First up, Sweden's awesome The Shout Out Louds with "A Track and a Train" from their recently released in the U.S. Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Next was a song I just can't hear enough from Sounds in My Head favorites The Essex Green called "By the Sea" from their 2003 album The Long Goodbye (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Next was Argentina's Juana Molina with "Amigo" from her only-available-at-live-shows album Juana Molina OO Alejandro Franov (sorry, there's no link to buy, but you can check out her album Segundo at Amazon). Then Koufax did "Isabelle" from their most recent album Hard Times Are in Fashion (iTunes, Amazon). And finally another favorite band of mine of recent time, Helsinki's Husky Rescue did "Rainbow Flows" from their recent album Country Falls (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). This episode features of clip from Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Jaun Gonzalez with a description of how disruptive Bush's presence was during his recent, failed trip Argentina.

(SPECIAL EXTRA LONG HALLOWEEN EPISODE!) First up, a band called North American Halloween Prevention Initiative which is a amalgamation of TONS of band, such as Arcade Fire's Win Butler & Regine Chassagne, Beck, David Cross, Devendra Banhart, Feist, The Postal Service's Jimmy Tamborello, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis & Blake Sennet, Smoosh's Asya & Chloe, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner & Spencer Krug, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O (among others) with a fantastic new song released just in time for Halloween called "Do They Know it's Hallowe'en". We heard the radio edit, but there are 4 versions on the EP (iTunes, Amazon). Next was Philadelphia's Matt Pond PA with "Halloween" which is on his new album Several Arrows Later (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then lo-fi girl-led rockers DQE did "Halloween Song" from their 2002 album Queen of Mean (Amazon). Next was the also lo-fi (but that's where the similarities end) Devendra Banhart with his song "Pumpkin Seeds" from his 2002 album Oh Me Oh My the Way the Day Goes by the Sun is Setting Dogs are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then London's The Clientele did "Haunted Melody" from their 2003 The Violet Hour (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). The do also have a new album that has just come out called Strange Geometry (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Next was one of two very tacidly related to halloween songs, it was California's Rogue Wave's cover of Buddy Holly's "Everyday" as heard on the brand new, super good, Stubbs the Zombie soundtrack (iTunes, Amazon). Get it? ZOMBIE! Then New Hampshire's so-bad-it's-good band The Shaggs did "It's Halloween" from their retrospective collection Philosophy of the World (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). And who'd have ever thought there'd be a Shaggs tribute album? Well, there is, and Joost Visser covered "It's Halloween" (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, also from the Stubbs the Zombie record, we heard San Francisco's Oranger doing a cover of The Chordettes' "Mr. Sandman". This week's episode features a clip of Woody Allen doing standup in the mid-60s (Amazon), and a clip from The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio. We also heard a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher.

First up, Brooklyn's Talking Heads... er, I mean, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah did "Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)" from their awesome debut self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Next was the UK band The Boy Least Likely To with the song "Be Gentle With Me" from their debut album Best Party Ever (Amazon, Insound). Then Pete Doherty, best known as the lead singer for The Libertines, was is in a new band called Babyshambles, did "From Bollywood to Battersea" from the new charity compilation Help: A Day In the Life (iTunes, Amazon) which is pretty good, and features other bands with unreleased material like Belle & Sebastian, The Go! Team, Radiohead, Coldplay, and many, many more. And finally Brooklyn's synth-pop chicks Au Revoir Simone did "The Disco Song" from their debut album Verses of Comfort, Assurance, and Salvation (online store).This week's episode features a clip Saturday Night Live which can be viewed in full at One Good Move.

(SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG MY FAVORITE AFRICAN MUSIC EPISODE) First up, the South African freedom song "Naants' Indod'Emnyama (Beware Verwoerd)" as performed by the world famous South African born Miriam Makeba from the soundtrack to Amandla! (Amazon). Next was the current "it" band out of Mali, called Amadou & Mariam with their awesome song "Coulibaly" which can be found on their new album Dimanche a Bamako (iTunes, Amazon) for which they paired up with France's Manu Chao. Then Zambia's gospel a cappella group called, you guessed it, Zambian Acapella, did "Thulalila Lele" their first album From Africa with Love (a-cappella.com). Then South Africa's luminary Vusi Mahlasela with "Ntate Mahlasela" from his album The Voice (iTunes, Amazon). Then Niger's Mamar Kassey did the title track from their album Denke-denke (Amazon). And South Africa's Chris McGregor did "Mra" from his 1971 classic Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (Amazon). Next, South Africa's essential Ladysmith Black Mambazo teamed up with the female UK a cappella group The Mint Juleps for a cover of The Tokens "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", which was itself a cover of The Weavers "Wimoweh", which was itself a cover of the South African songwriter Soloman Linda (whose family only recently started getting royalties) song by the same name... but I digress. Anyway, it was taken from a rare 1990 French CD-Single, called The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Amazon). Next was Cameroon's Henri Dikongué with the title track from his 1999 album Wa (iTunes, Amazon). And finally music-fusionist Hughes de Courson created a fascinating opus in 1997 with his album Mozart in Egypt (Amazon), on which he combined Mozart with the traditional music of Egypt. We heard the song "Ikhtitaf Fi Assaraya (L'enlèvement au sérail)".This week's episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. You can download a great selection of QuickTime clips from the Daily Show at One Good Move.

First up, everyone's favorite Seattle-based singer/songwriter Laura Veirs did her best song to date, "Galaxies," from her new album Year of Meteors (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then we heard Ladytron with "Destroy Everything You Touch" from their brand new album called Witching Hour (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Next was two songs by the classic Seattle-based indie pop/rock band Tullycraft (who have somehow never made it on The Sounds in My Head before). First was "Stowaway" from their new album Disenchanted Hearts Unite (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music) then, because that song short, we heard "Cowgirls on Parade" from 2002's Beat, Surf, Fun (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). And finally, a new song from Dallas' The Polyphonic Spree called "Move Away and Shine (In a Dream Version)" from the soundtrack to the new movie Thumbsucker (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music).This week's episode features a clip from the podcast for Ebert & Roeper at the Movies as they review the stellar new film Good Night. And Good Luck. There is also a clip from the 9/30 episode of On the Media from NPR about the film. Tomorrow you can buy a DVD collection of Murrow's work.

First up North Carolina's The Rosebuds did "Shake Our Tree" from their new album Birds Make Good Neighbors (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music) which I think is more interesting than their 2003 album Make Out (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music), but not necessarily better. Next was Canada's up-and-coming, pop sensation-to-be Columbus with their song "Christian Girls" from their new EP called, appropriately enough, Debut EP (Scratch Records). Then San Francisco's art-rockers Deerhoof did "O'Malley, Former Underdog" from their brand spankin' new album (currently only in iTunes, but coming out on cd on the 11th) The Runners Four (iTunes) which is great, if you like that sort of thing. And finally, Montreal's indie rock outfit du jour Wolf Parade did "Shine a Light" from their new album Apologies to the Queen Mary (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). This week's episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. You can download a great selection of QuickTime clips from the Daily Show at One Good Move.

First up, a fun new group from Japan called PINE*am with the song "Do I Know You" from their album Pull the Rabbit Ears (iTunes, Amazon) most of which sounds like it could be heard during an anime film where the main characters just play video games all the time. Then one of the most consistent bands ever, Los Angeles' Celtic/Punk Flogging Molly did "What's Left of the Flag" from their 2002 album Drunken Lullabies (iTunes, Amazon). Next was the UK band Research with their funny new song "I Love You But..." from a two-track EP called C'mon Chameleon (7Digital, Amazon, Eil.com). And finally, going back to 1997 for a classic Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song called "People Ain't No Good" from the album Boatman's Call (iTunes, Other Music, Amazon).