First up, brand new, awesome, music from Portland's The Decemberists, we heard "Sons and Daughters" from their new album The Crane Wife (iTunes, Amazon). Next was the UK's new indie rock sunshine kids The Fratellis, doing "Flathead" from their debut album Costello Music (iTunes UK, Amazon US Pre-order). Then Beck did his most-likely-top-40-but-I-don't-care song "Think I'm in Love" from his new record The Information (iTunes, Amazon). Followed by Los Angeles' indie rock band The Solids, who have yet to release an album, but have plenty of, ahem, solid tracks for free on their site, including starwars cover "Ewok Celebration". And finally, Brooklyn's low-fi indie band Elephant Parade did "Goodbye" from their debut Bedroom Recordings EP (order from their site).This week's show features a clip from Realtime with Bill Maher on HBO about right-wing "think tanks" who are ALWAYS wrong (it can be seen here).

(SPECIAL GUEST-HOSTED EPISODE WITH LING!) On this week's show, my friend Ling brings his fascinating tastes in "antique pop" to my fine TSiMH listeners! First he played Ameircan singer Ruth Etting doing "Button Up Your Overcoat" from the collection Two Cents a Dance (Amazon). Next Helen Kane (aka Betty Boop) did "That's My Weakness Now" recorded in 1928 and found on the collection Boop-Boop-A-Doop: 27 Original Mono Recordings 1928-1951 (Amazon). Next Germany's Lizzi Waldmüller did "Du Hast Glück bei den Frau'n, Bel Ami" (roughly translated meaning: "You Have Luck with the Ladies, Bel Ami" which can be found on Was Eine Frau Bei Nacht Verspricht (iTunes, Amazon.de). Then Chinese-born, Japanese-voiced Li Xiang Lan (aka Yamaguchi Yoshiko) did "Ye Lai Xiang". Next Austrio-Hungarian-born Marta Eggerth did "Was Kümmert Mich die Ganze Welt" (translated meaning "What is the Whole World to Me?") from the collection Saemtliche veroeffentlichte Schallplatten 1931-1933 (Amazon.de). Next another German, Eva Busch did "Gruß und Kuß" (translated meaning "Regard and Kiss") from a collection called Zauberlied (Amazon.de). Then Zhou Xuan did "Ye Shanghai" (meaning "Shanghai Nights") recorded in 1946 and can be found on Romantic Chinese Hits of the 1930s and 1940s (iTunes). And finally Rina Ketty did her 1938 song "J'attendrai" from Les Etoiles de la Chanson (iTunes, Amazon.de).

(SPECIAL CANADA EPISODE!) First up Vancouver indie pop outfit The Salteens did "You Stood Out from the Crowd" from their new album Let Go of Your Bad Days (iTunes, Amazon). They have a new record coming out soon, so brace yourself. Next popular Canadian front man Carl Newman of New Pornographers fame acting in his A.C. Newman persona did "Secretarial" from his album The Slow Wonder (iTunes, Amazon). Then Vancouver's alt-country radiogram did a great cover of New Order's "Love Vigilantes" from their album All the Way Home (iTunes, Amazon). Next long-time favorites Cub also from Vancouver did "My Chinchilla" from either their Mauler (Amazon) or Betti-Cola (iTunes, Amazon) album. Then a band not from Canada, but rather Georgia, however, as I spent the weekend in Montreal, we heard Of Montreal with "Requiem for O.M.M.2 (United States of Electronica Remix)" one of the better remixes found on their recently released (if sub-par) remixes album Satanic Twins (iTunes). Next Toronto's Stars did "Calendar Girl" from their most recent album Set Yourself On Fire (iTunes, Amazon). Then Montreal's Columbus did "Free Girl" from their Debut EP (scratch records). And finally Vancouver Nights, which is Sara Lapsley who hails from — you'll never guess — Vancouver, did "Two Spirited" from her self-titled debut album (iTunes, Amazon). This episode contains clips of Democratic strategist Skip Schecter taking some GOP hack behind the shed and spanking her. Watch the whole clip here. There is also a clip from MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann where they play a montage of ridiculous GOP finger-pointing about Mark Foley. Watch it all here.

First up, NYC's The Hong Kong did "Tongue Tied" from their forthcoming Slow Motion Gets Around album, but you can download it now from their website. And be sure to check out the video which co-stars Dean Wareham of TSiMH favorite Luna fame. Next Brooklyn's Ben Kweller did his decidedly "Falling"-esque song "Until I Die" from his new self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon). Then the notoriously overlooked late-60's pop band The Free Design did "An Elegy" which can be found on the collection The Redesigned Originals, Recorded by The Free Design (1967-70) (iTunes). Then, just for the hell of it, Jennifer Trynin did the hit "Better Than Nothing" from her 1994 album Cockamamie (iTunes, Amazon). She also has a recent book out called Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be (Amazon). And finally the incredibly Billie Holiday-sounding Madeleine Peyroux did a great cover of Elliott Smith's "Behind the Bars" from her 2004 album Careless Love (iTunes, Amazon). She also has a brand new album that's worth checking out called Half the Perfect World (iTunes, Amazon). This episode features clips from the audio book version of F.U.B.A.R. America's Right-Wing Nightmare (iTunes, Amazon) by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill read by Sam Seder, largely because of the recent news involving Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL).

First up TSiMH favorites Toronto's The Hidden Cameras have a new album Awoo (iTunes, Amazon) which came out recently and we heard two short songs from it: "Learning the Lie" and "Wandering". Next fellow Canadians Vancouver's The Organ who sound amazingly like an all-girl Smiths did "Brother" from their quality 2004 album Grab That Gun (iTunes, Amazon). Then we heard several songs by Maggie Gyllenhaal from the paltry soundtrack (iTunes, Amazon) for the great movie Happy Endings (Amazon, IMDB, Netflix). We heard "I Can't Wait", "How Lucky Am I", and a fantastic cover of the Billy Joel classic "Just the Way You Are" (iTunes). We also heard a clip of Los Angeles' Sign of the Fox who originally crafted "How Lucky Am I" for their self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon).

First up New Jersey's predominant indie rock band Yo La Tengo did "Mr Tough" from their brand new album I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (iTunes, Amazon). Next New York City's Brazilian Girls did "Last Call" from their brand new album Talk To La Bomb (iTunes, Amazon). Then Austin's veteran singer/songwriter Sara Hickman did a fantastic cover of Tears for Fears "Mad World" (tho, it sounds more like a cover of Gary Jules' version from Donnie Darko) from her new album Motherlode (iTunes, Amazon). And finally fellow Texans, tho from Dallas, The Polyphonic Spree did a great cover of Nirvana's "Lithium" from a new EP called Wait (iTunes). This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about cable news' use of the question mark. Watch the whole clip at One Good Move.

(Special Music Released on 9/11/2001 Episode) Curiously, several of my most eagerly anticipated and favorite records of 2001 were released that year's most famous day: 9/11. On this weeks show, we listen to music I bought on 9/11/2001. First up, California's fantastic ex-band Beulah does "Cruel Minor Change" from their stellar album The Coast if Never Clear (iTunes, Amazon). Then my favorite band Brooklyn's own They Might Be Giants did their lovely cover of Georgie Fame's "Yeah! Yeah!" from their album Mink Car (Amazon). Followed by the great UK electronic group Groove Armada who's "Super Stylin'" was found on their Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) (iTunes, Amazon). Tho we heard the "radio edit" which can be found on the Single (Amazon). Then Ben Folds, who's solo career launched on 9/11, did "Annie Waits" from his quality record Rockin' the Suburbs (iTunes, Amazon) Ben Folds also, by the way, has a new collection of recent work coming out soon. And finally Austin's The American Analog Set did the title-track from their album Know by Heart (iTunes, Amazon). This week's episode features the poem called "For the Falling Man" by Annie Farnsworth read by Garrison Keillor for The Writers Almanac, as well as a notorious clip from the American Taliban's own Jerry Falwell about who was responsible for the attacks of that day. Also, it was The Beatles' album With the Beatles that was released November 22nd, 1963.

First up New York City's Ratatat did "Wildcat" from their brand new album Classics (iTunes, Amazon) which I think is a notably better album than their previous one. Next London-based Frenchie Fabienne Delsol (known more commonly as 'the lead singer for The Bristols') did "When My Mind is Not Live" from her album No Time for Sorrows (iTunes, Amazon) which despite how it sounds came out in 2004 not the mid-60's. Then the Brazilian phenomenon that is CSS (not 'Cascading Style Sheets', but 'Cansei de Ser Sexy' which is Portuguese for 'I'm Tired of Being Sexy') did their superb hit "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" from their self-titled debut album (iTunes, Amazon). And finally Sweden's Peter, Bjorn and John did "Young Folks" which features former lead singer for The Concretes, Victoria Bergsman (who has a new project called Taken By Trees) from their new album Writer's Block (iTunes, Amazon). iTunes has a new, silly, set of playlists for "back to school" so you youngin's can know what clique you belong in. Apparently TSiMH is in the "hipster" clique (as two songs from this week's very show are in said playlist, along with many songs I've played in the past), tho I seriously doubt that label myself. For instance, I don't own any white belts at all. This week's episode features a clip of Geogre W. Bush being retarded. Watch it.

(Note: Kelli "Heartily Approves" of this episode of TSiMH.) First up, Brooklyn's unique One Ring Zero did a fairly non-representative track called "This Ain't No Love Song" from their brand new record Wake Them Up (Amazon, iTunes). Then SiMH favorite Norway's Erlend Øye has a new release, the band this time round is The Whitest Boy Alive, we heard "Fireworks" from the new record Dreams (iTunes, Amazon). Next Sweden's Teddybears have reinvented themselves with a new record coming out in a couple of weeks called Soft Machine (Amazon) which features guest appearances by a wide variety of peeps, including Iggy Pop who performs the song "Punkrocker" which is one of two tracks available now in iTunes. Then France's Nouvelle Vague did a great cover of Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon" from their brand new, purchase-worthy album Bande a Part (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, another song from the new One Ring Zero album, this one more representative of their sound, and also very good: "Here Come the Mannequins." This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about Bush's summer (watch the whole un-edited clip at One Good Move), as well as a clip from the August 22nd episode of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio about the firing of an 81 year old Sunday School teacher.

First up, Australia's Treetops did their single "Gospel" from the EP by the same name (Amazon). Next was Albany's The Gazetteers doing "Bedroom Community" from their debut album Territory Songs (iTunes, Amazon). (Note: you can download this song for free from their label's site.) Then Minnesota's indie pop/folk band The Owls did "Air" from their album Our Hopes and Dreams (iTunes, Amazon). Next Portland's Boy Crazy did "Stark Street" from their 2001 album Foreign Words (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, since I have a soft-spot in my heart for the Muppets, I thought I should let you know about something pretty amazing that my friend Jodi alerted me to. An online Muppet music archive! They have TONS of Muppet music which has been out of print for decades, that has never been released on CD at all, and more. And all of it is just free to download, for as long as they don't get shut down I guess. Much of it is cheesy and doesn't really hold up to the test of time, but other stuff is pure genius. We heard a favorite of mine, a cover of Billy Joel's classic "New York State of Mind" performed by Rolf the Dog on Ol' Brown Ears is Back (go to download).

(SPECIAL SOUTHEAST-ASIAN EPISODE!) First up, essential Bollywood classic "Jann Pehechaan Ho" by Mohammed Rafi as featured in the movie and on the soundtrack for Ghost World (iTunes, Amazon), which makes getting your hands on that quality cut simple. Next Los Angeles' faux-Cambodian awesomeness Dengue Fever did "Tip My Canoe" from their album Escape from Dragon House (iTunes, Amazon). Next another great Bollywood track, remixed to be even better, "Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha (Remix)" by the UK's The Bollywood Brass Band from a compilation album called Funkadelica - Dancing to a Different Drum (iTunes, Amazon), which is surprisingly good. Then we heard a great cover of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" by Sodsai Chaengkij which is my favorite song on Thai Beat a Go-Go Vol. 2 (iTunes, Amazon) which features Thai bands from the 60's doing Go-Go music. Yes, it's greatness. Then Deng Bai Ying did "Shuang Shuang Yan" from the soundtrack to In the Mood for Love (Amazon). And finally we heard "Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint" from the soundtrack to the Spike Lee Joint Inside Man (iTunes, Amazon). The song is a remix by Panjabi MC featuring Sukhwinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi performing the classic song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" by A. R. Rahman for the film Dil Se.

First up, Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn's first band, the UK's Marine Girls did "In Love" from a collection of their early-80's-but-non-early-80's-sounding songs called Lazy Ways / Beach Party (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard two fabulous tracks from the new fabulous The Pipettes album We are the Pipettes (iTunes, Amazon). We heard "Because It's Not Love (But It's Still a Feeling)" and "One Night Stand". Then New Hampshire's The Juan Maclean did "Give Me Every Little Thing" from his 2005 album Less Than Human (iTunes, Amazon). And finally she may have new music out, but Kirsty Hawkshaw's old band Opus III (also from the UK) was pretty quality too. We heard take-me-back-to-the-early-90s hit "It's a Fine Day" from the album Mind Fruit (Amazon). There are several remixes in iTunes, as well as a vocals only version, which is kinda cool, on a compilation called Pillows and Prayers vol. 2 (iTunes), which also happens to feature the Marine Girls. Go figure. This episode features a clip from the August 4th episode of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio about Pat Robertson.

First up, Sweden's indie pop Komeda did "Happyment" from their 1998 album What Makes it Go? (iTunes, Amazon) which is their best. Next we heard two short songs by UK pop duo Pipas' best album A Cat Escaped (iTunes, Amazon), 2002 "Rock and-or Roll" and "Barbapapa". Then for something completely different, perhaps the best, certainly one of the most prolific, Brazilian samba pioneer Nelson Cavaquinho did "Nao Vem" from his acustic bossa nova record from 1977 called Quatro Grandes Do Samba (Amazon). And finally a couple of songs from Athens, Georgia' Casper & the Cookies' new album The Optimist's Club (HHBTM, Stick Figure). We heard "Barking in the Garden of Ill Repute" and "Duchamp's Camera". To finish out this episode of TSiMH, another track from Komeda's What Makes it Go? (iTunes), we heard "It's Alright, Baby". This week's episode features two clips featuring the evil, crazy bitch Ann Coulter. The first from the Late Show with David Letterman (watch), the second from the CBC's program The Fifth Estate hosted by veteran journalist Bob McKeown (watch the whole special).

Special Extra-Long, SONGS You Might Have Missed By Bands Often Played On TSiMH Episode!) First up Florida's Electric President did "I'm Not the Lonely Son (I'm the Ghost)" from the second of their recently released EPs You Have the Right to Remain Awesome (iTunes, Juno Records UK). Next NYC's defunct Luna has released a collection of the bands covers over the years cleverly called Lunafied (iTunes), many of which having been hard to obtain in the past. We heard a cover of Blondie's "In the Flesh". Then Sweden's The Concretes (who incidentally, 5 hours after this show went live announced the departure of key Concrete and lead singer Victoria Bergsman, what horrible news...) they also have a new awesome album of course, but did you catch the singles that have come with it? We heard "The First Time" a B-Side from their On the Radio single (iTunes, Amazon), but there are other quality previously unreleased tracks on their Chosen One single (iTunes, Amazon) too. Next Scotland's Camera Obscura have seen the release of their new album Let's Get Out of This Country (iTunes, Amazon) I mentioned was coming out a little while back, and it is of course glorious. We heard "Come Back Margaret", which was great live. Next fellow Scots Belle & Sebastian did "Baby Jane" which can be found on their new EP White Collar Boy (iTunes, Amazon). Then Sweden's Jens Lekman who is on tour in the U.S. right now did "You are the Light (Reprise)" from You are the Light single (iTunes, Amazon). Next the UK's preeminent dj Fatboy Slim released a best of recently called Why Try Harder (iTunes, Amazon) which in addition to the loads of quality you'd expect has a couple of previously unreleased cuts, most notably "That Old Pair of Jeans". And finally Austin's Voxtrot did "Four Long Days" from their most recent EP Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives (Amazon, insound). This week's episode features a bunch of clips. One from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which can be seen in full at One Good Move. As well as a couple of clips from one of the last episodes of Air America Radio's The Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder (Janeane has left the show for good, hopefully Sam won't follow) who in the first of the two clips was basically all just Jack Hitt. We also heard a clip from The Rachel Maddow Show with Kent Jones, also on AAR.

First up Australian mix-master Gotye (gore-ti-yeah) did "Learnalilgivinanlovin" from his new record Like Drawing Blood (online, digital) which you should buy right now. Next was New York City's own 14-member, all-female accordion ensemble The Main Squeeze Orchestra doing a cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which you can download for free from their website. Then we heard a great track from the equally great new Sufjan Stevens album The Avalanche - Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album (iTunes, Amazon) called "The Henney Buggy Band". And finally we heard ex-Ben Folds Five drummer turned singer/songwriter Darren Jessee's band Hotel Lights' version of "End of the Tour" from the new substantially-less-than-awesome They Might Be Giants tribute album Hello Radio: The Songs of They Might Be Giants (iTunes, Amazon). This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, addressing the gap between the rich and poor with John Hodgman. You can watch the whole un-edited clip at One Good Move.

First up, New Jersey-bred Daniel Smith has a new album under the name Danielson which is the best to date from the varied Danielson Familie, et al bands. We heard "Did I Step On Your Trumpet" from Ships (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard two songs Chicago's Office (who are playing this week in NYC), "Dominos" and "Oh My" both from their 2005 album Q&A (iTunes). Then Los Angeles' The Elected (a large part of Rilo Kiley, but with no Jenny Lewis) did "The Bank and Trust" from their newest album Sun, Sun, Sun (iTunes, Amazon). And finally the UK's Boy Least Likely To did a fun cover of George Michael's "Faith" which can be heard on their website, or downloaded from the internets and will probably eventually make its way onto a compilation or something. This week's episode featured two clips of George W. Bush being retarded, as usual.

First up, Brooklyn's playful indie-pop band Enon did "Knock That Door" from their b-sides and rarities collection from 2005 called Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard two short-yet-excellent songs by ex-Moldy Peach Adam Green; "Nat King Cole" and "Novotel", both from his new album Jacket Full of Danger (iTunes (no longer active for some reason), Amazon). Then we heard two more shortish-yet-excellent songs from the impossible-to-classify Danger Mouse/Cee-Lo Green collaboration that is Gnarls Barkley. First "Gone Daddy Gone" then "Crazy" both from their recent album St. Elsewhere (iTunes, Amazon). And finally we heard Paris' astoundingly Stereo Total-esque Prototypes did "Je Ne Te Connais Pas" from their self-titled U.S. debut release (iTunes, Amazon).This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about how the U.S. narrowly avoided a fake terror threat. You can watch the whole un-edited clip at One Good Move.

First up, Dallas' promising indie pop band The Chemistry Set did "Born in Bloom" from their recent album Blue Monsters (online). Then Michigan's indie staple Saturday Looks Good to Me has released an enormous 30 track collection of old tracks and demos and stuff (priced to own at just $9.99 in iTunes) called Sound On Sound (iTunes, Amazon). From that hit-or-miss record we heard "Parking Lot Blues." Next Germany's Klee did one of their few english versions of their songs "This Is for Everyone" from their new album Honeysuckle (iTunes, Amazon - preorder). And finally the quality bluegrass band Iron Horse did an awesome version of Modest Mouse' "Polar Opposites" from an equally awesome album comprised entire of humble rodent covers, Pickin' on Modest Mouse: A Bluegrass Tribute (Amazon). An above average contribution to the long-running, prolific Pickin' on... series.

First up, an old favorite from Dallas' The Old 97's, we heard "Oppenheimer" from their 1999 album Fight Songs (iTunes, Amazon), a song which is conspicuously absent from their soon-to-be released Best of The Old 97's album (Amazon), perhaps because it wasn't technically a "hit," but whatever. Next was Michigan's Mason Proper who did two short songs "Life's Cornucopia" and "Lights Off" from their recent album There is a Moth in Your Chest (iTunes, Amazon). Then Norman, Oklahoma's (didn't I recently challenge someone to name another band from OK?) Evangelicals (no, not the bad kind, the band!) did "What an Actress Does Best" from their recent album So Gone (iTunes, Amazon). And finally was Austin's Voxtrot doing "Wrecking Force" from their debut self-titled EP (iTunes, Amazon). Note that they will be playing June 30th at prospect park bandshell during celebrate brooklyn. This episode featured a clip from The Colbert Report's "Better Know a District" series where congressman Lynn Westmoreland is interviewed, which you can see all of on One Good Move.

First up, we heard a remix of the ledgendary Ennio Morricone's "L´Estasi Dell´Oro" ("The Ecstasy of Gold") from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack as mixed by French dou (thanks to listener Sam from Arkansas for figuring out more about them and informing me) Bandini which can be found on a collection called Ennio Morricone Remixes, Vol. 2 (iTunes, Amazon). Next Seattle's teen-sisters Chloe and Asya who are Smoosh did "Free to Stay" from their brand new album by the same name (iTunes, Amazon). Then the UK's ex-Hefner front-man Darren Hayman is back with new music, we heard "Caravan Song" from his record Table for One (iTunes, Amazon). And finally London's newest up-and-coming pop sensation Lily Allen did "LDN" which is to be released on her upcoming album Alright Still (Amazon) next month. You can download her first "mix tape" here, and her second one here. This week's episode features a clip from Patton Oswalt which can be downloaded via Comedy Central's Live at Gotham video podcast (iTunes).

First up, former Luna bandmates and New York City residents Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham did "Night Nurse" from their album L'Avventura (Amazon). They have a new album coming out soon, so you know you'll hear something from that before too long. There's also a new documentary about Luna called Tell Me Do You Miss Me (Amazon) coming out on DVD soon. Next was Portland's The Helio Sequence did "Don't Look Away" from their album Love and Distance (iTunes, Amazon). Then Los Angeles' Playdate did "High Life" from their self-titled EP (iTunes, Amazon). Then Scotland's quality Ballboy did "I've Got Pictures of You in Your Underwear" from his record Club Anthems (iTunes, Amazon). And finally 1960's R&B great Bettye Swann did "Don't You Ever Get Tired (of Hurting Me)?" which I got from an album named for her (iTunes, Amazon). This episode has two stand-up comedy clips from Comedy Central's video podcast Live at Gotham (iTunes), we heard Chris Porter and Andy Borowitz.

(Special All Request, 2-Year Anniversary Episode!) The first request I ever got from a guy named Harry, the band is Brazzaville, and he requested a track from the 2004 album Welcome to Brazzaville (iTunes, Amazon), as such we heard "Foreign Disaster Days." Next was a couple of songs requested by Ritmo Latino host and friend of show Neil Hohmann. We heard "Tardes de Cafe" by La Buena Vida which can be found on a compilation called Sevensummers - International Pop, Vol. 2 (iTunes). Also "Boombox" by the NYC based Mosquitos from their self-titled 2003 album (iTunes, Amazon). We also heard a good call from Johnny in Ireland who suggested The Chalets who he described as "Le Tigre meets the B-52s" which is a great description. We heard "Love Punch" from their most recent album Check In (iTunes, Amazon). Next a request from William who recommended Melborn, Australia's The Beautiful Girls, they did "Less" from their 2004 album Learn Yourself (iTunes, Amazon). Then another request from very long ago from a listener named Andrew, he wanted to hear the Brooklyn-based band Johnny Society, so they did "Reach Me" from their recent album Coming to Get You (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard a mashup of Green Day, Travis and Oaisis requested by Glenn from Virginia with the song "Boulevard of Broken Songs" which has not been officially released of course, but is downloadable from here as of the date for this show. Then as recommended by Rob Walker (author of a fantastic blog about the song "St. James Infirmary" and New Orleans) we heard The Hot 8 Brass Band doing a great rendition of "Fly Away" from their album Rock with The Hot 8 (Amazon). Then we heard a request from my girlfriend Kelli who wanted me to play Sweden's pop great Jens Lekman's "You are the Light" from his album When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (iTunes, Amazon) (and you know I couldn't say no to that, not that I would have wanted to). Then Anders Dahl (who despite his name isn't the famous botanist, opting for great Flash work instead) requested fellow Swede Stina Nordenstam, so we heard her song "Get On with Your Life" from her album The World Is Saved (iTunes, Amazon). Next was a request from the artist himself, we heard Peter Dutton from Derbyshire, UK doing what I think is his best song to date "Down to the Sea" from his 3rd EP which can be downloaded for free from his site. And finally we heard long time listener Graham McCarey's request for his band theoceanfloor doing their song "Spill" from their The Whole Animal EP (online). This episode features clips from Patton Oswalt's album Feeling Kinda Patton (iTunes, Amazon) as well as a clip from Tom Mabe's Revenge on the Telemarketers Round Two (iTunes, Amazon).

First up, German duo The Happy Couple did their great pop song "Another Sunny Day" from their Fools in Love EP (Amazon). Then Italian DJ Nicola Conte did the bossa-nova-tastic "Jet Sounds" from, among other places, the album Bossa Per Due (Amazon). Next Isobel Campbell's precursor Margo Guryan an did "Sun" from her 1968 lost-gem album Take a Picture (iTunes, Amazon). Then Cleveland's Bears did "Everywhere" from their self-titled debut (online). And finally as a bonus song, we heard a new song by Camera Obscura called "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" which they put out as the first single (iTunes, Amazon) from their new album Let's Get Out of This Country (Amazon) which comes out June 6th, and you'll be hearing more from because it's bloody awesome.The week's episode features a clip from PBS' NOW with David Brancaccio where he interviews Economist writer Vijay Vaitheeswaran.

First up Brisbane, Australia's fun, modern-punk rockers The Grates did "19-20-20" from their very recent album Gravity Won't Get You High (Amazon). Next, Los Angeles' up-and-coming pop band The Little Ones did "Cha Cha Cha" from their debut EP Sing Song (iTunes). Then Miami-born, New York City based Ursula 1000 (aka Alex Gimeno) did "Kaboom!" from the recent album Here Comes Tomorrow (iTunes, Amazon). Lawrence, Kansas' Koufax-esque Kelpie did "Add Orable Ord" from their album Hey Friends, It's... (iTunes, Amazon). This episode marks the debut of my new microphone, the Audio-Technica AT4047! Also, it features a clip from Al Gore on Saturday Night Live which can be seen in full here.

First up, a song I've been dying to put on for a while now, but kept waiting patiently for it to be made available in a longer, more costly form... but I've given up. So here it is now: the band Behavior (along with Andrea Revel) did this great song "Clap! Shake! Jump!" which was apparently in an Old Navy ad, but can be downloaded in it's two minute from here for free. Then a band from Austin... er, make that Nashville, called Oh No! Oh My! did "I Have No Sister" from their brand new, self-titled debut (insound, online). Next we heard a couple of songs from the Brooklyn-based, multicultural band Nous Non Plus, first the rockin' "Lawnmower Boy" then a tamer song called "Fille atomique" both from their self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon) which came out at the end of last year. And finally my man DJ Rx finally got cd's out the door, and I was pleased to discover an extra new song I hadn't heard before on it. "I Have HIV/AIDS" is from RX '08 which you can (and should) order from his website now. This episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about the Bush administration and the national oil reserves (which can be seen in full here) and another from Realtime with Bill Maher on HBO about the myth of social mobility and the reality of the American Dream (which can be seen here).

First up, Detroit's quality indie pop outfit PAS/CAL did "The Bronze Beached Boys (Come On Let's Go)" from their 2003 The Handbag Memoirs EP (iTunes, Amazon). Then the my absolute favorite New York band pretending to be a Japanese pop band from the 60's, Gaijin a Go Go did "Soul-chan" from their brand spankin' new album Go-Go Boot Camp which as best I can tell isn't available online yet, but I'm sure it will be soon, so keep checking their site. Next Los Angeles' oft-Nico-esque Lavender Diamond did "Rise in the Springtime" from their lovely The Cavalry of Light EP (online store). And finally Los Angeles-based duet The Submarines did "Peace and Hate" from their debut Declare a New State (iTunes).

(Special extra-long all-New Orelans music episode!) First up, Lafayette's Stanley Dural known as Buckwheat Zydeco started us off right with his version of Fats Domino's classic "Walking to New Orleans" from his album Classics (iTunes, Amazon). Then a super fun version of "House of the Rising Sun" as covered by Charlie Waller and The Country Gentlemen from their album 45 Years of Memories (iTunes, Amazon). Next Seattle's Harvey Danger did a cover of Randy Newman's 70's era classic "Louisiana, 1927" live at a Katrina benefit concert, you can download their latest album (which doesn't include this song) for free from their website, here. Then Coney Island born, folk icon, Arlo Guthrie did Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans" which can be found on the worthy compilation Sing America (iTunes, Amazon) (among other places). Next was the awfully prolific R&B pioneer Dave Bartholomew doing "When the Saints Go Marching in Boogie" which can be found on his recent release 1952-1955 (Amazon). Then the seminal Louis Armstrong did "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" which can be found on any number of collections, like Falling in Love with Louis Armstrong (iTunes, Amazon). Then we heard another take on "The House of the Rising Sun" this time by British Columbia's indie favorites The Be Good Tanyas from their album Chinatown (iTunes, Amazon). And finally we finished this episode with the father of Rock 'n Roll himself Chuck Berry doing "Oh Louisiana" which is unfortunately not available on CD that I know of, but rather on his 1971 LP San Francisco Dues. This episode features clips from Air America Radio's Mother Jones Radio, and their interview with Chris Kromm of The Institute for Southern Studies about the state of post-Katrina New Orleans. Listen to the whole show/interview here. Also, if you liked this episode you should check out this episode from a couple years back, it's got more songs I like from Louisiana.

First up, Los Angeles duo (which reminds me of Husky Rescue mixed with Portishead) Bitter:Sweet doing their song "The Mating Game" from their debut album by the same name (iTunes, Amazon). Next was THE essential Japanese girl-group Shonen Knife with their song "Forest Walk" from their brand new album Genki Shock! (iTunes, Amazon). Then new indie rockers from Oklahoma called Starlight Mints did "Inside of Me" from their brand new album (which comes out next week) Drowaton (iTunes, Amazon). And finally Mr. Airplane Man did "How Long" (a song that kinda reminds me of Mazzy Star) from their 2003 album C'mon DJ (iTunes, Amazon). This week's show has a clip from a CNN report about William Sloane Coffin, who sadly passed away last week. You can watch the whole segment here.

First up, Canada's new, most-promising band, Islands did "Rough Gem" which is hands down the best song off their new album Return to the Sea (iTunes, Amazon). Then, the band from which Islands formed, The Unicorns (who are also from Montreal) did "Tuff Luff" from their 2003 record Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (iTunes, Amazon). Then Seattle's Helvetia (hel-veet-z-ah) did a brand new song called "Beezlebub (Leave Me Be)" from their brand new record The Clever North Wind (Amazon). And finally an oldie but goodie by New York City's own Black 47. We heard the song "Different Drummer" from their 1994 album Home of the Brave (Amazon). This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about how praying has scientifically been found to have no effect. You can watch the whole un-edited clip at One Good Move.

First up, brand spankin new, totally awesome music from Sweden's The Concretes. We heard "Change in the Weather" from their brand new album In Colour (iTunes, Amazon) which comes out tomorrow. Then another awesome new song by the UK's lovely The Pipettes, we heard their new single "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me" from the single by the same name (iTunes, Amazon). Then another UK band, Art Brut did "Good Weekend" from their album Bang Bang Rock & Roll (iTunes, Amazon). Then we took things down a notch with a song by ex-Moldy Peach Kimya Dawson who has a new album coming out next week called Remember That I Love You, we heard a song from it about the unimaginably tragic Tsunami in December of 2004, the song is called "12/26" and can be downloaded for free from her site, here. This week's episode has a clip from what I think may be the single funniest standup comedy routine ever performed, that is "Steak" by Patton Oswalt from his album Feelin' Kinda Patton (iTunes, Amazon)

SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG ALL ICELANDIC MUSIC EPISODE! First up, straight out of Reykjavik in the 1960's the band Flowers did "Glugginn" (in English, that's "The Window") from a cd called Undarlegt Með Unga Menn (buy online). Next Iceland's answer to Daft Punk, Apparat Organ Quartet doing "Global Capital" from their selt-titled 2003 debut album (Amazon). You can watch a PBS Frontline World segment that features Apparat Organ Quartet here. Then Rúnk did "Wall Street" from their 2003 album Ghengi Dahls (online import, buy online). Next was the pairing of Magga Stína and Valgeir Guðjóns for the song "Aðeins Eina Nótt" (in english "Only One Night") from a compilation album from 1997 called Megasarlög (buy online). Then you couldn't have an all Icelandic music episode of TSiMH without playing Bjork, so we heard "Amphibian (The Film Mix)" from the excelent soundtrack to Being John Malkovich (Amazon). And finally, we finished this episode with another song from the 60's, this one sounds almost indistinguishable from Combustible Edison, but is 100% Icelandic. It's by Ellý Vilhjálms and it's called "Sveitin Milli Sanda" and it can be found on a two disc "best of" collection spanning 35 years called Allt Mitt Líf: Úrval Dœgursöngva Frá Árunum '60-'95 (buy online) which came out in 2004.This episode contains a clips from March 17th episoded of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio, addressing the U.S. military's pull out of Iceland, as well as other stuff.

First up, in celebration of the concert of theirs I'm going to tonight, we heard the UK's The Go! Team, with "The Wrath of Mikey" from their import single for Ladyflash (Amazon). Then Brooklyn's The Essex Green hooked us up with "Uniform" from their brand new (if sub-par) album Cannibal Sea (iTunes, Amazon). Next was Toronto's Meryn Cadell with an old song (that totally holds up) called "The Sweater" from her 1991 album Angel Food for Thought (Amazon, iTunes has the (dated) video). Then a couple of songs by Michigan's Wally Pleasant, first "I'm Nice" then "Wonderful Sex" both from his 1994 album Houses of the Holy Moly (online store). This episode featured a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher which you can watch all of at One Good Move. UPDATE: This episode was clipped until Tuesday at 3pm eastern. If your file doesn't have an end, please redownload. Sorry!

First up, a great indie pop group from Baton Rouge, Louisiana The Eames Era did "Go To Sleep" from their recent debut album Double Dutch (iTunes, Amazon). Next was the great New Zealand indie band The Bats, we heard "Bells" from their most recent album At the National Grid (iTunes, Amazon). Then from the dancefloors of the UK to your ears we heard the awesom mash-up of The Doors' "Riders on the Storm" and Blondie's "Rapture" in the outstanding track "Rapture Riders" by DJ Mark Vidler from the new Blondie best of album Sight & Sound (iTunes, Amazon). And finally we heard Portland's Reclinerland and their song "Alphabet, An" which will presumably be put on a record at some point in the future, but for now can be found on the best deal in the iTunes music store, the Hush Records 50 track sampler Mile - A Hush Compilation which costs a mere $9.99 (iTunes (better deal), Amazon).

First up, the one, the only, the irrepressible Stereolab are back with a new, totally good, album called Fab Four Suture (iTunes, Amazon) which comes out tomorrow and is just as good as anything they've done. We heard one of my three favorite songs called "I Was a Sunny Rainphase." Next was an oldie-but-goodie from The Halo Benders called "Don't Touch My Bikini" from their 1994 record God Don't Make No Junk (iTunes, Amazon). Then Florida's Electric President did "Snow on Dead Neighborhoods" from their debut self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon) which sounds kinda like a lot of other things such as The Postal Service or The Incredible Moses Leroy. Next was California's Kevin Blechdom (who is really Kristen Erickson) doing "Interspecies Love" from both her I Love Presets EP (iTunes, Amazon) and also a later album, but c'mon, it's not THAT good, so just stick with the EP. And finally we finished up this episode with Blanket Music (which is also basically the same band as Toothfairy, who has been on The Sounds in My Head before) doing a great Nouvelle Vague-esque cover of Bjork's "Hyper-Ballad" from the Read - Interpreting Bjork album (iTunes, Amazon). This episode features a clip with Stephen Colbert preditcts the Oscar winners with 100% accuracy on his show The Colbert Report. You can watch the whole clip at One Good Move.

First up, Minneapolis' Walker Kong did his excellent song "Executioner Song" from his 2001 album There Goes the Sun (iTunes, Amazon), which sounds almost like it could have come out a decade earlier. Next was Portland's Optiganally Yours (like Thingy and Pinback another Rob Crow band) doing their song "Geppetto" from their 2002 album Exclusively Talentmaker (iTunes, Amazon). Then New York City's rocktronica™ band Ratatat did "Everest" from their 2004 self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon). Next was North Carolina's best little indie-bluegrass outfit i've heard in ages, The Avett Brothers, did "Talk on Indolence" from their brand new album Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions (iTunes, Amazon). And we finished off this episode with a fantastic new song by the indispensable Willie Nelson who just put out a cover of "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" on Valentines Day (iTunes). You may remember the song from a much earlier episode of The Sounds in My Head where it was performed by San Francisco's punk queercore band Pansy Division.This episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about the war spending, and also about. Watch the whole clip at Crooks and Liars.

First up, New York City's own DJ Rx doing an awesome cover John Lennon's "Imagine" mixed with Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" featuring George W. Bush on lead vocals. Sound unnusual? Oh, it is. But it's also totally awesome. You can download this song as well as DJ Rx's whole The Party Party album from which it came from his website without paying, but I would reccomend paying. Next was New York City's better-than-most-bands-kinda-like-them The National with "Secret Meeting" from thier most recent album Aligator (iTunes, Amazon). Then indie-folk pioneer Sam Beam aka Iron & Wine did a great cover of one of my favorite New Order songs, "Love Vigilanties," from a new iTunes exclusive Live Session EP (iTunes). Then alter-ego of DJ Rx known as Me™ did a great song called "Dv Luvva" from his website. And finally we close this episode of the show with another DJ Rx song from The Party Party, called, appropriately enough "Dick is a Killer" (his site). Does it seem like this episode was a bit heavy on the DJ Rx? That's cause it was. But hey, this show is The Sounds in MY Head, and I've been listening to a LOT of DJ Rx. So there it is. More variety next week! This episode features a clip of Bill Maher on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno which you can see on One Good Move.

First up, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins (who are also from Los Angeles) collaborated for a new album called Rabbit Fur Coat (iTunes, Amazon) from which we heard one of my favorite songs, "Rise Up with Fists!!". Next was WFMU dj Ed Shepp and his song "Partydance" from his most recent release Five (iTunes, Amazon). Then Britain's ever-producing Saint Etienne did "Side Streets" from their new album (which, sadly, just isn't very good) Tales from Turnpike House (iTunes, Amazon). And we finished up with a couple of tracks from the awesome and underrated R&B legend Billy Paul. First a great cover of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", then "Am I Black Enough for You?" both of which can be found on Me and Mrs. Jones: The Best of Billy Paul (iTunes, Amazon).This episode features a clip from The Rachel Maddow Show from Air America Radio, as well as snippet from Bill Maher's I'm Swiss (Netflix, Amazon) standup comedy routine. His show, Real Time, will be back with a new season on HBO starting this Friday, the 17th!

(special music from recent movies episode!) First up Britain's Holly Golightly paired up with Cincinnati's The Greenhornes for the song "There Is an End" from the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers (iTunes, Amazon). Next Nellie McKay's new album may have been temporarily canned, but we get our fix with the song "Black Sheep" from the iTunes-only soundtrack EP thing for Rumor Has It... (iTunes) which has six unreleased songs (which are also not on her still forthcoming album Pretty Little Head). Then we heard the classic New Order song "Age of Consent" because it was used somewhat awkwardly, but at best, unexpectedly in the trailer for the new Sofia Copala film staring Kirsten Dunst Marie Antoinette, the song can be found on their album named for the Republican Party Power, Corruption and Lies (iTunes, Amazon). Then Stevie Wonder's Syreeta did "Harmour Love" as heard prominently in the recent film Junebug (who's original songs were composed Yo La Tengo, but despite this, a soundtrack has not been released) so in the meantime you can get this song on her Essential (Amazon) record or by plunking down some serious cash at iTunes. Next, Scottish folks singer Bert Jansch did "Courting Blues" from the soundtrack (which is better than the film) set in my neighborhood, The Squid and the Whale (iTunes, Amazon), directed by Noah Baumbach. And we finished up this episode with a great song by cowboy poet, historian, and musician Don Edwards who has been making music since the mid-60s and is still putting out records. We heard "Coyotes" which can be found either on his album Going Back to Texas (iTunes, Amazon) or on, the soundtrack to the movie Grizzly Man (iTunes, Amazon) which is bad other than this song.This episode features a clip of Barbara Bush showing off her Marie Antoinette way of thinking. Read about it, and some of her other noteworthy statements here.

(First episode of Season 3!) First up, picking up where I left off, my favorite band out of Scottland Belle & Sebastian with "For the Price of a Cup of Tea" from their brand new album The Life Pursuit (iTunes, Amazon) which comes out next week. Next was dj outfit Duptribe with a great reworking of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" called "SOS" (and technically, this was the "Trinity FM Radio Mix") from Samsung Chillout Volume 2 (Amazon). Then we continued down the path of electronic goodness with Mylo and "Paris 400" from their very purchase-worthy album Destroy Rock & Roll (iTunes, Amazon). And finally we wrapped up this episode with Owen Pallett's Hidden Cameras-esque band Final Fantasy and his song "This is the Dream of Win and Regine" from his album Has a Good Home (Amazon). This episode features a clip from The Onion's new podcast version of The Onion Radio News (subscribe).