S5,E04: 03/17/08 (Snake and Jet's Amazing Bullit Band, Adam Green, Taken By Trees, Pete & The Pirates, Stephen Malkmus and the
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- Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- "Kolmilan"
- X-Ray Spirit (Amazon)
- similar: Apparat Organ Quartet
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- Adam Green (Brooklyn, NYC)
- "Morning After Midnight", "Tropical Island", and "Grandma Shirley and Papa"
- Sixes and Sevens (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar: Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson
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- Taken By Trees (Sweden)
- "Sweet Child O' Mine"
- Sweet Child O' Mine EP (iTunes, eMusic)
- similar: The Concretes
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- Pete & The Pirates (Reading, UK)
- "She Doesn't Belong to Me" and "Mr Understanding"
- Little Death (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar: Apartment, The Ceasars
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- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (Portland, OR)
- "Gardenia"
- Real Emotional Trash (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)
- similar: Pavement, Yo La Tengo
ALSO ON THIS SHOW
Clips from the March 13th, 2008 episode of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) featuring Dan Kennedy talking about life in a corporate record label's marketing department, and Eliot Van Buskirk discussing music's digital future. As well as a clip about Bush's tax cuts at work from March 14's The Rachel Maddow Show.