S4,E16: 9/03/07 (Rilo Kiley, Alamo Race Track, Dan Deacon, Kate Nash, The New Pornographers)

First up Los Angeles' Rilo Kiley have a new album called Under the Blacklight (iTunes, Amazon) from which we heard "Silver Lining" which had to grow on me, but ended up being my favorite song on the record. Next Amsterdam's Alamo Race Track did a song (that reminds me of Ideal Free Distribution) called "Kiss Me Bar" followed by the title-track from their album Black Cat John Brown (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon). Then Baltimore's "absurdist electronic music composer/performer" Dan Deacon did "The Crystal Cat" from his most recent release Spiderman of the Rings (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon). Next "the thinking person's Lilly Allen" (as listener Sam described her to me) aka Britain's Kate Nash did "We Get On" from her debut album Made of Bricks (Amazon). And finally Canada's The New Pornographers have a new record from which we heard the title-track Challengers (iTunes, Amazon).

This episode features clips from Real Time with Bill Maher talking about eating meat and it's effect on the environment (podcast).