NEXT WEEK 12

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The Playlist for week 12 on NEXT.

The Presets – Girl and the Sea (Beams)
Electro dance beats plus dirty guitar equals good summer time fun cd.

Frank Black – In the Time of My Ruin (Fast Man Raider Man)
Now I miss the Pixies – lets get that outta the way. One of my all time favs but I love solo Frank Black too. Continues his roots/Americana/ alt-country ways. It’s a lot to love too as this is a double disc but not all of it works.

The Damnwells – You Don’t Have to Like Me to Love Me (Air Stereo)
This is a perfect excuse to pick up two albums by them. Air Stereo Due out August 15th and the criminally overlooked Bastards of the Damn. Think of them as a Wilco’s B team or Westerberg fronting Soul Asylum. Get Bastards of the Damned now.

Ray LaMontagne – Crazy (Cover of Gnarls Barkley)
You can’t escape this song this summer.

Starsailor – In the Crossfire (On The Outside)
Continuing the Travis/Coldplay version of rock and/or roll. Look for the album on August 22nd. The US version gets a bonus track too.

Johnny Cash – Like the 309 (American V: A Hundred Highways)
This is being touted as the last song Johnny Cash ever wrote. You can’t listen to this cd and not think about death. It’s everywhere and obviously on Cash’s mind too. His voice many be shot but oh man is this great listen all the way through.

Death Cab for Cutie – What Sarah Said (Plans)
Great epic lush song from DCFC’s last cd Plans. Have you ever wanted a reason to visit Kansas…here’s one
Death Cab For Cutie leads the line-up for the first-ever Bleeding Kansas Festival taking place next month in Lawrence, Kansas.The all-day music festival happens August 5th at Lawrence's Burcham Park. Along with headliners Death Cab For Cutie, the event will also feature performances by UK trio Keane, the Secret Machines, the Juan Maclean, Mates of the State, and Broken Social Scene.

Neko Case – Hold on, Hold On (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
I am sure this cd will be on quite a few top 10 lists at the end of this year. Yes it’s that good. Born in Alexandria VA moved around a bit made most famous by recording with Vancouver’s New Pornographers. She now calls Chicago home.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – Toothbrush and My Table (Nothing But the Water)
Can you say Bonnie Raitt?
Grade just turned 23 and although this cd is barely 3 months old their sound is changing. Thanks to dates at bonaroo, and with My Morning Jacket, and the North Mississippi All Stars. Nothing But the Water" was recorded in a "funky, old, historical" barn near Waitsfield. The follow-up will be made elsewhere and surely have a much different feel.

Michael Franti and Spearhead – East To The West (Yell Fire!)
I think I’m going to write in Michael Franti’s name for President next time around. The man is brilliant. I love his lyrics. Check out a dvd too called I Know I’m Not Alone. His world view and music have always been entangled but never more so then on this cd. He recorded this after a trip to the Middle East.

Belle and Sebastian – Funny Little Frog (The Life Pursuit)
I looked back at my playlists and noticed that I had yet to play a tune off this album. So here’s Band S. takes its name from a French children's television series about a boy and his dog
Belle & Sebastian have managed to find a way to grow without changing their identity.

Goal the movie

The answer to most of the WCs questions. Via Page 2.

TV rates...Great.
The U.S. television ratings for the World Cup final are in, and not surprisingly, they were quite high. As Richard Sandomir reports in Tuesday’s Times, the Italy-France finalissima drew 16.9 million viewers — 11.9 million on ABC and 5 million on Univision. It is unclear whether those figures count the large groups, sometimes numbering to several hundreds of people, that gathered in public places to watch. Even so, the numbers are triple those of 2002 and 31 percent higher than 1998. And, as Sandomir points out, the viewership for Sunday’s match was greater than that for the NBA finals and about even with the NCAA men’s basketball final and the World Series. (Interestingly, though, viewership numbers for this year’s World Cup final are merely even with those for the 1994 final, when the tournament was held in the United States.)