S4,E13: 7/23/07 (Polyphonic Spree, Ballet, Quit Your Dayjob, Black Box Recorder, Coldplay, Cat Stevens, Alexi Murdoch)

First up, Dallas' The Polyphonic Spree did "Mental Cabaret" from their new album The Fragile Army (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon) which I like a lot less than I wanted to. Next two songs by NYC's indie pop band The Ballet. We heard "I Hate the War" and "In My Head" both from their debut album Mattachine! (iTunes, Website), which can both be downloaded from their site as it turns out. Then two short songs from Sweden's Quit Your Dayjob, first the title track from their album Sweden We Got a Problem (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon), then "Vlado Video". Next two songs from the UK's other Saint Ettiene, that would be Black Box Recorder, doing "Start as You Mean to Go On" and a cover of the old "Seasons in the Sun", both from their b-sides collection The Worst of... (eMusic, Amazon). Then we heard Cat Stevens' "Tea for the Tillerman" from his album by the same name (iTunes, Amazon) as well as from the ending of each episode of the BBC series Extras (Amazon, Netflix S1, Netflix S2) starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Ashley Jensen, from which we heard the version of the song performed by Coldplay for the show. And finally Los Angeles' (by way of Scotland) Alexi Murdoch did his great "Song for You" from his debut album of Nick-Drake-esque songs called Time Without Consequence (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon).

This weeks show features clips from Extras S2 which just came out on DVD (Amazon, Netflix), as well a clip from Air America Radio's The Rachel Maddow Show about the FDA.