Briefly, other things you should listen to:

Teaching The Indie Kids To Dance Again features Ash guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, who I’m convinced is being prepped for a breakout debut performance on the British charts with Grey Will Fade. As is generally the case with good British records, there will likely not be a North American release anytime soon, if at all, so you’ll have to cope with the two tracks here and the first single, “Kim Wilde,” on Hatherley’s official site. Suffice it to say, though, I’ll put down the hefty import dollars to own this.

And on The Tofu Hut (which flagrantly abandons the convention of the single post by piling an entire day’s worth into a single permalinked entry), a couple of live tracks from songstress Nellie McKay. You may have noticed her new album, Get Away From Me, sitting on the shelves; if you’d picked it up, you probably would’ve noticed that a) the “critics love this!” sticker on the front described her as “Eminem meets Doris Day”, and b) she’s a proud member of PETA. Don’t let either of those things dissuade you from giving these two live tracks a try, though (for the record: animal rights yay; asking Timothy McVeigh to be your spokesperson and advocating beer over milk as the healthy choice, not so much).