1. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

2. Lady GaGa featuring Colby O'Donis - Just Dance

3. The Killers - Human
They're still on my list, because i think their new song is great!

4. Oasis - I'm Outta Time

5. Cat Power - Dark End Of The Street

6. Radiohead - 15 Step| Myspace Video

7. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

8. Beyonce - If I Were a Boy

9. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive | Myspace Video

10. Kanye West - Love Lockdown

Flashback
Silver Penciled (The End Has No End) have already mentioned about how cool The Strokes are. I want to share a song from their masterpiece Is This It:
The Strokes - Trying Your Luck

I've been listening to Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare a lot recently. My previous review was pure fun, i read again and again, it's so funny. And i noticed my bad point on this album and i need to correct that.

The Last Shadow Puppets is one of my favorite in the year, and Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare was actually very good! It needs some spin, then you're addicted to their guitar chords and lyrics. I felt that i had to correct this mistake and tell this is a great record. 8/10

Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favor

Also:
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me

The collection of Cat Power's latest cover songs is Dark End of the Street due digitally and on a limited edition double 10" in a gatefold sleeve December 9 from Matador. She sings songs from the Pogues, James Carr, Sandy Denny, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, and Aretha Franklin. Great covers from R&B, folk and soul artists.

mp3: Cat Power - Dark End Of The Street

Tracklist:
1. "Auld Triangle (The Pogues)
2. "Dark End of the Street (James Carr)
3. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention)
4. "Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
5. "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (Otis Redding)
6. "It Ain't Fair (Aretha Franklin)

I just discovered this new band while surfing around looking at new releases, and their minimalist sound and enchanted, hypnotic, mantra-like music snagged my attention immediately. The band's write-up about their music on MySpace is a little... out there. Okay, a lot out there. To quote only a small portion, they say "It’s a cactus trance of ancient metronomes, ESP murmurs and pomegranate flavoured candy canes". I have only one thing to say.

This song is chilly.

It's the kind of thing you'd expect to form a glaze of ice on your speakers, and I would not be surprised to hear it show up in a movie about serial killers. Scratchy, off-tune strings stalk through the whole song whilst the twinkles of stars (or bells or knives?) in the night dance in the foreground, as the vocals lurk beyond in the cold.

Judging by the songs I've heard thus far, St. Just Vigilantes new album Pastor of Oaks, Sheppherd of Stones promises to be a mostly meditative (AKA quiet, trace-inducingly dull) experience. This song may well be the standout in an otherwise flat CD.

St. Just Vigilantes- Rose Grenades

Ben Kweller releases 'Changing Horses' on February 3rd (2009). And we reveal joyful the first song "Fight" which is can be streamable on Kweller's myspace. Ballad Of Wendy Baker is also very great song that i've recently discovered. Changing Horses combines classical American style songwriting and rock roots. Indie rock singer songwriter Ben Kweller tells his music gets darker on this fifth studio album. Love Changing Horses.

Tracklist:
1. "Gypsy Rose"
2. "Old Hat"
3. "Fight"
4. "Hurtin' You"
5. "Ballad of Wendy Baker"
6. "Sawdust Man"
7. "Wantin' Her Again"
8. "Things I Like to Do"
9. "On Her Down"
10. "Homeward Bound"

This is the opening track to Franz Ferdinand's new album "Tonight". The track is made up of the stems from the remix competition for 'Ulysses'. Franz Ferdinand have announced details of their comeback single, "Ulysses". I know that we are all Franz Ferdinand fans! Such a great fun, come on lets get high! I'm loving Ulysses and third upcoming album "Tonight" will shake and rock your world. You can stream the song on official Myspace too.

Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

If I had to pick a current favorite song, this would be IT. I’ve only had this song for three days and I’ve already listened to it more times than I can count (actually, the play count says 15. But it’s SO GOOD IT SEEMED LIKE MORE). ‘Sushi’ is pure fun, and it’s got an awesome beat. There aren’t very many songs that make me want to leap up and perform some kind of ridiculous dance right here in front of my computer. But this one does. And I’m not the ridiculous dance type.

Kyle Andrews has an album out, ‘Real Blasty’, and I really want to get my hands on it. He describes his music as alternative/acoustic/electronica which is a fascinating mix, since I would have thought acoustic and electronic music were mortal enemies fated never to meet lest one should perish in the ensuing battle. So it’s odd to see that they have spawned child as intriguing as ‘Real Blasty’. Download this song, cherish it in all it’s sushy goodness, and then go to his MySpace page if you want to download his free music sampler too.

Kyle Andrews- Sushi

http://www.myspace.com/kyleandrews

Marianne’s new album Easy Come Easy Go recorded over a two week period at the historic Sear Sound studios in New York, All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal. The album includes 18 great covers of different music styles.

It's wonderful to hear new songs, i think Marianne did a great cover album with Easy Come Easy Go. It's so great, she feels the music inside like she did before. And her voice is so deep on Children of Stone. Interpretations of songs from Morrissey (Dear God Please Help Me) and The Decemberists (The Crane Wife 3) are surprisingly amazing. Check out official Marianne Myspace page for more track to stream.

Marianne Faithfull - Children of Stone with Rufus Wainwright (originally by Espers)

1. John Vanderslice - Time to Go

2. Piano Magic - Dark Horses
3. The Rifles - The Great Escape
4. Squarepusher - Planet Gear | watch Video
5. The Decemberists - The Tain | video
6. Final Fantasy - Blue Imelda | youtube Video7. James Blunt - Love Love Love
8. Howling Bells - Into The Chaos

Howling Bells, 'Into the Chaos' filmed at the Hoxton...listen live.

9. Jay Jay Pistolet - Happy Birthday You
10. The Streets - Heaven For The Weather

Limited edition single featuring the new song Used To Be, which contemplates the spiritual and physical effects of life on the road, of love, and of getting older. Beach House never disappoint.

Download
Beach House - Used To Be

Listen at Myspace
Watch Live Version

I previously wrote about Weekend which is the best The Sea and Cake song on Car Alarm. New album requires some more spins to get the good music. If you think you love indie music, then you should hear about The Sea and Cake. Don't know if you have heard the singer Archer Prewitt, i have all studio albums of him. He's such a great musician!
The Sea and Cake - Weekend

Title song will be the first single of next The Rifle record. I loved The Great Escape, however i haven't listened new album but The Great Escape Ep. The first album was amazing, i'm looking forward for this.

The Rifles - The Great Escape

Tracklist:
1. Science In Violence
2. The Great Escape
3. Fool To Sorrow
4. Sometimes
5. Toerag
6. History
7. Winter Calls
8. Out In The Past
9. Romeo And Julie
10. The General
11. For The Meantime

A magical band from Uk, Piano Magic play electronica, post-rock, baroque, alternative, even dark rock music, and they're one of the greatest things that i've listened recently. If you like melancholic rock music such as The Smiths, Joy Division or Nico you should check this out. This Dark Horses EP is full of amazing, romantic and downbeat songs. These songs are great!

Piano Magic - Dark Horses

1. The Killers - Human

2. Katy Perry - Hot n Cold

3. Bjork feat. Thom Yorke - Nattura | Listen
4. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie | Video
5. Seal - A Change is Gonna Come| Listen
6. Tracy Chapman - Sing For You

7. Thom Yorke - Tchk Harrowdown Jump Rmx | Stream

8. The Charlatans - Oh! Vanity

9. Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric

10. Beyonce - If I Were a Boy

Because The Strokes are awesome. I've been listening to their three albums a lot lately and... they're awesome. What more can be said? I've heard they may or may not be releasing a new album in 2009 after a many year hiatus. Here's hoping. But it's just a random rumor I saw so who knows. For now, I highly recommend going out and buying their albums and enjoying. Oh, and listen to my favorite from 2003 album Room On Fire:

The End Has No End- The Strokes.

New album "Our Bright Future" available November 10th (Europe) and November 11th (US).

The first song from Our Bright Future is Thinking of You which is a usual and sweet Tracy Chapman song. I'm loving the song!

Tracy Chapman - Thinking of You

The first solo in a decade, and you can reach tour dates here:
http://www.tracychapman.com

Find album details and listen new songs here:
http://www.myspace.com/tracychapman

Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" is covered by R&B artist Seal, like many Sam Cooke covers from R&B and Soul artists; Aretha Franklin ,Otis Redding, Al Green, Leela James. Wayne Brady. For me Seal's best cover song is Walk on By by Burt Bacharach. If you want to check it out Sam Cooke song by Seal's soft voice, then listen this!

Seal - A Change is Gonna Come

Texas based folk rock band Peter and the Wolf releases a new album after debut Lightness (2006).

Once you listen the whole Mellow Owl, you leave your chair with a pleasant smile on your face. Previous album Lightness is already full of peaceful tunes, and Mellow Owl follows the same line and included with many sorrowful tracks that i find amazing. Moondance Of Nightowl, Bottle Rockettes and City Birds are few emotional tracks of these amazing melancholic folk rock album. 7/10

Peter And The Wolf - City Birds

My main impression of Ben Folds' new album Way to Normal is that it jumps all over the place, and it doesn’t feel like a coherent unit. If it wasn’t for Ben Fold’s voice in each one, I could convince myself I was listening to a playlist of random songs. There is a thread tying them together, but it’s a thin one, and unraveling in places. I have to give it a 5/10, because after the first five songs the album, in my opinion, really falls apart. I would not have bought this album, but would probably buy a few choice singles. Ben Folds is a veteran artist but this album nonetheless feels really immature, repetitive, and clunky, with uninspired lyrics. The second play through was a little more satisfactory, but my initial impressions still remained. I think this an album where different people will have vastly different opinions on it.

The first song, Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) feels more like a joke song, like something someone would throw together for fun. It’s hard to imagine that he choose it for the opening number of his album. Dr. Yang is a crazed bombast of sound condensed into a very small space. It’s a really fun song with some fiery piano playing, and it stands out like a lightning bolt amidst a lot of other dull songs.

The Frown Song is a pretty good song, and compared to most of the others, great. It’s catchy enough, and decent listening. It’s more like the Ben Folds you probably know and love. You Don’t Know Me is a good single. It’s undeniably the most popular song, and out of experience I can tell you it’s extremely catchy. Before Cologne is only 50 seconds long, and serves no real point but filler. I really liked the next song, Cologne, because it’s grounded and enjoyable to listen to, with a nice soft melancholy that still has the energy of the other songs. It was the only one with lyrics that felt worth listening to.

Errant Dog is kind of a lame song. It has some corny rhyming in the lyrics which just bugged me, and the background music is a mashing jumbled mess. The singing and lyrics overall are pretty poor. Free Coffee is really just a vaguely musical recitation of a boring day. I’d rather just have a boring day on my own and not spend four minutes listening his lousy day. The opening to Bitch Went Nuts is kinda funny, but it’s just another reiteration of the shitty day song, only involving a crazy girlfriend. At least it’s sort of and more musical, but still… it’s just not a song I’d put on my iPod. It’s like a madman played accompaniment for a college Sophomore who’s just ranting about his girlfriend on YouTube.

Brainwascht was flat and really repetitive, non-memorable, or memorable in a bad way. Effington was bordering on interesting, meaningful, decent… but didn’t actually go there. It just came off as cheesiness building up into annoying clanging piano. The singing in Kylie From Connecticut is a little vapid, but otherwise it’s a decent song, still not particularly memorable, especially the plodding section in the middle of the song which is pretty much dead air and a single piano key stroke every ten seconds. But at least this song is easy on the ears.

5/10

Ben Folds- Cologne

Strange, intelligent, sometimes natural and sometimes spiritual Bjork releases her amazing new single Nattura, and Thom Yorke has done some kind of sonorous backing vocals which he did before on Radiohead's Kid A record. Like The Dull Flame of Desire, it's another singular Bjork song.

Bjork feat. Thom Yorke - Nattura

1. The Raveonettes - Young And Beautiful
Danish duo makes my mouth open, it's a powerful rock song (Should i say a shoegaze song?)

2. Coldplay - Lost
Official Promo Video for Coldplay's fantastic new single Lost uploaded on youtube. They sound better with the recent record, i think the band turns to an iconic rock band.

3. Duffy - Rain On Your Parade
Check the Duffy's new video, it's hot and good, now watch video on the tube.

4. The Verve - Rather Be
Negative reviews are always there, and i think i love The Verve's new Forth. Watch official promo video.

5. Paul Weller - Sea Spray

6. Levellers - Burn America Burn

7. Red Light Company - Scheme Eugene

8. Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be EP

9. Adele - Make You Feel My Love
New Adele single released Oct 27th, and it's another depressed Adele song. Listen

10. The View - 5 Rebbecca's
Your average indie rock or maybe punk rock band.

Flashback Music
Arctic Monkeys - When Sun Goes Down
From their debut record, When Sun Goes Down is one of the rare Arctic Monkeys songs which makes you listen more and more.

The Raveonettes released Beauty Dies, the third in a series of four EPs they plan to put out by year's end. I actually do not like much the latest The Raveonettes album (Lust Lust Lust) even if i love this great danish duo. However, this Ep is surprisingly a great work. Young and Beautiful reminds me amazing and sweet My bloody Valentine songs such as Loose Yourself in Me.

The Raveonettes - Young and Beautiful

Tracklist:
01. Young and Beautiful
02. Black/White
03. The Thief
04. Here Comes the End