First up Los Angeles'
Rilo Kiley have a new album called
Under the Blacklight (
iTunes,
Amazon) from which we heard "Silver Lining" which had to grow on me, but ended up being my favorite song on the record. Next Amsterdam's
Alamo Race Track did a song (that reminds me of
Ideal Free Distribution) called "Kiss Me Bar" followed by the title-track from their album
Black Cat John Brown (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon). Then Baltimore's "
absurdist electronic music composer/performer"
Dan Deacon did "The Crystal Cat" from his most recent release
Spiderman of the Rings (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon). Next "the thinking person's
Lilly Allen" (as listener Sam described her to me) aka Britain's
Kate Nash did "We Get On" from her debut album
Made of Bricks (
Amazon). And finally Canada's
The New Pornographers have a new record from which we heard the title-track
Challengers (
iTunes,
Amazon).
This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher talking about eating meat and it's effect on the environment (podcast).