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.