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 album's lubricated pipe-laying sex-talk is completely subverted by the fact that it's streaming in its entirety at VH1. That's 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 group's latest is called
Cease to Begin, proving Kid Rock doesn't have the market cornered on ridiculous album titles. Two words for BOH:
Bob Eucharist. Take it. At the rate we're going, we're never going to get to use it ourselves.
Jens Lekman, “The Opposite of Hallelujah” [
Secretly Canadian]
The title is a tease, so we'll just tell you: it's Gogurt. The opposite of hallelujah is Gogurt.
LeAnn Rimes,
Family [
Full Album Stream]
She's nobody's baby now: Rimes latest rolls out young runaways, white-trash whores and philandering dads before the (surprisingly gritty) title track winds down. It's
LeAnnRimes: SVU. And you naysayers, don't complain — you almost got a track from the Josh Groban Christmas album.
Vanessa Carlton, “Nolita Fairytale” [
Video]
Carlton's new video opens exactly like her 2002 breakthrough “A Thousand Miles” — until a taxi smashes her piano and we're dragged (kicking & screaming!) through a tuneless meta-narrative that deconstructs Carlton's turbulent (we guess?) five-year career. Hey, call us old-fashioned, but we'll take her 2004 “Silent All These Years” re-write “
White Houses” over this Derrida fever-dream any day.
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