(SPECIAL LOUISIANA EPISODE!) First up, New Orleans' own
World Leader Pretend did the great song "Bang Theory" from their debut album
Punches (
iTunes,
Amazon). Then the deep south's
Bobby Lounge who is described as "playing the
piano like
Jerry Lee Lewis, with the showmanship of
Little Richard, and lyrics like
Randy Newman on crack" did the Louisiana specific song "Take Me Back to Abita Springs" from his record
I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burned Down (
Amazon,
website). Next Baton Rouge's indie electro-rockers
Reception is Suspected did "Boy with a Voice That Could Destroy the World" from their debut album
The New American Etiquette (
iTunes,
Amazon). Followed by fellow Baton Rouge act
The Eames Era have a brand new album that just came out called
Heroes & Sheroes (
eMusic,
iTunes,
Amazon), from which we heard two songs: "Last to Know" and "Dear Gabby". And finally British Columbia's
The Be Good Tanyas did a song about New Orleans called "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" from their 2001 album
Blue Horse (
eMusic,
iTunes,
Amazon).
This show features a clip from Eugene Mirman's CD The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of Eugene Mirman (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon) about credit cards.