Single Minded: Kid Rock, Band of Horses, Jens Lekman and More
 

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.
Kid Rock, Rock N Roll Jesus [Full Album Stream]
All of this albums lubricated pipe-laying sex-talk is completely subverted by the fact that its streaming in its entirety at VH1. Thats like The Pick-Up Artist having to work the Thursday night shift at Coldstone Creamery.
Band of Horses, “Is There a Ghost” [MySpace]
This Seattle groups latest is called Cease to Begin, proving Kid Rock doesnt have the market cornered on ridiculous album titles. Two words for BOH: Bob Eucharist. Take it. At the rate were going, were never going to get to use it ourselves.
Jens Lekman, “The Opposite of Hallelujah” [Secretly Canadian]
The title is a tease, so well just tell you: its Gogurt. The opposite of hallelujah is Gogurt.
LeAnn Rimes, Family [Full Album Stream]
Shes nobodys baby now: Rimes latest rolls out young runaways, white-trash whores and philandering dads before the (surprisingly gritty) title track winds down. Its LeAnnRimes: SVU. And you naysayers, dont complain — you almost got a track from the Josh Groban Christmas album.
Vanessa Carlton, “Nolita Fairytale” [Video]
Carltons new video opens exactly like her 2002 breakthrough “A Thousand Miles” — until a taxi smashes her piano and were dragged (kicking & screaming!) through a tuneless meta-narrative that deconstructs Carltons turbulent (we guess?) five-year career. Hey, call us old-fashioned, but well take her 2004 “Silent All These Years” re-write “White Houses” over this Derrida fever-dream any day.
[Photo: Butterfield/Getty]


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