(SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EPISODE!) First up, a new song from a new band, The Postmarks did a cover of Ministry's heavy metal classic "Every Day is Halloween" which is available for download on their MySpace page for free. But you'll also want to check out their Remixes (iTunes) EP that has a couple of songs which will be on their debut album due out in January and (if the few songs they've released to date is any evidence) is sure to be grand. Next Melbourne, Australia's Julian Nation did "Halloween River Cruise" from his Jens-Lekman-esque debut We Are All Writers (Book Club Records' store). Then ex-Pogue Shane MacGowan and his Popes did "Haunted" from The Snake (iTunes, Amazon). Next Long Island's Blue Oyster Cult did their classic "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from Agents of Fortune (iTunes, Amazon) or their greatest hits records (iTunes, Amazon). Then close personal friend of TSiMH Adam Roddick did his new song, fittingly for halloween called "Late October 2006" which can be downloaded from his MySpace page. And finally, Oklahoma's own Evangelicals put out a fantastic halloween song this year called "The Halloween Song" which, too, can be downloaded from their MySpace page. There have been 2 other Special Halloween Episodes of TSiMH, you can find them here and here.

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.