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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