First up, Australia's Treetops did their single "Gospel" from the EP by the same name (Amazon). Next was Albany's The Gazetteers doing "Bedroom Community" from their debut album Territory Songs (iTunes, Amazon). (Note: you can download this song for free from their label's site.) Then Minnesota's indie pop/folk band The Owls did "Air" from their album Our Hopes and Dreams (iTunes, Amazon). Next Portland's Boy Crazy did "Stark Street" from their 2001 album Foreign Words (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, since I have a soft-spot in my heart for the Muppets, I thought I should let you know about something pretty amazing that my friend Jodi alerted me to. An online Muppet music archive! They have TONS of Muppet music which has been out of print for decades, that has never been released on CD at all, and more. And all of it is just free to download, for as long as they don't get shut down I guess. Much of it is cheesy and doesn't really hold up to the test of time, but other stuff is pure genius. We heard a favorite of mine, a cover of Billy Joel's classic "New York State of Mind" performed by Rolf the Dog on Ol' Brown Ears is Back (go to download).

(SPECIAL SOUTHEAST-ASIAN EPISODE!) First up, essential Bollywood classic "Jann Pehechaan Ho" by Mohammed Rafi as featured in the movie and on the soundtrack for Ghost World (iTunes, Amazon), which makes getting your hands on that quality cut simple. Next Los Angeles' faux-Cambodian awesomeness Dengue Fever did "Tip My Canoe" from their album Escape from Dragon House (iTunes, Amazon). Next another great Bollywood track, remixed to be even better, "Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha (Remix)" by the UK's The Bollywood Brass Band from a compilation album called Funkadelica - Dancing to a Different Drum (iTunes, Amazon), which is surprisingly good. Then we heard a great cover of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" by Sodsai Chaengkij which is my favorite song on Thai Beat a Go-Go Vol. 2 (iTunes, Amazon) which features Thai bands from the 60's doing Go-Go music. Yes, it's greatness. Then Deng Bai Ying did "Shuang Shuang Yan" from the soundtrack to In the Mood for Love (Amazon). And finally we heard "Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint" from the soundtrack to the Spike Lee Joint Inside Man (iTunes, Amazon). The song is a remix by Panjabi MC featuring Sukhwinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi performing the classic song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" by A. R. Rahman for the film Dil Se.

First up, Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn's first band, the UK's Marine Girls did "In Love" from a collection of their early-80's-but-non-early-80's-sounding songs called Lazy Ways / Beach Party (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard two fabulous tracks from the new fabulous The Pipettes album We are the Pipettes (iTunes, Amazon). We heard "Because It's Not Love (But It's Still a Feeling)" and "One Night Stand". Then New Hampshire's The Juan Maclean did "Give Me Every Little Thing" from his 2005 album Less Than Human (iTunes, Amazon). And finally she may have new music out, but Kirsty Hawkshaw's old band Opus III (also from the UK) was pretty quality too. We heard take-me-back-to-the-early-90s hit "It's a Fine Day" from the album Mind Fruit (Amazon). There are several remixes in iTunes, as well as a vocals only version, which is kinda cool, on a compilation called Pillows and Prayers vol. 2 (iTunes), which also happens to feature the Marine Girls. Go figure. This episode features a clip from the August 4th episode of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio about Pat Robertson.

First up, Sweden's indie pop Komeda did "Happyment" from their 1998 album What Makes it Go? (iTunes, Amazon) which is their best. Next we heard two short songs by UK pop duo Pipas' best album A Cat Escaped (iTunes, Amazon), 2002 "Rock and-or Roll" and "Barbapapa". Then for something completely different, perhaps the best, certainly one of the most prolific, Brazilian samba pioneer Nelson Cavaquinho did "Nao Vem" from his acustic bossa nova record from 1977 called Quatro Grandes Do Samba (Amazon). And finally a couple of songs from Athens, Georgia' Casper & the Cookies' new album The Optimist's Club (HHBTM, Stick Figure). We heard "Barking in the Garden of Ill Repute" and "Duchamp's Camera". To finish out this episode of TSiMH, another track from Komeda's What Makes it Go? (iTunes), we heard "It's Alright, Baby". This week's episode features two clips featuring the evil, crazy bitch Ann Coulter. The first from the Late Show with David Letterman (watch), the second from the CBC's program The Fifth Estate hosted by veteran journalist Bob McKeown (watch the whole special).

Special Extra-Long, SONGS You Might Have Missed By Bands Often Played On TSiMH Episode!) First up Florida's Electric President did "I'm Not the Lonely Son (I'm the Ghost)" from the second of their recently released EPs You Have the Right to Remain Awesome (iTunes, Juno Records UK). Next NYC's defunct Luna has released a collection of the bands covers over the years cleverly called Lunafied (iTunes), many of which having been hard to obtain in the past. We heard a cover of Blondie's "In the Flesh". Then Sweden's The Concretes (who incidentally, 5 hours after this show went live announced the departure of key Concrete and lead singer Victoria Bergsman, what horrible news...) they also have a new awesome album of course, but did you catch the singles that have come with it? We heard "The First Time" a B-Side from their On the Radio single (iTunes, Amazon), but there are other quality previously unreleased tracks on their Chosen One single (iTunes, Amazon) too. Next Scotland's Camera Obscura have seen the release of their new album Let's Get Out of This Country (iTunes, Amazon) I mentioned was coming out a little while back, and it is of course glorious. We heard "Come Back Margaret", which was great live. Next fellow Scots Belle & Sebastian did "Baby Jane" which can be found on their new EP White Collar Boy (iTunes, Amazon). Then Sweden's Jens Lekman who is on tour in the U.S. right now did "You are the Light (Reprise)" from You are the Light single (iTunes, Amazon). Next the UK's preeminent dj Fatboy Slim released a best of recently called Why Try Harder (iTunes, Amazon) which in addition to the loads of quality you'd expect has a couple of previously unreleased cuts, most notably "That Old Pair of Jeans". And finally Austin's Voxtrot did "Four Long Days" from their most recent EP Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives (Amazon, insound). This week's episode features a bunch of clips. One from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which can be seen in full at One Good Move. As well as a couple of clips from one of the last episodes of Air America Radio's The Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder (Janeane has left the show for good, hopefully Sam won't follow) who in the first of the two clips was basically all just Jack Hitt. We also heard a clip from The Rachel Maddow Show with Kent Jones, also on AAR.

First up Australian mix-master Gotye (gore-ti-yeah) did "Learnalilgivinanlovin" from his new record Like Drawing Blood (online, digital) which you should buy right now. Next was New York City's own 14-member, all-female accordion ensemble The Main Squeeze Orchestra doing a cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which you can download for free from their website. Then we heard a great track from the equally great new Sufjan Stevens album The Avalanche - Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album (iTunes, Amazon) called "The Henney Buggy Band". And finally we heard ex-Ben Folds Five drummer turned singer/songwriter Darren Jessee's band Hotel Lights' version of "End of the Tour" from the new substantially-less-than-awesome They Might Be Giants tribute album Hello Radio: The Songs of They Might Be Giants (iTunes, Amazon). This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, addressing the gap between the rich and poor with John Hodgman. You can watch the whole un-edited clip at One Good Move.

First up, New Jersey-bred Daniel Smith has a new album under the name Danielson which is the best to date from the varied Danielson Familie, et al bands. We heard "Did I Step On Your Trumpet" from Ships (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard two songs Chicago's Office (who are playing this week in NYC), "Dominos" and "Oh My" both from their 2005 album Q&A (iTunes). Then Los Angeles' The Elected (a large part of Rilo Kiley, but with no Jenny Lewis) did "The Bank and Trust" from their newest album Sun, Sun, Sun (iTunes, Amazon). And finally the UK's Boy Least Likely To did a fun cover of George Michael's "Faith" which can be heard on their website, or downloaded from the internets and will probably eventually make its way onto a compilation or something. This week's episode featured two clips of George W. Bush being retarded, as usual.