, NY)
"All Around and Away We Go"
Color Your Life (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: White Hinterland

10

David Byrne (NYC) and Fatboy Slim (UK) feat. Nellie McKay (NYC)
"How are You"
Here Lies Love (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Talking Heads , Brighton Port Authority

11

MGMT (Brooklyn, NYC)
"I Found a Whistle"
Congratulations (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Passion Pit

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live briefly addressing the Catholic Church's scandals and appolgies.Watch the whole thing .

1

Adam Green (NYC)
"Castles and Tassels"
Minor Love (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Moldy Peaches

2

3

She & Him (Los Angeles, CA and Portland, OR)
"Home" and "Don't Look Back"
Volume 2 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: M. Ward , Rilo Kiley

4

5

Broken Bells ( Los Angeles, CA)
"The High Road" and "The Ghost Inside"
Broken Bells (iTunes , Amazon MP3 , eMusic )
similar: The Shins , Danger Mouse

6

7

Islands (Montreal, Canada)
"Vapours" and "Disarming the Car Bomb"
Vapours (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Unicorns

8

OK Go (Los Angeles, CA)
"This Too Shall Pass"
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
Watch the video , and also the other video . They're both awesome.

9

10

Beach House (Baltimore, MD)
"Zebra" and "Used to Be"
Teen Dream (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Real Estate

11

Crystal Stilts (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Sugarbaby"
Love Is a Wave EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: an upbeat Joy Division

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SPECIAL ALL AFRICAN MUSIC EPISODE (PART 2 of 2) — FOCUS ON GUITAR

1

Muddyface (Zimbabwe)
"Mukoma Wangu"
Zimbabwe Frontline Vol. 3 Roots Rock Guitar Party (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

2

3

Hallelujah Chicken Run Band (Zimbabwe)
"Manheru Changamire" and "Tinokumbira Kuziva"
Take One (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Thomas Mapfumo

4

Thomas Mapfumo (Zimbabwe)
"Farirai Zimbabwe"
African Classics: Thomas Mapfumo (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Hallelujah Chicken Run Band

5

Thomas Mapfumo (Zimbabwe)
"Tombi Wachena"
Spirits to Bite Our Ears: Singles 1977-1986 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Hallelujah Chicken Run Band

6

Extra Golden (Nairobi, Kenya & Chicago, IL)
"Jakolando"
Hera Ma Nono (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Nomo

7

Amadou & Mariam (Republic of Mali)
"Coulibaly"
Dimanche a Bamako (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
featuring, and produced by: Manu Chao

8

Mabulu (Mozambique)
"Bula Bula" (Pronounce Yourself)
Soul Marrabenta (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

9

Opotopo (easy Kabaka Brown) (Nigeria)
"Belema"
Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afrosounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-76 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

10

Four Brothers (Zimbabwe)
"Rudo Imoto"
Makorokoto: Best of Four Brothers (Amazon MP3 )

11

The Green Arrows (Zimbabwe)
"Hurungwe"
4-Track Recording Session (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from a bio of Hellelujah Chicken Run Band on PRI 's The World (listen to the whole thing here ), as well as clips from a 2004 interview with South African comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys on NPR 's Fresh Air with Terry Gross discussing the differences and similarities between the U.S. and South Africa (listen to the whole thing here ).

SPECIAL ALL AFRICAN MUSIC EPISODE (PART 1 of 2) — ECLECTIC MIX

1

Udokotela Shange Namajaha (South Africa)
"Sobabamba" (We Will Get Them)
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 1 (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

2

The Very Best (Malawi & UK)
"Julia" (Javelin Re-do)
Myspace
Remix of: The Very Best

3

Miriam Makeba (Johannesburg, South Africa)
"Beware Verwoerd" (Naants' Indod'Emnyama)
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )

4

Miriam Makeba (Johannesburg, South Africa)
"Hapo Zamani"
Pata Pata (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

5

Emile YX? (Cape Town, South Africa)
"African Sun"
Who Am I? (buy online )
Myspace

6

The Black Hotels (Johannesburg, South Africa)
"This Time"
Films for the Next Century (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Desmond & The Tutus

7

BLK JKS (Johannesburg, South Africa)
"Lakeside"
After Robots (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

8

Desmond & The Tutus (Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa)
"Saggy Bottom Speedo Swimmer"
Tuckshop (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Strokes

9

Gold Fish (Cape Town, South Africa)
"Cruising Through" (radio edit)
Perceptions of Pacha (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
like: Persephone's Bees ' "Nice Day" with Citizen King 's "Better Days"

10

J.J. Keki (Uganda)
"Ali Omu Yekka"
Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

11

Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
"Abezizwa" (Uniting Nations Together)
The Very Best of Ladysmith Black Mambazo (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )

12

Hirut Bekele & Police Orchestra (Ethiopia )
"Ewnetegna Feker"
Ethiopiques 13 : Ethiopian Groove the Golden Seventies (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

13

Ayub Ogada (Kenya)
"Dicholo"
The Constant Gardener Soundtrack (iTunes , Amazon )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from an Open University series called Environment: Journeys Through a Changing World (iTunes ) about habituated gorillas and how conservation and tourism has effected the area, its people, and the gorillas themselves. A great watch, free in iTunes .

This is the First Episode of Season 7!

1

Real Estate (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Beach Comber"
Real Estate (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Ducktails, Beach Fossils

2

3

Vampire Weekend (NYC)
"White Sky" and "Giant" (Bonus Track)
Contra (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Givers , Discovery

4

5

Laura Veirs (Portland, OR)
"I Can See Your Tracks" and "Summer is the Champion"
July Flame (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Mirah , Dawn Landes

6

Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, NY)
"Daydream"
Myspace
similar: Real Estate

7

Passion Pit (Boston, MA)
"Sleepyhead"
Manners (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: MGMT , Discovery

8

Jenny Owen Youngs (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Here is a Heart"
Transmitter Failure (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Regina Spektor

9

Sunset (Austin, TX)
"Fishtown"
Gold Dissolves to Gray (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Duckworth Lewis Method

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from "Pina Horchata" (Vampire Weekend "Horchata" vs Rupert Holmes "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)") from the album Mysplice 4 (free download ), and from the title track on Eugene Mirman 's God is a 12-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's (iTunes , Amazon ).

This is the Last Episode of Season 6!

1

Noah and the Whale (London, UK)
"Love of an Orchestra"
The First Days of Spring (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Jens Lekman

2

3

The Ballet (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Dangerous" and "Rough Trade"
Bear Life (iTunes )
similar: The Hidden Cameras , The Magnetic Fields

4

5

Devendra Banhart (Los Angeles, CA)
"Foolin'" and "Angelika"
What Will We Be (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Bees , Little Joy

6

Liechtenstein (Göteborg,
Sweden)
"All at Once"
Survival Strategies in a Modern World (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Aislers Set

7

The Albertans (Brooklyn, NYC & Vancouver, Canada)
"OK"
Legends of Sam Marco (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The XX

8

9

10

Flight of the Conchords (Wellington, New Zealand)
"You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute", "Friends", & "Carol Brown"
I Told You I Was Freaky (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Tim Minchin

11

12

So Cow (Tuam, Ireland)
"Outskirts" and "Casablanca"
So Cow (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Of Montreal meets Weezer

13

The Ballet (Brooklyn, NYC)
"In My Head (Version)"
Teenbeat No.1 Record Label (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Hidden Cameras , The Magnetic Fields

14

Noah and the Whale (London, UK)
"Love of an Orchestra" (Nightwaves Remix)
Love of an Orchestra (Remixs) (free download )
also free : The Gold Panda Remix , Max Tundra Remix

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show (subscribe ) where his guests praise one of my surprise favorite movies of the year, Fantastic Mr. Fox . I expected I'd like it well enough, but ended up REALLY liking it.

Special Christmas Music Episode!

1

Tim Minchin (London, UK and Western Australia)
"White Wine in the Sun"
Ready for This? (Live) (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Flight of the Conchords

2

Would-Be-Goods (London, UK)
"Christmas in Haiti"
Mondo (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Tender Trap

3

Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland)
"The Blizzard"
The Blizzard (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Belle & Sebastian

4

Margo Guryan (Los Angeles, CA)
"I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You"
Christmas Cocktails with Santa's Swingin' Stocking Fillers (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Dory Previn

5

KT Tunstall (St Andrews, Scotland)
"Sleigh Ride"
Winter Songs (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Lilly Allen

6

The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra (Wellington, NZ)
"New Zealand Christmas Tree"
The Heartache EP (buy online )
similar: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

7

Au Revoir Simone (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Christmas Time is Here"
I'll Stay 'Til After Christmas (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Postmarks

8

Shonen Knife (Osaka, Japan)
"All I Want for Christmas"
All I Want for Christmas EP (Amazon )
similar: Pizzicato Five , My Little Airport

9

A plus D (San Francisco, CA)
"Give Da Jew Girl Toys"
Santastic II: Clausome (free download )
mashup of: Sarah Silverman and Trio

10

Saturday Looks Good to Me (Ann Arbor, MI)
"Christmas Blues"
Sound On Sound (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Fred Thomas

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Onion News Network story "Report: Nation’s Wealthy Cruelly Deprived of True Meaning of Christmas" (watch it ), as well as from a recent appearance of Bill Maher on The Jay Leno Show (watch it ).

1

Givers (Lafayette, LA)
"Up, Up, Up"
Givers EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Vampire Weekend

2

Vampire Weekend (NYC)
"Cousins"
Cousins EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
watch the Video

3

Fool's Gold (Los Angeles, CA)
"Surprise Hotel"
Fool's Gold (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Nomo , The Very Best

4

Slow Club (Sheffield, UK)
"Giving Up on Love"
Yeah So (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Los Campesinos!

5

Soko (France) & Marina (Brazil)
"Mum"
blogs
generously samples: War

6

The BPA (Brighton) feat. David Byrne (NYC) & Dizzee Rascal
"Toe Jam"
I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
aka: Norman Cook , Fatboy Slim

7

Yeasayer (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Ambling Alp"
Ambling Alp EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: MGMT

8

The Shins (Portland, OR)
"It's Okay, Try Again"
Yo Gabba Gabba! (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Flake Music

9

The National (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Ashamed of the Story I Told"
Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

10

Shonen Knife (Osaka, Japan)
"BBQ Party"
Super Group (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pizzicato Five , My Little Airport

11

Kings of Convenience (Bergen, Norway)
"Mrs. Cold"
Declaration of Dependence (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Erlend Øye , The Whitest Boy Alive

A NOTE ABOUT THIS EPISODE

This episode is kind of a "catch up" episode. I realized the season is almost over and I had a bunch of stuff I hadn't gotten to yet, so in order to cram a lot in, there's only one song per band. Also, check out David Byrne 's new book Bicycle Diaries .

Special Before-they-made-it Episode!

1

Tarkio (Missoula, MT)
"If I Had More Time"
Omnibus (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
nowadays they're: The Decemberists

2

3

Flake Music (Albuquerque, NM)
"Spanway Hits" and "The Shins"
When You Land Here, It's Time to Return (Amazon )
nowadays they're: The Shins

4

All-Time Quarterback (Bellingham, WA)
"Untitled"
All-Time Quarterback (iTunes )
nowadays they're: Death Cab for Cutie

5

6

Glitter Penis (Middletown, CT)
"Sparkle John" and "Dust in My Ears"
The Greatest Hits (free download )
nowadays they're: MGMT

7

MGMT (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Time to Pretend (Demo)"
Time to Pretend EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
still: MGMT

8

L'Homme Run (NYC)
"Giving Up Da Gun"
Demos
nowadays they're: Vampire Weekend

9

Realpeople (Santa Fe, NM)
"Untitled 14"
The Joys of Losing Weight
nowadays they're: Beirut

10

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes"
1984 Demo Tape
still: They Might Be Giants

11

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Rocket Ship"
TMBG Unlimited August
still: They Might Be Giants

12

Ben Folds Five (Winston-Salem, NC)
"Underground"
1990 Demo Tape
nowadays he's just: Ben Folds

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from a segment on The Onion 's Video News (subscribe to the video podcast ) called Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck .

1

The Ballet (Brooklyn, NY)
"The House on Fire"
Bear Life (free download )
similar: The Hidden Cameras

2

3

The Raveonettes (Copenhagen, Denmark)
"Bang!" and "Last Dance"
In and Out of Control (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Jesus and Mary Chain , My Bloody Valentine

4

5

Nellie McKay (NYC)
"Crazy Rhythm" and "The Very Thought of You"
Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
album of songs made popular by: Doris Day

6

The Spinto Band (Wilmington, Delaware)
"Brazil"
Slim & Slender (EP) (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
cover of the version by: Geoff Muldaur

7

8

Karen O & the Kids (NYC)
"Building All is Love" and "Worried Shoes"
Where the Wild Things Are (soundtrack) (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
"Worried Shoes" originally by: Daniel Johnston

9

Har Mar Superstar (Los Angeles, CA) (feat.Adam Green ) (NYC)
"Never My Love"
Whip It (Soundtrack) (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
originally by: The Association

10

Laura Veirs (Portland, OR)
"Wide-Eyed, Legless"
July Flame (free download )
similar: Mirah , Dawn Landes

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about Al Franken 's first bill which sought to ban funding for contractors who essentially allow the rape of their employees, and New Rules from Real Time with Bill Maher 's season finale.

AND NOW SPECIAL BIT OF PROMOTION

On this episode I talked over "The Yes Men Theme - Credit Roll" by Neel Murgai and performed by Sunny Jain's Red Baraat Festival with Neel Murgai . If you haven't yet, be sure to check out The Yes Men 's new movie The Yes Men Fix the World . It's a good, funny movie you'll enjoy and on top of that Kelli and I are both in it!

1

Adam Green (Brooklyn, NY)
"What Makes Him Act So Bad"
Minor Love (free download )
formerly of: The Moldy Peaches

2

3

Air (France)
"Sing Sang Sung" and "Love"
Love 2 (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Darkel , M83

4

5

Yo La Tengo (Hoboken, NJ)
"Here to Fall" and "If It's True"
Popular Songs (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pavement

6

Chemical Brothers (feat. The Flaming Lips )(UK & Oklahoma City)
"The Golden Path"
The Golden Path EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
song is similar to: Interpol , Apartment

7

8

Pomplamoose (Corte Madera, CA)
"Expiration Date" and "Twice as Nice"
Pomplamoose VideoSongs (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Bird and the Bee

9

Pomplamoose (Corte Madera, CA)
"Single Ladies"
Pomplamoose Covers (free download )
originally by: Beyonce

10

Vampire Weekend (NYC)
"Horchata"
Contra (free download )
similar: Discovery

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the Onion News Network 's (subscribe ) coverage of the happy and healthy Obama's being out-of-touch with miserable Americans (watch ), as well as clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe ) about Obama being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

1

The Very Best
"Warm Heart of Africa"
Warm Heart of Africa (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
featuring: Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend

2

3

Taken by Trees (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Day By Day" and "My Boys"
East of Eden (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Concretes

4

Gonzales (Paris, France)
"Singalong"
Le Guinness World Record 'The Works' (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Erik Satie

5

6

The Hidden Cameras (Toronto, Canada)
"He Falls to Me" and "The Little Bit"
Origin:Orphan (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

7

8

The xx (London, UK)
"Crystalised" and "VCR"
xx (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

9

10

11

They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Science is Real ", "Roy G. Biv ", and "Meet the Elements " (watch it!)
Here Comes Science (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans

12

Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans (Philadelphia, PA)
"What is a Shooting Star?"
Space Songs (free download )

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip from an episode of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason video podcast (subscribe ) explaining the often asked question "If we descended from Chimpanzees, then why are there still Chimpanzees?"

1

God Help the Girl (Glasgow, Scotland)
"He's a Loving Kind of Boy"
Stills EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Stuart Murdoch , Belle & Sebastian , Camera Obscura

2

3

Little Joy (Los Angeles, CA)
"The Next Time Around" and "Don’t Watch Me Dancing"
Little Joy (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Bees

4

5

Bibio (West Midlands, England, UK)
"Ambivalence Avenue" and "Lovers' Carvings"
Ambivalence Avenue (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Boards of Canada

6

7

The Spinto Band (Wilmington, Delaware)
"Brown Boxes" and "Oh Mandy"
Nice and Nicely Done (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

8

9

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (London, UK)
"Polly Put the Kettle On" and "Honolulu Rock-a Roll-a"
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Carl Perkins , Wanda Jackson

10

The Muppets
"Hawaiian War Chant"
Muppet Hits Volume 2 (Amazon )
similar: The Fraggles

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Patton Oswalt 's new album My Weakness is Strong (iTunes , Amazon ) talking about how Obama's election has changed time travel, and a clip from Saturday Night Live 's 2008 Vice Presidential Debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden (watch ).

1

The Love Language (Chapel Hill, NC)
"Providence"
The Love Language (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

2

3

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (Los Angeles, CA)
"Home" and "Janglia"
Up from Below (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

4

5

Foreign Born (Los Angeles, CA)
"Early Warnings" and "Blood Oranges"
Person to Person (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

6

Preacher and the Knife (Brooklyn, NY)
"Ghost House"
Demo (Facebook )

7

8

Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco, CA)
"A Flag Unfurled" and "Ruby Go Home"
HELP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

9

Zoos of Berlin (Detroit, MI)
"Electrical Way"
Taxis (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )

NOTE

Several of the songs featured in this episode are available on a very good mix, made by Aquarium Drunkard called Weird Summer (more info and free download )

Special ALL Bicycles Episode!

1

Shonen Knife (Japan)
"Cycling is Fun"
Yama-No Attchan (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Pizzicato Five , My Little Airport

2

3

The Bicycles (Toronto, Canada)
"I'll Wait for You" and "Oh No, it's Love"
Oh No, it's Love (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Of Montreal , Elliott Smith

4

Be Your Own Pet (Nashville, TN)
"Bicycle Bicycle, You are My Bicycle"
Be Your Own Pet (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Grates

5

Shout Out Louds (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Bicycle"
Choke Soundtrack (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The LK , Peter Bjorn and John

6

Bye Bye Bicycle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
"Haby Bay"
Haby Bay (Single) (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Erlend Øye , The Tough Alliance , Plastic Operator

7

BMX (Queensland, Australia)
"WAR"
Myspace (Myspace )
similar: FM Belfast , CSS

8

Paul Kotheimer (Urbana, IL)
"Bicycle"
Song About Everything (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Wally Pleasant

9

Adron (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Bicicleta"
Adron (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
maybe a little like: Kat Edmonson

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from PBS 's Bill Moyers Journal about how bikes are used in the Congo ; there's also an ad for my awesome new bike (the inspiration for this episode) the Trek Soho ; and finally, there's a clip of Louis CK from Live in Houston .

Special ALL COVERS Episode! 1
Kat Edmonson (Austin, TX) "Summertime" Take to the Sky (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) originally by: George Gershwin 2
3
Meaghan Smith (Ontario, Canada), She & Him (Portland, OR) "Here Comes Your Man", "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" (500) Days of Summer Soundtrack (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) originally by: The Pixies , The Smiths 4
5
Stars (Montreal, Canada), Athlete (London, UK) "This Charming Man", "God Only Knows" Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show (Amazon ) originally by: The Smiths , The Beach Boys 6
Adam Green (feat. Ben Kweller ) (NYC) "Kokomo" Jessica EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) originally by: The Beach Boys 7
8
The Brother Egg (Portland, OR), Jens Kutilek (Berlin, Germany) "I Think I Need a New Heart", "Acoustic Guitar" Meaningless (Free Download , My Better Cleaned Up Mirror ) originally by: The Magnetic Fields 9
Marty & Elayne (Los Angeles, CA) "Staying Alive" The Best of Marty & Elayne at the Dresden (buy online ) originally by: Bee Gees 10
Dean & Britta (NYC) "Teen Angel" Back Numbers (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) originally by: Donovan
ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from MSNBC 's The Rachel Maddow Show (subscribe ) about the new Harry and Louise (watch ) as well as a clip of PBS ' Bill Moyers Journal from an essay about guns (from back in June) (subscribe ).

1
Sin Fang Bous (Reykjavík, Iceland) "A Fire to Sleep In" Clangour (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Sufjan Stevens , Seabear 2
3

FM Belfast (Reykjavík, Iceland) "Tropical" and "Par Avion" How to Make Friends (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Swimming in Speakers , CSS 4
5

Discovery (NYC) "Swing Tree" and "Osaka Loop Line" LP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) members of: Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot 6
7

Lettie (London, UK) "Mission" and "My Name Is" Age of Solo (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) 8
Moby (NYC) "Mistake" Wait for Me (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Groove Armada , Röyksopp 9
Air (France) "Do the Joy" Do the Joy (Single) (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Darkel , M83
ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe ). The first is from his interview with former Republican Sentaor, and host of a morning showon MSNBC , Joe Scarborough where has asks what I often wonder of republicans: "Don't you ever get tired of being on the wrong side of history? Wouldn't you like to be on the right side of it just once?". Also a couple of New Rules.

1
White Williams (NYC & Ohio) "New Violence" Smoke (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Wave Machines 2
3
Nouvelle Vague (France) "Blister in the Sun" and "Road to Nowhere" 3 (Amazon Import ) similar: Charlotte Gainsbourg , Julie Delpy 4
5
Cousin Cole & Pocketknife (Brooklyn, NYC) "I'll Keep it with Mine" and "Oh Yoko!!" Tambourine Dream (out of print, but try the music blogs ...) originals by: Nico and John Lennon 6
Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland) "I Can’t Stay Mad at You" Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Belle & Sebastian 7
The Queers (Portsmouth, NH) "I Can’t Stay Mad at You" Munki Brain (Amazon MP3 ) similar: The Dead Milkmen 8
9
Ferraby Lionheart (Los Angeles, CA) "Before We're Dead" and "Pure Imagination" Catch the Brass Ring (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Elvis Perkins , Johnny Flynn 10
Beirut (Brooklyn, NYC) "The Shrew" March of the Zapotec EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Andrew Bird , The Decemberists
ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Onion 's Video report on Obama changing his administration's plans following a visit to Denny's (watch ), and also clips from Todd Barry 's albums Falling Off the Bone (iTunes , eMusic ) & From Heaven (iTunes , eMusic ).

Special United Kingdom Plus a Little Bit from Iceland Episode! 1
Noah and the Whale (London, UK) "If My Album Sold a Million" The A Sides (out of print, but try the music blogs ...) similar: Jens Lekman 2
Would-Be-Goods (London, UK) "The Camera Loves Me" The Camera Loves Me (eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Tender Trap 3
Would-Be-Goods (London, UK) "Richard III" Brief Lives (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Pipas 4
Would-Be-Goods (London, UK) "Enemies of Promise" Eventyr (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Marine Girls 5
Wave Machines (Liverpool, UK) "The Greatest Escape We Ever Made" Wave If You're Really There (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: The Tough Alliance 6
Mint Royale (Manchester, UK) "Show Me" (feat. Pos from De La Soul ) Pop Is... (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Lo Fidelity Allstars , Fatboy Slim , The Chemical Brothers 7
Monty Python (London, UK) "Money" Monty Python Sings (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Eric Idle 8
Monty Python (London, UK) "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On the Radio" The Final Rip-Off (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Eric Idle 9
Belle & Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland) "The Magic of a Kind Word" The BBC Sessions (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Pelle Carlberg , Ballboy , God Help the Girl 10
Kitty Daisy & Lewis (London, UK) "Going Up the Country" Going Up the Country EP (eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Wanda Jackson 11
Kitty Daisy & Lewis (London, UK) "(Baby) Hold Me Tight" (Baby) Hold Me Tight / Buggin' Blues EP (Amazon MP3 ) similar: Carl Perkins 12
Seabear (Reykjavík, Iceland) "Teenage Kicks" Teenage Kicks / Piano Hands EP (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) cover of: The Undertones similar to: The Ladybug Transistor 13
Ballboy (Edinburgh, Scotland) "Cicily" I Worked on the Ships (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Pelle Carlberg
ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip of the king talking to peasants from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (watch ) as well as the sketches "The Money Program" (watch ) and "Architect Sketch" (watch ) from Monty Python's Flying Circus .

1

Plastic Operator (UK and Belgium)
"Couch"
Different Places (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Erlend Øye

2

3

The Whitest Boy Alive (Berlin, Germany)
"High on the Heels" and "Keep a Secret"
Rules (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Erlend Øye , Kings of Convenience

4

5

Soko (Bordeaux, France)
"The Dandy Cowboys" and "I'll Kill Her"
Not Sokute (not released in the US, but try the music blogs ...)
similar: Lykke Li , Laura Marling

6

The Superpowers (Brooklyn, NYC)
"AR #2"
Trance of Nations (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Nomo , The Budos Band

7

8

Plushgun (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Just Impolite" and "How We Roll"
Pins & Panzers (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Postal Service

9

Neko Case (Tucson, AZ)
"The Pharoahs"
Middle Cyclone (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe ) discussing a new statue of Ronald Reagan as well as a clip from the first week of the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien with guest Patton Oswalt discussing his recent introduction to fatherhood (watch ).

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Arcade Fire (Montreal, Canada)
"Wake Up"
Funeral (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
watch the trailer for: Where the Wild Things Are

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs (NYC)
"Skeletons" and "Dull Life"
It's Blitz! (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
on this album they're kinda similar to: Ladytron

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Austin Lace (Belgium)
"Hardly Know You" and "Absurd"
The Motherman (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon )
similar: The LK

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The Shins , Tracey Thorn /Jens Lekman , The National /St. Vincent
"Plenty is Never Enough", "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!", Sleep All Summer"
SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
covers of: Tenement Halls , Magnetic Fields , Crooked Fingers

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St. Vincent (Brooklyn, NYC)
"Actor Out of Work"
Actor (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
used to be in: The Polyphonic Spree

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This episode features clips from The Onion News Network 's coverage of Trekkies Bashing the new Star Trek film as "Fun, Watchable " and a Hot New Video Game That Consists Solely of Shooting People Point-Blank in the Face .

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God Help the Girl (Glasgow, Scotland) "Come Monday Night" God Help the Girl (free advance download ) similar: Stuart Murdoch , Belle & Sebastian , Camera Obscura 2
Stuart Murdoch (Glasgow, Scotland) "Another Saturday" Dark was the Night (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) also on album: The National , Yo La Tengo , Yeasayer , Andrew Bird 3
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Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland) "The Sweetest Thing" and "French Navy" My Maudlin Career (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Belle & Sebastian 5
Pelle Carlberg (Stockholm, Sweden) "Nicknames" The Lilac Time (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) track features: Karolina Komstedt of Club 8 6
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Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Stanford-le-Hope, England) "Thou Shalt Always Kill" and "Letter from God to Man" Angles (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: The Streets 8
Balthrop, Alabama (Brooklyn, NY) "The Butter Song" Cowboy Songs EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Neutral Milk Hotel 9
Balthrop, Alabama (Brooklyn, NY) "Subway Horns" Subway Songs EP (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: The Decemberists 10
The University of Rochester Midnight Ramblers (Rochester, NY) "Army" Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) cover of: Ben Folds Five / Ben Folds (Winston-Salem, NC)
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This episode features a birthday well-wishing recorded for me by Pelle Carlberg to mark my turning 30 last week. Thanks Pelle, you're the bestest! (And thanks to recent guest-host/my brother-in-law/friend since pre-school Chris for hooking that up!) The episode also featured an ad for the Libertarian Paradise Vacation Destination of Somalia by the Public Service Administration (watch it! ) as well as clips from HBO 's Realtime with Bill Maher 's (watch it ), and a tiny bit of Wanda Sykes at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner (watch it ).

Special Daniel's in Los Angeles, California Episode! 1
Quasi (Portland, OR) "California" Featuring "Birds" (iTunes , Amazon ) similar: The New Rags 2
The Snow Fairies (Philadelphia, PA) "Baja California" Get Married (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Pipas , Tullycraft , The Icicles 3
Call & Response (Oakand, CA) "California Floating in Space" Call & Response (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: The Postmarks , The Ladybug Transistor 4
Fight Like Apes (Dublin, Ireland) "I'm Beginning to Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 to Me" And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (Amazon ) similar: Envelopes , The Affair 5
The Ladybug Transistor (Brooklyn, NY) "California Stopover" Can't Wait Another Day (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Essex Green , 1900s 6
The Decemberists (Portland, OR) "Los Angeles, I'm Yours" Her Majesty the Decemberists (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Colin Meloy , Neutral Milk Hotel 7
Semisonic (Minneapolis, MN) "California" Feeling Strangely Fine (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Dishwalla , Marcy Playground 8
Luna (NYC) "California (All the Way)" Bewitched (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Dean & Britta , Galaxy 500 9
Jude (Boston, MA) "Out of L.A." No One is Really Beautiful (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Mike Doughty , Michael Penn
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This episode features clips from Bill Hicks album Arizona Bay (Amazon , iTunes ) where he mocks L.A. and also clips and music from the movie Swingers (Netflix , Amazon DVD , CD1 , CD2 ).

Special RECENT-Cure-RELATED-SONGS-AND-COVERS Episode!

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Brat (Burbank, CA)
"Easy Heaven"
Best of Bootie 2008 (free download )
mashup: The Cure 's "Just Like Heaven" vs. The Commodores 's "Easy"

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Elizabeth Harper , Dean & Britta (NYC), Devics (Los Angeles, CA)
"Pictures of You", "Friday I'm in Love", and "Catch"
Just Like Heaven - A Tribute to The Cure (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Luna

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Kat Edmonson (Austin, TX)
"Just Like Heaven"
Take to the Sky (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Low Standards

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Buddy (Los Angeles, CA)
"Sugar Girl"
Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Death Cab for Cutie

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Death Cab for Cutie (Seattle, WA)
"Love Song"
Sweetheart (iTunes )
similar: The Postal Service , Electric President

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The Watson Twins (Los Angeles, CA)
"Just Like Heaven"
Fire Songs (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins

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This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which you can watch in full here , and also a brief clip of New York Times ' Ethicist Randy Cohen talking about his new column called Moral of the Story on WNYC 's Brian Lehrer Show (subscribe ).

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Bishop Allen (Brooklyn, NY) "Shanghaied" Grrr... (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Voxtrot , Okkervil River , The Little Ones 2
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The New Rags (Brooklyn, NY) "Graduation", "The Cascades" and "On a Leash" Gotta Get Out of Here ("Graduation" is in eMusic ) similar: Caesars meets Scott Joplin 5
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Swimming in Speakers (Saranac Lake, NY) "In Knowing" and "Serve Them Well" Swimming in Speakers EP (Amazon MP3 ) similar: My Little Airport , Hello Seahorse! , Headlights 7 Ben Kweller (Brooklyn, NY) "Sawdust Man" Changing Horses (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Nik Freitas 8
Nik Freitas (Los Angeles, CA) "What You Become" Sun Down (iTunes , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Ben Kweller 9
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (Taylor, MS) "God Loves You, Michael Chang" The Good Feeling Music of... (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 ) similar: Jens Lekman
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This episode features clips from This American Life 's episode "The Wrong Side of History " . The segment in the clip is a comedy troupe from San Francisco called Kasper Hauser and the routine is "Phone Call to the 14th Century".

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Bell X1 (Celbridge, Ireland)
"The Great Defector"
Blue Lights on the Runway (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Dogs Die in Hot Cars , Talking Heads , Airborne Toxic Event

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Lisa Hannigan (Dunshaughlin, Ireland)
"Ocean and a Rock" and "I Don't Know"
Sea Sew (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Damien Rice

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Heartless Bastards (Cincinnati, Ohio)
"The Mountain"
The Mountain (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Magneta Lane

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The Bird and the Bee (Los Angeles, CA)
"Love Letter to Japan"
Ray Guns are Not Just the Future (iTunes , Amazon MP3 )
similar: The Submarines , Lykke Li

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M. Ward (Portland, OR)
"Never Had Nobody Like You"
Hold Time (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
featuring: Zooey Deschanel

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Mad Tea Party (Asheville, NC)
"I Never was a Cool One" and "I Went Out"
Found a Reason (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Asylum Street Spankers

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John.Wayne.Shot.Me (Netherlands)
"Hollywood" and "Everything Too Fast"
Fortran Catapult (iTunes , eMusic , Amazon MP3 )
similar: Polaris , Austin Lace

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This episode features clips from the New York Times ' Ethicist , Randy Coen , column podcast, covering the right thing to do in three situations: Your customer is being swindled , you see a friend in pornography online , and cats crap on your lawn .