First up, New York City's Luna with the song "Malibu Love Nest" from their new (and final) album Rendezvous (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music) which is really good, if a bit more mellow than past albums. Then from the David Bern initiated WIRED Magazine cd Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. we heard my own abridged version of UK's The Rapture's song "Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix)" (original in iTunes) . The cd is awesome, it contains new, unreleased music by The Beastie Boys, Le Tigre, Thievery Corporation, and Matmos to name only a few, and comes free with this month's WIRED, so rush to newsstands now... or go to creativecommons.org and download the whole thing for free. Next we heard Brooklyn's Interpol with the song "Evil" from their most recent album Antics (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). And finally, we heard the Elliott Smith with "Kings Crossing" from his final album From a Basement on the Hill (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music) that was mostly finished when he tragically died in October of 2003.

(SPECIAL POST-BUSH-ELECTION EPISODE!) First up we hear the UK's Spiritualized with "Feel So Sad" from their Complete Works release (iTunes doesn't have the whole record, Amazon, Other Music). Next another UK band, The Sundays, did "Cry" from their 1997 album Static and Silence (iTunes, Amazon). Then we hear New York City's Saint Eve with their cover of REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" from their album Elixir (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, potty mouths The Frogs did a song about THE PEOPLE WHO REVERSED THE VOTE TALLIES IN FAVOR OF BUSH IN FLORIDA, CHANGING THE ELECTIONS' OUTCOME THERE AND THUS IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY called "U Bastards" from their record Bananimals (Amazon, Other Music). [Because Saint Eve's version isn't as inspiring as REM's I put their version in here too.]

(SPECIAL ELECTION EPISODE!) First up the always great, always political New York City band Le Tigre with their song "Viz" from their new album This Island (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then Seattle's The Long Winters did "The Commander Thinks Aloud" which can be found on the Future Soundtrack for America (iTunes, Amazon, McSweeney's with Book). Next was indie artist Ian Rhett did "(Didn't Know I was) UnAmerican" which is a free download, and best when listened to while viewing the accompanying flash movie video (his site). And lastly Brooklyn's brilliant Piñataland do an updated version of "Little Know Ye Who's Comin'" for 2004 (formally John Quincy Adams' 1824 campaign song) which is a free download from their site. If you like The Decemberists (iTunes), you should really check out Piñataland and vice versa. (At the end of the show, there's a bonus Le Tigre song, "New Kicks", also from their new album This Island.)

(SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EPISODE!) First up The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt's band The Future Bible Heroes with their spooky song "She-Devil's of the Deep" from their album Memories of Love (Amazon, Other Music). Next, Los Angeles' West Indian Girl asks the halloween appropriate question "What are You Afraid Of?" from their self-titled new album (iTunes, Amazon). Then, Germany's Stereo Total did a song all about "The Monster" from the re-release of their Musique Automatique (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). And lastly, finishing our Halloween Episode of The Sounds in My Head, the greatness that was the UK's Mono (not to be confused with the Japanese Mono) with their perfectly eerie "Madhouse" from the soundtrack to the crappy 1998 remake of Hitchcock's classic Psycho (Amazon). Mono is (sadly) long gone, but singer Siobhan de Mare has gone on to form Violet Indiana with ex-Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie which (also, sadly) isn't terribly good.

First up is the Australian band Cut Copy with their song "Going Nowhere" from their new release Bright Like Neon Love (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music), it's an album that sounds like a cross between Daft Punk and the best songs to come out of 80's new wave. In other words they sound like what VHS or Beta wish they sounded like. Then we enjoyed "Eros' Entropic Tundra" by Of Montreal from their latest release Satanic Panic in the Attic (Amazon, Other Music) which is one of my (many) favorite records of 2004. Next was Bill Withers' classic R&B tune "Use Me" which can be found all number of places, including his greatest hits (iTunes, Amazon). And finally on the show, an uncommon "sound in my head": Country Music. And I don't mean some classy old-school country or some quality rockabilly. I'm talking schlocky, over produced, "young country." But in this case, it's music for a good cause, and while I'm almost ashamed to admit it, I actually kinda like the song. After a few listens it really did grow on me (like a fungus no doubt). Check out Honky Tonkers for Truth and their song "Takin' My Country Back." Available on their website, and perhaps even heard on some mainstream country stations... I wouldn't know.

First up is the delightful return of Fatboy Slim with "Don't Let the Man Get You Down" from his brand new Palookaville (iTunes, Amazon). It's a really good new record that offers something for anyone who's ever liked a previous Fatboy Slim song. Next we heard "These Things Take Time" by the New Zealand act The Brunettes from their album Mars Loves Venus (website). Then Sweden's The Concretes did "You Can't Hurry Love" from their new self-titled album (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Then Rilo Kiley did "It's a Hit" from their new album More Adventurous (iTunes, Amazon, Other Music). Normally that would be all, but since I liked it so much there's a bonus Fatboy Slim song from Palookaville, we heard "The Journey" which features Lateef. This episode is admittedly a bit Fatboy Slim-centric, but what can I say? I love Fatboy Slim. It won't happen again anytime soon, I promise. More diversity coming next week.This week show features a "news update" from The Majority Report with Sam Seder & Janeane Garofalo from Air America Radio, which you can download in full from Air America Place.

First up is Norway's St. Thomas with his great song "An Artist with a Brilliant Disguise" from his album Let's Grow Together - The Comeback of St. Thomas (Amazon UK, Other Music). Next up was former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell's old band The Gentle Waves with the incredibly great song "Falling from Grace" from their record Swansong for You (Amazon UK (cheaper than in the US), Amazon). Then we heard New York City's Mascott with her song "Martyr's Tune" from her recent album Dreamer's Book (Amazon, Other Music). And finally this week we heard the west coast's Inouk with a rockin' song called "James Bond" from their Search for the Bees EP (iTunes).