First up, we heard Brooklyn's own
Au Revoir Simone with "A Violent Yet Flammable World" from their new album
The Bird of Music (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon MP3), which almost sounds like it could have been on
The Bird and the Bee's album. Then was fellow New York City singer-songwriter
Elvis Perkins doing the best song off his new album
Ash Wednesday (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon MP3) called "May Day!". Next was a cut from a pretty good new
Bob Marley remix album called
Roots, Rock, Remixed (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon MP3) by
Afrodisiac Sound System. The song we heard was a remixed "Soul Shakedown Party". Then we heard two songs from Sweden's
Jens Lekman's brand new album from called
Night Falls Over Kortedala (
iTunes,
eMusic,
Amazon). We heard "A Postcard to Nina" and "Your Arms Around Me". And finally fellow Swede and sometimes
Nick Drake sound-double
Jose Gonzalez did a great song called "How Low" from his great new album
In Our Nature (
iTunes,
Amazon MP3).
This episode features clips from the October 9th episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing how George W. Bush describes actions rather than actually doing them.