- Little Majorette (Stockholm, Sweden)
- 01 Undercover
- Rifle Heart
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Princess Chelsea
- Lost Bayou Ramblers (Lafayette, LA)
- 02 Blues de Bernadette
- 03 Coteau Guidry (feat. Scarlett Johansson)
- Mammoth Waltz
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Balfa Brothers
- Thoughts Detecting Machines (Chicago, IL)
- 04 Pouring Sun
- 05 Level Me Out
- An Introduction to
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Doug Hoyer, The Rentals
- We're Dumb (Austin, TX)
- 06 Guys On Scooters Kind of Look Like Girls
- 07 We're Dumb Too
- Don't Worry About the Pool Party EP
- (free on bandcamp)
- similar to: The Babies
- Vetiver (San Francisco, CA)
- 08 More of This
- 09 Strictly Rule
- Tight Knit
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Andrew Bird, Diego García
- Summer Fiction (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 10 She's Bound to Get Hurt
- 11 Kids in Catalina
- Summer Fiction
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Brown Recluse
- Kishi Bashi (Seattle, WA)
- 12 It All Began With a Burst
- 13 I Am the Antichrist to You
- 151a
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Andrew Bird
- Seapony (Seattle, WA)
- 14 Tell Me So
- Falling
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: La Sera
Also On This, the Last Episode of Season 9
Most of the music I talk over on this episode is by Y Niwl (from Wales, in the UK) who sounds just like Shadowy Men on Shadowy Planet. Their self-titled album (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) is awesome!
SPECIAL "LOVE" EPISODE!
- Joy Zipper (NYC)
- 01 Christmas Song
- American Whip
- (Amazon MP3)
- similar to: My Bloody Valentine
- Ball Park Music (Brisbane, Australia)
- 01 IFLY
- Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs
- (Amazon Import)
- similar to: Pavement
- The Research (Wakefield, England, UK)
- 03 I Love You, But…
- C'mon Chameleon / I Love You But.. Single
- (Amazon)
- The Happy Bullets (Dallas, TX)
- 04 Fuck Yeah, I'm In Love With You
- Hydropanic at the Natatorium
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Hefner
- The New Rags (NYC)
- 05 Love of My Life
- Gotta Get Out of Here
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Caesars meets Scott Joplin
- My Darling You (Göteborg, Sweden)
- 06 Please Don't Talk To Me I Fall In Love So Easily
- 16 Major Problems
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Tough Alliance
- Smoking Popes (Chicago, IL)
- 07 Let's Hear it for Love
- Destination Failure
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Duvall
- Lia Ices (Westport, CT)
- 08 Love is Won
- Grown Unknown
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Hannah Peel
Also On This Episode
This episode features clip from the classic film The Princess Bride about Wuv, Trwue Wuv...
SPECIAL "9th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC" EPISODE!
- The Polyphonic Spree (Dallas, TX)
- 01 Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Holidaydream
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Flaming Lips, Tripping Daisy
- The Rosebuds (Raleigh, NC)
- 02 Oh It's Christmas
- 03 Hold Me Tight
- Christmas Tree Island
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Opossom
- Lightning Love (Ypsilanti, MI)
- 04 It's Christmas Behave Yourself
- Suburban Sprwal Holiday Sampler 2011
- (free download)
- similar to: Hospitality
- Sylvan Lanes (Detroit, MI)
- 05 Somerset Solo
- Suburban Sprwal Holiday Sampler 2012
- (free download)
- basically is: Frontier Ruckus
- DJ McFLY (New Hampshire)
- 06 Riders on the Sugar Plum
- DJ BC's Santastic 7: It's a Wonderful Mash
- (free download)
- mashup of: The Doors, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Maroon 5
- Heartless Bastards (Cincinnati, OH) and Andrew Bird (Chicago, IL)
- 07 Blue Christmas
- 08 Auld Lang Syne
- Holidays Rule
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Diamond Rugs (Providence, RI)
- 09 Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
- Diamond Rugs
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Deer Tick
- David Bazan (Seattle, WA)
- 10 Just Like Christmas
- A.V. Club's Holiday Undercover Series
- (watch)
- similar to: Pedro the Lion cover of: Low
- Shonen Knife (Osaka, Japan)
- 11 Sweet Christmas
- Sweet Christmas EP
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Kishi Bashi (Seattle, WA)
- 12 It's Christmas But It's Not White Here in Our Town
- Christmas Flexi Single
- (buy online)
- similar to: Andrew Bird
- The Irish Tenors (Ireland)
- 13 Fairytale of New York
- The Irish Tenors Christmas
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- cover of: The Pogues
Also On This Episode
This episode features a clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing FoxNews' annual "War On Christmas" nonsense. Watch the entire segment here, it's a bit longer than what I included, but all hilarious.
- Saturday Looks Good To Me (Ann Arbor, MI)
- 01 Sunglasses
- Sunglasses Single
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Essex Green
- AK/DK (Brighton, UK)
- 02 Lost: Eric
- 03 Lorem Ipsum
- Dispatch #1 EP
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Apparat Organ Quartet
- The Babies (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 04 Alligator
- 05 Mess Me Around
- 06 Get Lost
- Our House on the Hill
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Reading Rainbow
- The Spinto Band (Wilmington, DE)
- 07 Muesli
- 08 The Living Things
- Shy Pursuits
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Le Futur Pompiste (Helsinki & Stockholm)
- 09 Five Hundred Heartbeats
- 10 My Trophy
- Le Futur Pompiste
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Stereolab, Deep Time
- Melody's Echo Chamber (Paris, France)
- 11 Endless Shore
- 12 I Follow You
- Melody's Echo Chamber
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Seapony
- Sambassadeur (Göteborg, Sweden)
- 13 Memories
- Memories Single
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Pelle Carlberg, Burning Hearts
Also On This Episode
This episode features a clip from the S34E04 of Saturday Night Live where Jason Sudeikis plays Joe Biden describing how terrible Wilmington, Delaware is. Also, clips from the classic film The Princess Bride followed by an amazing montage from an episode of ESPN's NFL Kickoff where the hosts incorporated as many lines from The Princes Bride as possible (Youtube)!
SPECIAL "2012 ELECTION, HURRICANE SANDY, NEW AND OLD STUFF HODGEPODGE" EPISODE!
- They Might Be Giants (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 01 Vote or Don't
- Video
- (YouTube)
- similar to: Mono Puff
- Burning Hearts (Turku, Findland)
- 02 I Lost My Colour Vision
- 03 We Walked Among the Trees
- Aboa Sleeping
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Club 8
- Burning Hearts (Turku, Findland)
- 04 Trade Winds
- Extinctions
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: La Sera
- Billy Joel (Long Island, NYC)
- 05 Miami 2017 (Unreleased Demo)
- My Lives
- (iTunes, Amazon)
- similar to: Elton John
- Symphony of Science (Seattle, WA)
- 06 Our Biggest Challenge
- Symphony of Science
- (bandcamp)
- The Gregory Brothers (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 07 Town Hall Debate (feat. Ed Bassmaster)
- Election 2012 Songified EP
- (iTunes)
- known for: Auto-Tune the News
- Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon (San Francisco, CA)
- 08 Love Me, I'm a Liberal
- Prairie Home Invasion
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- cover of: Phil Ochs
- Computer Magic (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 09 Moving Forward
- Orion EP
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Blouse, Air
- Army Navy (Los Angeles,CA)
- 10 World's End
- World's End Single
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Peter, Bjorn and John
- Talking Heads (NYC)
- 11 People Like Us
- True Stories
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: David Byrne
Also On This Episode
This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher about Hurricane Sandy, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg talking about the city's high tax rates, President Obama addressing the DNC (watch), and Chris Rock's PSA for white people from Jimmy Kimmel Live (watch).
Also
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!
- The Ballet (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 01 Is Anybody Out There?
- I Blame Society.
- (vimeo)
- similar to: The Hidden Cameras, The Magnetic Fields
- The Generationals (New Orleans, LA)
- 02 Lucky Numbers
- 03 Sale City
- Lucky Numbers EP
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Love Language
- Craft Spells (San Francisco, CA)
- 04 Party Talk
- Idle Labor
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Wild Nothing
- Craft Spells (San Francisco, CA)
- 05 Warmth
- Gallery
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Wild Nothing
- The Raveonettes (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 06 She Owns the Streets
- Observator
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Crystal Stilts
- Robert Scott (New Zealand)
- 07 Messages
- 08 Tuscan Nights
- Ends Run Together
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Bats
- Lightships (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
- 09 Muddy Rivers
- Electric Cables
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Teenage Fanclub
- La Sera (Los Angeles, CA)
- 10 Dedicated to the One I Love
- Devils Hearts Grow Gold Single
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- cover of: The Shirelles
- Adam Green and Binki Shapiro (NYC)
- 11 Here I Am
- Here I Am Single
- (free download)
- similar to: Adam Green
Also On This Episode
This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher's Friday October 12th, 2012 episode where Bill's New Rule (watch it all) pertains to how there are no apologies from the right-wing no matter how wrong they turn out to be. There is also a clip of The Gregory Brothers' fantastic VP Debate Highlights Songified video.
SPECIAL "SOME OF MY FAVORITE OLDIES" EPISODE!
- Jimmie Rodgers (WA, CA)
- 01 Four Little Girls in the Town of Boston
- Sings Folk Songs
- (Amazon)
- Randy & the Rainbows (Maspeth, Queens, NYC)
- 02 Denise
- Street Corner Symphonies
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
- Nita Rossi (UK)
- 03 Untrue Unfaithful (That Was You)
- One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
- (Amazon)
- similar to: French Music in the 60's
- Neil Diamond (NYC, Las Vegas, NV)
- 04 The Boat That I Row
- The Bang Years 1966-1968
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The Monkees
- Erma Franklin (Detroit, MI)
- 05 Piece of My Heart
- Piece of My Heart
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- popularized late by: Janis Joplin
- Brenton Wood (Shreveport, LA)
- 06 Oogum Boogum
- Oogum Boogum
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Toys (Jamaica, Queens, NYC)
- 07 A Lover's Concerto
- The Toys
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Singing Nun (Brussels, Belgium)
- 08 Dominique
- The Singing Nun
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Murmaids (Los Angeles, CA)
- 09 Popsicles and Icicles
- Oldies By Goodies
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Royal Olympics
- 10 She Say
- 20 Great Cruisin' Favourites of the 50's and 60's
- (Amazon)
- Moose Jackson (Cleveland, OH)
- 12 Big Ten-Inch Record (feat. Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra)
- Wynonie Harris (Los Angeles, CA)
- 13 Keep on Churnin' (feat. Todd Rhoads Orchestra)
- Risque Rhythms: Nasty 50's R&B
- (iTunes, iTunes, Amazon)
- The Playmates (Waterbury, CT)
- 14 Beep Beep
- The Playmates
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Chips (NYC)
- 15 Rubber Biscuit
- Oh My Darling
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- popularized later by: The Blues Brothers
- The Rocky Fellers (Los Angeles, CA)
- 16 Killer Joe
- Look At Killer Joe Go!
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
- The Sonics (Tacoma, WA)
- 17 Strychnine
- Here Are The Sonics
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Jerry Lee Lewis (Ferriday, LA)
- 18 What'd I Say
- The Very Best of Jerry Lee Lewis
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Peter & Gordon (UK)
- 19 A World Without Love
- Rock & Roll Era: 1964
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Fleetwoods (Olympia, WA)
- 20 Come Softly to Me
- Oldies But Goodies
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Sam Cooke (Los Angeles, CA)
- 21 You Send Me
- Greatest Hits
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
Also On This Episode
This episode features a clip from the infomercial for Malt Shop Memories from Time Life Music, which has been discontinued/replaced by Dick Clark's Jukebox Gems.
- Lettie (London, UK)
- 01 Digital
- Good Fortune, Bad Weather
- (Amazon MP3)
- Deep Time (Austin, TX)
- 02 Clouds
- 03 Gold Rush
- Deep Time
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Stereolab
- Black Moth Super Rainbow (Pittsburgh, PA)
- 04 Sun Lips
- 05 Forever Heavy
- Dandelion Gum
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Air
- Emmanuelle Seigner (Paris, France)
- 06 Femme Fatale
- 07 Qui êtes-vous ? (Who are you?) (Duet with Roman Polanski)
- Dingue
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Vanessa Paradis
- Wild Nothing (Blacksburg, VA)
- 08 This Chain Won't Break
- 09 Shadow
- Nocturne
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Beach Fossils
- Lightning Love (Ypsilanti, MI)
- 10 Bobby Thompson
- 11 Orange Glow
- Blonde Album
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Blonds (West Palm Beach, FL)
- 12 Time
- The Bad Ones
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Dirty Projectors
Also On This Episode
This episode features a clip from the September 7th, 2012 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill says he thinks (contrary to popular opinion) that President Barack Obama is good at governing but bad at selling it in speeches.
- The Phenomenal Handclap Band (NYC)
- 01 Following
- Form & Control
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- The Vaccines (London, UK)
- 02 Teenage Icon
- Teenage Icon Single
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Ramones
- The Vaccines (London, UK)
- 03 No Hope
- No Hope EP
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Ramones
- Spector (London, UK)
- 04 Chevy Thunder
- 05 Grey Shirt & Tie
- Enjoy it While it Lasts
- (hypem, Amazon)
- similar to: The Vaccines
- Caveman (NYC)
- 06 My Time
- 07 A Country's King of Dreams
- 08 Thankful
- CoCo Beware
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Grizzly Bear, Real Estate
- Trailer Trash Tracys (London, UK)
- 09 You Wish You Were Red
- 10 Los Angered
- Ester
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: The xx, Blouse
- Beat Connection (Seattle, WA)
- 11 Silver Screen
- Silver Screen EP
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Blackbird Blackbird
Also On This Episode
This episode features a clip from WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show with guest-host (from NPR's On the Media) Brooke Gladstone interviewing Chris Stringer about his fascinating book Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth (Amazon, iTunes) on the origins of modern humans.
- POP ETC (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 01 Keep it for Your Own
- POP ETC
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- formally they were called: The Morning Benders
- Diiv (Brooklyn, NYC)
- 02 Doused
- 03 Air Conditioning
- Oshin
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Beach Fossils, Smith Westerns, The Cure, Luna
- Papercuts (San Francisco, CA)
- 04 The Messenger
- Fading Parade
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- Papercuts (San Francisco, CA)
- 05 Future Primitive
- You Can Have What You Want
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- OK Go (Chicago, L.A., NYC)
- 06 This Too Shall Pass (Marching Band Version) VIDEO
- 07 Gigantic
- Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (Extra Nice Edition)
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- cover of: The Pixies
- Josh Rouse (Valencia, Spain)
- 08 I Will Live on Islands
- El Turista
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Paul Simon
- Josh Rouse and The Long Vacations (Valencia, Spain)
- 09 Diggin' in the Sand
- Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations
- (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar to: Simon & Garfunkel
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (Los Angeles, CA)
- 10 Only In My Dreams
- Only In My Dreams Single
- (iTunes, Amazon MP3)
- one lyric sounds like: Stephin Merritt
Also On This Episode
On this episode I talk about the awesome iPhone app Shazam (app store) which magically identifies almost any song no matter how crummy the audio conditions you're in. It's a free app, so get it today and be amazed. Also, this episode features a clip from an episode of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) where she interviews David Kirkpatrick, the Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, about the similarities he's seen reporting on both the christian right in America and the islamic right in the middle east.