Special United Kingdom Plus a Little Bit from Iceland Episode! 1

• Noah and the Whale (London, UK)
• "If My Album Sold a Million"
• The A Sides (out of print, but try the music blogs...)
• similar: Jens Lekman

2

• Would-Be-Goods (London, UK)
• "The Camera Loves Me"
• The Camera Loves Me (eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Tender Trap

3

• Would-Be-Goods (London, UK)
• "Richard III"
• Brief Lives (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Pipas

4

• Would-Be-Goods (London, UK)
• "Enemies of Promise"
• Eventyr (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Marine Girls

5

• Wave Machines (Liverpool, UK)
• "The Greatest Escape We Ever Made"
• Wave If You're Really There (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Tough Alliance

6

• Mint Royale (Manchester, UK)
• "Show Me" (feat. Pos from De La Soul)
• Pop Is... (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Lo Fidelity Allstars, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers

7

• Monty Python (London, UK)
• "Money"
• Monty Python Sings (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Eric Idle

8

• Monty Python (London, UK)
• "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On the Radio"
• The Final Rip-Off (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Eric Idle

9

• Belle & Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland)
• "The Magic of a Kind Word"
• The BBC Sessions (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Pelle Carlberg, Ballboy, God Help the Girl

10

• Kitty Daisy & Lewis (London, UK)
• "Going Up the Country"
• Going Up the Country EP (eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Wanda Jackson

11

• Kitty Daisy & Lewis (London, UK)
• "(Baby) Hold Me Tight"
• (Baby) Hold Me Tight / Buggin' Blues EP (Amazon MP3)
• similar: Carl Perkins

12

• Seabear (Reykjavík, Iceland)
• "Teenage Kicks"
• Teenage Kicks / Piano Hands EP (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• cover of: The Undertones similar to: The Ladybug Transistor

13

• Ballboy (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• "Cicily"
• I Worked on the Ships (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Pelle Carlberg

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a clip of the king talking to peasants from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (watch) as well as the sketches "The Money Program" (watch) and "Architect Sketch" (watch) from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

1

• Plastic Operator (UK and Belgium)
• "Couch"
• Different Places (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Erlend Øye

2
3

• The Whitest Boy Alive (Berlin, Germany)
• "High on the Heels" and "Keep a Secret"
• Rules (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Erlend Øye, Kings of Convenience

4
5

• Soko (Bordeaux, France)
• "The Dandy Cowboys" and "I'll Kill Her"
• Not Sokute (not released in the US, but try the music blogs...)
• similar: Lykke Li, Laura Marling

6

• The Superpowers (Brooklyn, NYC)
• "AR #2"
• Trance of Nations (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Nomo, The Budos Band

7
8

• Plushgun (Brooklyn, NYC)
• "Just Impolite" and "How We Roll"
• Pins & Panzers (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Postal Service

9

• Neko Case (Tucson, AZ)
• "The Pharoahs"
• Middle Cyclone (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) discussing a new statue of Ronald Reagan as well as a clip from the first week of the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien with guest Patton Oswalt discussing his recent introduction to fatherhood (watch).

1

• Arcade Fire (Montreal, Canada)
• "Wake Up"
• Funeral (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• watch the trailer for: Where the Wild Things Are

2
3

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs (NYC)
• "Skeletons" and "Dull Life"
• It's Blitz! (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• on this album they're kinda similar to: Ladytron

4
5

• Austin Lace (Belgium)
• "Hardly Know You" and "Absurd"
• The Motherman (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
• similar: The LK

6
7
8

• The Shins, Tracey Thorn/Jens Lekman, The National/St. Vincent
• "Plenty is Never Enough", "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!", Sleep All Summer"
• SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• covers of: Tenement Halls, Magnetic Fields, Crooked Fingers

9

• St. Vincent (Brooklyn, NYC)
• "Actor Out of Work"
• Actor (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• used to be in: The Polyphonic Spree

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Onion News Network's coverage of Trekkies Bashing the new Star Trek film as "Fun, Watchable" and a Hot New Video Game That Consists Solely of Shooting People Point-Blank in the Face.

1

• God Help the Girl (Glasgow, Scotland)
• "Come Monday Night"
• God Help the Girl (free advance download)
• similar: Stuart Murdoch, Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura

2

• Stuart Murdoch (Glasgow, Scotland)
• "Another Saturday"
• Dark was the Night (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• also on album: The National, Yo La Tengo, Yeasayer, Andrew Bird

3
4

• Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland)
• "The Sweetest Thing" and "French Navy"
• My Maudlin Career (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Belle & Sebastian

5

• Pelle Carlberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
• "Nicknames"
• The Lilac Time (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• track features: Karolina Komstedt of Club 8

6
7

• Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Stanford-le-Hope, England)
• "Thou Shalt Always Kill" and "Letter from God to Man"
• Angles (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Streets

8

• Balthrop, Alabama (Brooklyn, NY)
• "The Butter Song"
• Cowboy Songs EP (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Neutral Milk Hotel

9

• Balthrop, Alabama (Brooklyn, NY)
• "Subway Horns"
• Subway Songs EP (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Decemberists

10

• The University of Rochester Midnight Ramblers (Rochester, NY)
• "Army"
• Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• cover of: Ben Folds Five / Ben Folds (Winston-Salem, NC)

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features a birthday well-wishing recorded for me by Pelle Carlberg to mark my turning 30 last week. Thanks Pelle, you're the bestest! (And thanks to recent guest-host/my brother-in-law/friend since pre-school Chris for hooking that up!) The episode also featured an ad for the Libertarian Paradise Vacation Destination of Somalia by the Public Service Administration (watch it!) as well as clips from HBO's Realtime with Bill Maher's (watch it), and a tiny bit of Wanda Sykes at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner (watch it).

Special Daniel's in Los Angeles, California Episode! 1

• Quasi (Portland, OR)
• "California"
• Featuring "Birds" (iTunes, Amazon)
• similar: The New Rags

2

• The Snow Fairies (Philadelphia, PA)
• "Baja California"
• Get Married (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Pipas, Tullycraft, The Icicles

3

• Call & Response (Oakand, CA)
• "California Floating in Space"
• Call & Response (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Postmarks, The Ladybug Transistor

4

• Fight Like Apes (Dublin, Ireland)
• "I'm Beginning to Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 to Me"
• And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (Amazon)
• similar: Envelopes, The Affair

5

• The Ladybug Transistor (Brooklyn, NY)
• "California Stopover"
• Can't Wait Another Day (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Essex Green, 1900s

6

• The Decemberists (Portland, OR)
• "Los Angeles, I'm Yours"
• Her Majesty the Decemberists (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Colin Meloy, Neutral Milk Hotel

7

• Semisonic (Minneapolis, MN)
• "California"
• Feeling Strangely Fine (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Dishwalla, Marcy Playground

8

• Luna (NYC)
• "California (All the Way)"
• Bewitched (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Dean & Britta, Galaxy 500

9

• Jude (Boston, MA)
• "Out of L.A."
• No One is Really Beautiful (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Mike Doughty, Michael Penn

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Bill Hicks album Arizona Bay (Amazon, iTunes) where he mocks L.A. and also clips and music from the movie Swingers (Netflix, Amazon DVD, CD1, CD2).

Special RECENT-Cure-RELATED-SONGS-AND-COVERS Episode! 1

• Brat (Burbank, CA)
• "Easy Heaven"
• Best of Bootie 2008 (free download)
• mashup: The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" vs. The Commodores's "Easy"

2
3
4

• Elizabeth Harper, Dean & Britta (NYC), Devics (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Pictures of You", "Friday I'm in Love", and "Catch"
• Just Like Heaven - A Tribute to The Cure (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Luna

5

• Kat Edmonson (Austin, TX)
• "Just Like Heaven"
• Take to the Sky (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Low Standards

6

• Buddy (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Sugar Girl"
• Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Death Cab for Cutie

7

• Death Cab for Cutie (Seattle, WA)
• "Love Song"
• Sweetheart (iTunes)
• similar: The Postal Service, Electric President

8

• The Watson Twins (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Just Like Heaven"
• Fire Songs (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which you can watch in full here, and also a brief clip of New York Times' Ethicist Randy Cohen talking about his new column called Moral of the Story on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (subscribe).

1

• Bishop Allen (Brooklyn, NY)
• "Shanghaied"
• Grrr... (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Voxtrot, Okkervil River, The Little Ones

2
3
4

• The New Rags (Brooklyn, NY)
• "Graduation", "The Cascades" and "On a Leash"
• Gotta Get Out of Here ("Graduation" is in eMusic)
• similar: Caesars meets Scott Joplin

5
6

• Swimming in Speakers (Saranac Lake, NY)
• "In Knowing" and "Serve Them Well"
• Swimming in Speakers EP (Amazon MP3)
• similar: My Little Airport, Hello Seahorse!, Headlights

7

• Ben Kweller (Brooklyn, NY)
• "Sawdust Man"
• Changing Horses (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Nik Freitas

8

• Nik Freitas (Los Angeles, CA)
• "What You Become"
• Sun Down (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Ben Kweller

9

• Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (Taylor, MS)
• "God Loves You, Michael Chang"
• The Good Feeling Music of... (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Jens Lekman

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from This American Life's episode "The Wrong Side of History" . The segment in the clip is a comedy troupe from San Francisco called Kasper Hauser and the routine is "Phone Call to the 14th Century".

1

• Bell X1 (Celbridge, Ireland)
• "The Great Defector"
• Blue Lights on the Runway (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Talking Heads, Airborne Toxic Event

2
3

• Lisa Hannigan (Dunshaughlin, Ireland)
• "Ocean and a Rock" and "I Don't Know"
• Sea Sew (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Damien Rice

4

• Heartless Bastards (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• "The Mountain"
• The Mountain (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Magneta Lane

5

• The Bird and the Bee (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Love Letter to Japan"
• Ray Guns are Not Just the Future (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Submarines, Lykke Li

6

• M. Ward (Portland, OR)
• "Never Had Nobody Like You"
• Hold Time (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• featuring: Zooey Deschanel

7
8

• Mad Tea Party (Asheville, NC)
• "I Never was a Cool One" and "I Went Out"
• Found a Reason (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Asylum Street Spankers

9
10

• John.Wayne.Shot.Me (Netherlands)
• "Hollywood" and "Everything Too Fast"
• Fortran Catapult (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Polaris, Austin Lace

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the New York Times' Ethicist, Randy Coen, column podcast, covering the right thing to do in three situations: Your customer is being swindled, you see a friend in pornography online, and cats crap on your lawn.

SPECIAL GUEST-HOSTED BY CHRIS, BREAK-FROM-THE-BREAK EPISODE! 1

• Okkervil River (Austin, TX)
• "Lost Coastlines"
• The Stand-Ins (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Shearwater, The National

2

• Salim Nourallah (Dallas, TX)
• "The Wicked Are Winning"
• Snowing In My Heart (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Dirk Darmstaedter

3

• Hooverphonic (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium)
• "The Eclipse Song"
• The President of the LSD Golf Club (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, Portishead

4

• Immaculate Machine (Victoria, Canada)
• "Jarhand"
• Fables (iTunes, eMusic)
• similar: The New Pornographers, A.C. Newman

5

• The Boxer Rebellion (London, UK)
• "These Walls Are Thin"
• Union (iTunes)
• similar: U2, Coldplay, Keane

6

• Morcheeba (London, UK)
• "Enjoy the Ride"
• Dive Deep (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Zero 7, Hooverphonic, Thievery Corporation

7

• Basia Bulat (London, Canada)
• "In the Night"
• Oh My Darling (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Mirah, Christine Fellows

8

• Ray LaMontagne (Lewiston, Maine)
• "Till The Sun Turns Black" and "Within You"
• Till the Sun Turns Black (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Nick Drake, Iron & Wine

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Louis CK's album Chewed Up (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic), the track was "I Enjoy Being White." Also there were clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart about Dick Cheney (watch) and George W. Bush's last days (watch).

1

• Ladyhawke (London via New Zealand)
• "Magic"
• Ladyhawke (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: the 1980s, CSS

2
3

• James (Manchester, England)
• "Hey Ma" and "Whiteboy"
• Hey Ma (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Suede, Gene, Waterboys

4
5

• 1900s (Chicago, IL)
• "Collections" and "Making Love in Summertime"
• Medium High (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Essex Green, The Ladybug Transistor

6
7

• The Heavenly States (Oakland, CA)
• "Never Be Alright" and "The Race"
• Delayer (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• "Never Be Alright" is sort of a cover of: Bob Dylan

8

• Frank Fairfield (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Darling Corey"
• I've Always Been A Rambler (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Vintage Music

9

• The Postmarks (Miami, FL)
• "11:59"
• By the Numbers (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Elk City

10

• Asobi Seksu (NYC)
• "Me & Mary"
• Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass EP (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: My Bloody Valentine

11

• Vampire Weekend (NYC)
• "The Kids Don?t Stand a Chance (Chromeo Remix)"
• The Kids Don?t Stand a Chance (single) (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Paul Simon with a beat

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from an essay by On the Media's Bob Garfield about George W. Bush having a shoe thrown at him by a journalist in Iraq.

SPECIAL 2008 CHRISTMAS MUSIC EPISODE! 1

• African Guitar Summit (Canada)
• "Afe Hyia Pa"
• Think Global: World Christmas (Amazon)
• similar: The Hallelujah Chicken Run Band

2

• The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band (Brown County, IN)
• "Plasma for Christmas"
• A Very Standard Christmas (iTunes, Amazon MP3)

3
4

• Built for the Sea and Persephone's Bees (The Bay Area, CA)
• "Baby it's Cold Outside" and "Sleigh Ride"
• A Foggy Holiday - Carols from the San Francisco Scene, Vol. 1 (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)

5

• The Hives (Sweden) and Cyndi Lauper (NYC)
• "A Christmas Duel"
• A Christmas Duel (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
• similar: The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York"

6

• Noah and the Whale (UK)
• "Christmastime"
• Live on Welcome to Our TV Show December 2007 (YouTube)
• similar: Jens Lekman

7

• The Barbary Coasters (Oakland, CA)
• "I Want a Monkey for Christmas"
• Hark! Tidings of Barbary Joy (CD Baby, Digital Download)

8

• Elk City (NYC)
• "Deer Crossing"
• Redeye 2008 Holiday Sampler (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
• similar: The Postmarks

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from the very funny David Sedaris reading "Six to Eight Black Men" which can be heard in its entirety here.

1

• The Lodger (Leeds, UK)
• "The Good Old Days"
• Life is Sweet (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Little Ones

2
3

• Caesars (Sweden)
• "Boo Boo Goo Goo" and "Strawberry Weed"
• Strawberry Weed (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Teddybears

4
5

• M83 (Nice, France)
• "You, Appearing" and "Kim & Jessie"
• Saturdays = Youth (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Sigur Rós, Air France

6
7

• Pickin' On Series (Nashville, TN)
• "Down Under" and "Take on Me"
• Pickin' and Singin' the Biggest Hits of the 1980's (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
• similar: Iron Horse, Old School Freight Train

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from NPR affiliate WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show with guest Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel as well as from Air America's The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC's afternoon news (watch), NY1's In the Papers segment and NPR's On the Media and Morning Edition discussing the Special Edition of The New York Times, which I was integrally involved with creating and distributing. Read the paper or download it's PDF on the website, or read what the real Times had to say about it.

1

• The Decemberists (Portland, OR)
• "Valerie Plame"
• Always the Bridesmaid EP (iTunes)
• similar: Colin Meloy, Neutral Milk Hotel

2
3

• Army Navy (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Dark as Days" and "Pocket Boys"
• Army Navy (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Peter, Bjorn and John

4

• The Tough Alliance (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• "First Class Riot"
• A New Chance (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Shout Out Louds

5

• Marching Band (Sweden)
• "Gorgeous Behavior"
• Spark Large (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Army Navy,The Shins

6

• The Cure (UK)
• "Only One"
• 4:13 Dream (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Joy Division, Depeche Mode

7
8

• Kaki King (Atlanta, GA) & Rainbow Arabia (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Close to Me" and "Six Different Ways"
• Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• covers of: The Cure

9

• She & Him (Portland, OR)
• "Change is Hard"
• Volume One (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Patsy Cline

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from FAIR's weekly podcast Counterspin's interview with Billy Bragg, The Huffington Post's 23/6 compilation Election Day 2008 in 2 Minutes, and Cooking with the Obamas from CBS News' 60 Minutes.

SPECIAL 2008 ELECTION EPISODE! 1

• Norah Jones (NYC)
• "My Dear Country"
• Not Too Late (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Ella Fitzgerald

2

• The Whirlybird (Opelousas, LA)
• "Oui On Peut (Yes We Can!)"
• Obama Zydeco from Louisiana 2008 (free download)
• similar: Clifton Chenier

3

• Wyclef Jean (Newark, NJ via Haiti)
• "President" (Live)
• Dave Chappelle's Block Party Film (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Fugees

4

• Le Tigre (NYC)
• "Get Off the Internet"
• From the Desk of Mr. Lady EP (iTunes)
• similar: Bikini Kill

5

• The Submarines (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Vote"
• Declare a New State! (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Headlights, The Cardigans

6

• The Ballet (NYC)
• "I Hate the War"
• Mattachine! (iTunes)
• similar: Baskervilles

7

• The Zombies (St. Albans, England)
• "This Will Be Our Year"
• The Single As & Bs (iTunes)
• covered by: OK GO

8

• They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
• "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"
• Future Soundtrack for America (Amazon)
• similar: John Linnell, Mono Puff

9

• Wally Pleasant (East Lansing, MI)
• "The Day Ted Nugent Killed All the Animals"
• Wally World (buy online)
• similar: Johnathan Coulton

10

• Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland)
• "Alaska"
• If Looks Could Kill (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Belle & Sebastian, The Concretes

11

• Morrissey (England)
• "America is Not the World"
• You are the Quarry (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: The Smiths

12

• Sam Cooke (Chicago, IL)
• "A Change is Gonna Come"
• Portrait of a Legend (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Otis Redding

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (watch) and (watch), Bill Moyers Journal (subscribe), Ronald Reagan essentially endorsing Barack Obama (watch), an awesome JFK campaign ad (watch), and Ralph Stanley endorsing Barack Obama (watch).

1

• Ben Folds (Nashville via NC) feat. Regina Spektor (NYC via Russia)
• "You Don't Know Me"
• Way to Normal (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Regina Spektor

2
3

• Dr. Dog (Philadelphia, PA)
• "The Rabbit, the Bat, and the Reindeer" and "Uncovering the Old"
• Fate (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Page France, Of Montreal

4

• Bodies of Water (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Water Here"
• A Certain Feeling (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Electrelane

5
6

• The Submarines (Los Angeles, CA)
• "You Me and the Bourgeoisie" and "Maybe"
• Honeysuckle Weeks (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Headlights, The Cardigans

7

• The Rosebuds (Raleigh, NC)
• "In the Backyard"
• Life Like (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Irving

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Chris Rock's Kill the Messenger from HBO, and from The Onion's Today Now! with "Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused by his Disastrous Presidency"

SPECIAL MUSIC FROM RECENT MOVIES EPISODE! 1

• Vampire Weekend (NYC)
• "Ottoman"
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Sountrack (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• also on album: Devendra Banhart, Richard Hawley, Band of Horses

2
3

• U.N.P.O.C. (Edinburgh, Scotland) and Orange Juice (Glasgow, Scotland)
• "Here on My Own" and "Blue Boy"
• Mister Foe Sountrack (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
  • also on album: Clinic, King Creosote, Juana Molina, Psapp

4

• Barry Louis Polisar (USA)
• "All I Want Is You"
• Juno Soundtrack (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• also on album: Kimya Dawson, The Kinks, Belle & Sebastian

5
6

• Erik Satie (Paris, France)
• "3 Gymnopedies: #1: Slow and Painful" and "6 Gnossiennes: #1: Slow"
• Man on Wire (via an album by Klara Kormendi) (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
• similar: Gonzales

7
8

• Shout Out Louds (Stockholm) & Ms. Tyree "Sugar" Jones (USA)
• "Bicycle" and "If You Feel It"
• Choke Soundtrack (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• also on album: Fiery Furnaces, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead

9

• Nouvelle Vague (feat. Julie Delpy) (France)
• "Lalala"
• 2 Days In Paris Soundtrack (eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• also on album: Les Plaies Mobiles, AS Dragon, Brigitte Fontaine

10

• Michael Crawford (Hello, Dolly!)
• "Put on Your Sunday Clothes"
• Wall-E Soundtrack (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• also on album: Thomas Newman, Louis Armstrong, Peter Gabriel too

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips of Republican vice presidential candidate Sara Palin showing off her dizzying intellect. On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and in clips from her kind of amazing interview with Catie Couric on CBS News (watch: Part 1, Part 2).

1

• Koushik (Ontario, Canada)
• "Lying in the Sun"
• Out My Window (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• this song sounds like: The Russian Futurists

2

• Jeans Team (Berlin, Germany)
• "La Tente"
• Kopf Auf (U.S.Tour Edition) (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• featuring: Stereo Total

3
4

• Johnny Flynn (London, UK)
• "The Box" and "The Wrote & the Writ"
• A Larum (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• kinda sorta like: Ballboy

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• Laura Marling (Eversley, UK)
• "Tap at My Window" and "You're No God"
• Alas I Cannot Swim (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• related: Noah and the Whale

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• Ratatat (Brooklyn, NYC)
• "Falcon Jab"
• LP3 (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Daft Punk

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• Chairlift (Brooklyn, NYC)
• "Evident Utensil" and "Bruises"
• Does You Inspire You (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Feist, Regina Spektor

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from The Daily Show's RNC Convention coverage, including clips primarily about John McCain and Sarah Palin. Watch the clips here, here, here, and here. It also contains a clip of the New Rules from the September 12th episode of Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe).

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• Project Jenny, Project Jan (Brooklyn, NY)
• "Brooklyn"
• XOXOXOXOXO (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• nothing else on the album is anything like this song

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• Stereolab (London, UK)
• "Neon Beanbag" and "Cellulose Sunshine"
• Chemical Chords (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Electrelane, Sounds Like Stereolab (Blog)

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• The Last Shadow Puppets (Sheffield, UK)
• "The Age of the Understatement"
• The Age of the Understatement (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Arctic Monkeys

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• Noah & the Whale (London, UK)
• "5 Years Time" and "2 Atoms in a Molecule"
• Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down (Amazon, Amazon Import)
• similar: Jens Lekman

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• Vampire Weekend (NYC)
• "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Radioclit Mix)"
• Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (single) (iTunes)
• similar: The Green Arrows, Four Brothers

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• Lykke Li (Stockholm, Sweden)
• "I'm Good, I'm Gone" and "Let It Fall"
• Youth Novels (iTunes)
• similar: El Perro del Mar

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• Devendra Banhart (Los Angeles, CA)
• "Carmensita" (watch the video)
• Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: M. Ward

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama speaking at the DNC last week (subscribe), as well as Bill Maher from his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe).

SPECIAL ALL SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC EPISODE PART 2! 1

• The Bell (Malmo & Stockholm, Sweden)
• "On and On" (video)
• Make Some Quiet (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Apartment, Interpol

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• Plastic Operator (London & Stockholm)
• "Peppermint (Original Mix)"
• Peppermint EP (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Erland Øye

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• Pelle Carlberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
• "1983 (Pelle & Sebastian)"
• 1983 (Pelle & Sebastian) EP (iTunes, eMusic)
• similar: Edson, Belle & Sebastian

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• My Darling YOU! (Göteborg & Alingsås, Sweden)
• "Please Don't Talk To Me I Fall In Love So Easily"
• 16 Major Problems (free download of the album)

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• Virna Lindt (Stockholm, Sweden)
• "Attention Stockholm"
• Shiver (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon)
• sounds like a cross between: John Berry and 80s New Wave

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• Erlend Øye (Oslo, Norway)
• "The Black Keys Work"
• The Black Keys Work EP (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Kings of Convenience

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• Dungen (Vastergotland, Sweden)
• "Stadsvandringar"
• Stadsvandringar (iTunes, Amazon MP3)

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• Sondre Lerche & Lillian Samdal (Bergen, Norway)
• "Modern Nature"
• Dan in Real Life Soundtrack (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Sondre Lerche

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• The Concretes (Stockholm, Sweden)
• "Back for Good"
• Guilt By Association (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Taken By Trees

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• Acid House Kings (Sweden)
• "Do What You Wanna Do"
• Sing Along with the Acid House Kings (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Club 8

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• Rough Bunnies (Sweden)
• "Love & Hate"
• Rough Bunnies Goes Pirate (download online for free)
• similar: Kimya Dawson

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• Jens Lekman (Sweden)
• "Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death"
• SC100 - Deluxe Edition (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• cover of: Scout Niblett

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• Junip (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• "Black Refuge"
• Black Refuge EP (iTunes, eMusic)
• basically is: Jose Gonzalez

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from PBS's Bill Moyers Journal (subscribe), describing the amazing failures of conservatism. As well as a clips from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report with a rare apology from the host for offending the mayor of Cantan, GA.

SPECIAL ALL SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC EPISODE PART 1! 1

• The LK (Malmo, Sweden)
• "Private Life of a Cat"
• vs. The Snow (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Shout Out Louds

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• El Perro Del Mar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• "Jubilee" and "You Can't Steal a Gift"
• From the Valley to the Stars (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Frida Hyvönen, Taken by Trees

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• Gro Anita Schønn (Oslo, Norway)
• "Oslo"
• Takk for Glitter Og Stas (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Flowers (Icelandic)

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• Sigur Ros (Reykjavik, Iceland)
• "Gobbledigook"
• Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Múm

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• I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper (Helsinki, Finland)
• "So 2001"
• The Lemonade Ocean (buy online)
• similar: Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band

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• Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• "Garbage Structure"
• X-Ray Spirit (Amazon MP3)
• similar: I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper

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• Edson (Stockholm, Sweden)
• "148020"
• Every Day, Every Second (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Pelle Carlberg

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• Strip Squad (Malmo, Sweden)
• "You Cream My Pants" and "Unreliable Narrator"
• The Adventures of Strip Squad (buy online)
• like a cross between: Stereo Total and The Moldy Peaches

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• Irene (Göteborg, Sweden)
• "Seaside" and "Back to Back"
• Long Gone Since Last Summer (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
• similar: Pelle Carlberg

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• salut!machaut (Malmo, Sweden)
• "The Fastest Boy in School"
• Myspace (download from their Myspace page)
• kinda similar: I'm from Barcelona

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• The Lovekevins (now The LK) (Malmo, Sweden)
• "Max Léon"
• Max Léon EP (iTunes)
• similar: Shout Out Louds

ALSO ON THIS SHOW

This episode features clips from Air America Radio's The Rachel Maddow Show (7/31/08) where she brilliantly explains the slight of hand use by the Republican Party to conflate "America" with "American-in-Name-Only-Oil-Companies-with-Banks-in-Cayman-Islands" to justify their policy positions on domestic and foreign matters.