First up, New York City's awesome, modern-day-ragtime-band The New Rags did two songs off their new EP Take Jennie to Brooklyn (Silent Stereo Records). We heard "Your Room" and one that reminds me of older Of Montreal called "Love of My Life". Next was a song by former Pixie and longtime quality rocker Frank Black called "I Burn Today" from his brand new album Honeycomb (iTunes, Amazon). Then another New York City indie rock band, The Cloud Room, with their song "We Sleep in the Ocean" from their self-titled debut album (iTunes, Amazon). They have a great video for their standout song "Hey Now Now" on their website as well. And finally Andover, Massachusetts' longtime pop-punk band Piebald did "Part of Your Body is Made Out of Rock" from their 2004 album All Ears, All Eyes, All the Time (iTunes, Amazon). This week's episode has a Sounds in My Head first... an ad! But it's not really an ad, because no one is paying me to play it. It's really just a promo for The Dorktones Podcast. It's a cool show out of Norway that features classic surf/soul/reggae/rock/etc. This week's show also had a clip from the July 21st episode of Air America Radio's The Majority Report about Bush's "bold pick" of John Roberts for the supreme court.

First up, the UK's Interpol, known as Apartment, did "Everyone Says I'm Paranoid" from their EP by the same name (iTunes, Amazon). Then Austin's Ghostland Observatory did "Silver City" from their recently released, debut Delete, Delete, I Eat Meat (Indierect Records). After listening to Ghostland Observatory's album I was reminded of New York City's The Bravery, so we heard their fantastic "The Ring Song" from their self-titled debut (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music) from earlier this year. And finally on this episode, California's alt/country King Straggler did "Rebel" from their new, also self-title debut (iTunes, CD Baby).This week's episode features a clip The Muppet Show. Which incidentally will have a complete season one DVD box set release on August 9th. Pre-order yours now at Amazon. If you're into that sort of thing, like I am, check out my favorite Muppet website: Toughpigs.com.

First up, California's prolific lo-fi indie rockers The Mountain Goats did "This Year" from their recent album The Sunset Tree (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then Canada's also lo-fi, also indie rockers The Unicorns did "I was Born (a Unicorn)" from their 2003 album Who Will Cut Your Hair When I'm Gone? (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then Scotland's now-defunct The Vaselines did "Son of a Gun" from their 1994 collection The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History (Amazon, Other Music). And finally we heard The Real Tuesday Weld with "The Ugly and the Beautiful" from his 2004 album I, Lucifer (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music).This week's episode features a clip from Democracy Now!, where they played a clip of FoxNews' Britt Hume following the tragic attacks on the London public transit system. Here's the RSS Feed to paste into iTunes to download every episode automatically!

(SPECIAL JULY 4th EPISODE!) First up, the late, great Elliott Smith did the fitting song "Independence Day" from his XO album (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then another everybody-knows-it-and-better-own-it song good for listening to on July 4th, the Violent Femmes with "American Music" from their 1991 album Why do Birds Sing? (iTunes, Amazon). Next was Sounds in My Head favorites' The Essex Green out of the love and wonder that is Brooklyn, with a song asking you to pray for people in southern states. Not a bad idea, Lord knows they need it down there. The song was "Southern Sates" from their 2001 album The Long Goodbye (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). And finally Denton, Texas' own Little Jack Melody & his Young Turks did "America" (from West Side Story) released on their album World of Fireworks (Amazon, Band's Store). You can also watch a video I made for this song. This weeks episode features a special David Cross interlude perfect for all the flaggots, from his 2002 album Shut Up You Fucking Baby! (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music).

First up, a new song by New York City's Laura Cantrell called "Bees" from her (also new, obviously) album Humming by the Flowered Vine (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music) Her song "14th Street" is available for free. Next was Chicago's Ok Go with their brand new cover of The Cure's "The Love Cats" from their Do What You Want EP (iTunes, Amazon). No it's not AS good as the original, but hey not all covers are, listen to Coverville sometime if you don't believe me. Afters that the 1960's pop sensation Jimmy Justice (who was admittedly less than a "sensation" in the US, but big-time in the UK) did a version of one of my favorite standards "I'm Beginning to See the Light" from a collection called Ain't That Funny (The Pye Anthology) (iTunes, Amazon). Then, because I was inspired by their awesome-even-without-Neko Case show at Celebrate Brooklyn over the weekend, we heard the title track from the upcoming (August 9th) New Pornographers album Twin Cinema (Download from Matador's site, pre-order from Amazon). And finally since a little bit of Laura Cantrell is always better when followed with a little more Laura Cantrell — and because i just re-watched Oliver Stone's epic JFK — we heard Laura Cantrell's cover of the old Homer Henderson song "Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine" from her original Hello Recording Club release from 1994 (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). The episode features clips from both Bill Hicks and the June 24th episode of On the Media from NPR. UPDATE: This week's show (as of Wednesday June 29th) has been optimized for the new iTunes v4.9! Now it has jump-to chapter markers and lots of art and links!

(SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG, STUFF-YOU-CAN'T-BUY EPISODE!) First up, a barely released version of The Reverend Horton Heat's great song "Party Mad" from a 1990 local music collection called Tales from the Edge Vol. 1. This CD was released by one of the very first "alternative" format radio stations in the country, the original EDGE which was later bought by Clear Channel and chained all over the country. Still in it's infancy in 1990, 94.5 The Edge was truly "The Cutting Edge of Rock" (read an article featuring the creator of both the station of the Tales from the Edge series). A notably worse, but still decent version of "Party Mad" was released a full 14 years later on their 2004 album Revival (iTunes). Next was the bootleg version of Coldplay's "Trouble" which made it's way into the rotation of many radio stations in 2000 much to the chagrin of the band. Radio station's largely acquiesced to the wishes of the band, and the song was never heard from again, nor was it's remixer. After that The Concretes did "Teen Love" from their first, not-so-released (in the U.S. anyway), and now out-of-print album Boy, You Better Run Now. Then another anonymous mashup from the seedy underbelly of the internet, Björk vs. The Supremes with "Isobel (The Supremes Mix)" or sometimes referred to as "The Old School Mix", this song has obviously never been released. After that, Bob Peck did "Sweet 16" from the RE/Search collection's Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 1 (which is perhaps the most purchasable thing in this episode). Then Sounds in My Head favorite They Might Be Giants did "Your Racist Friend (The Sampladelic Remix)" from the 12" Don't Let's Start single from 1990. The un-remixed verion can be found on their landmark album Flood (iTunes). Then Davíd Garza (from his early days as Twang Twang Shocka Boom) did "Always Give Your Love Away" from the cassette-only, 1990 Me So Twangy. And finally R.E.M. did "Shiny Happy People (The Pop Mix)" from a radio promo from 1991. No, it's not an email hoax, NPR and PBS really are in jeopardy! If you haven't, PLEASE go sign the petition to let congress know that you don't want public broadcasting destroyed just because the Bush administration cut taxes for billionaires and thus destroyed the federal budget.

First up, The Jackson Five have been remixed along with a good many of their motown pals on Motown Remixed (iTunes, Amazon) which takes the Verve Remixed series to the next logical level. We heard the song "I Want You Back" the Z-Trip Remix. Next Queen-meets-Devo-esque Sparks did "Suburban Homeboy" from their 2002 album Lil' Beethoven (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Next was Dalla... er, make that LA's Sara Radle (she recently relocated from Texas to California) did "Dig Those Sounds" from her most recent EP People You've Been Before (order from her label Jeez Louise Records). I have featured her previous band Lucy Loves Schroeder on The Sounds in My Head before (listen to the August 9th, 2004 show, it's also all in the archive). Sara Radle also has a new album coming out this fall so be on the listen-out for that. And finally, Virginia's Sparklehorse did "Gold Day" from 2001 album It's a Wonderful Life (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music).