First up,
TSiMH favorites, New Zealand's
The Brunettes have a new album and EP coming out before too long, and they've posted a new cut on their
Myspace page, it's called "Her Hairagami Set" and it's both a departure from their earlier stuff, and also totally great. Next, also from New Zealand, the very fine
Phoenix Foundation did "Let Me Die a Woman" from their American debut
Horsepower (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon). Then
Everything But the Girl pre-curser and quality 80's British girl-group
Marine Girls did the song "Friday" from their two-albums-as-one collection
Lazy Ways/Beach Party (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon) as a lead-in for the UK's
Art Brut who were clearly influenced by them. We heard "People in Love" from their new album It's a
Bit Complicated (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon). Then we heard three songs from one of my favorite instrumental records. The band is Canadian ex-rapper
Jason Beck. He now lives in Paris and goes by
Chilly Gonzales'. But his seemingly-unlikely side project is Chopin-y solo piano music where he goes by simply
Gonzales on a record simply called
Solo Piano (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon). We heard "Gogol", "Meischeid" and "Salon Salloon". And finally, mostly because I wanted to promote them again now that they are on tour and their 3-track EP is
finally available for purchase in Other Music's new digital store, we heard NYC's up-and-coming incrediband
Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" mashed-up with
Clipse's "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)" by
Les Bank Robbers (you can download it from his
Myspace page).
This episode features a clip from the podcast-edition of New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman's article Authentic? Never Mind (read it, subscribe).