Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more.
Paul Anka, “Mr. Brightside” [Stereogum]
Anka covers the Killers, Cyndi Lauper and Daniel Powter. Okay, look, lets just get this out of the way early: its a really, really slow Tuesday.
Ben Harper, “In the Colors” [Ben Harper MySpace]
Cat Stevens changes his name one more time and turns out this baleful little folk/soul song.
Lyle Lovett, “Up in Indiana” [Lyle Lovett MySpace]
That creepy baker from Short Cuts makes nice with this warm and winning foot-stomper.
Yung Joc, “Coffee Shop” [Rhapsody]
You can listen to all four minutes of this, or you can go here and preview thirty seconds of every song on the next Kanye West record. You make the call.
Aesop Rock feat. John Darnielle, “Coffee” [Aesop Rock MySpace]
Aesop Rock gets the Mountain Goats John Darnielle to contribute a guest verse on his new album, which is like the indie rock version of getting … well, no, actually its just pretty dorky.
Bonus!: In addition to offering up Bruce Springsteen’s new single, “Radio Nowhere” for free download this week, iTunes is giving away Paul McCartney’s “Nod Your Head” from Memory Almost Full (the video is up for grabs, too).


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