I've been having a lucky streak when it comes to new music:

Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

It turns out that Joe Strummer faked his death. Thank goodness.

Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War

Every Stars song sort of sounds like it's being sung while staring passionately into someone's eyes as a mustachioed villain flourishes his cape in the wings and plots to destroy the Moulin Rouge. This may or may not be a problem.

Travison Morrison – All Y'All

The emerging consensus seems to be "almost as good as the Plan!" I'll take a dramatically iconoclastic approach and say that parts of it are just as good as the Plan, while others are not.

The Cribs – Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

Where were you guys when I was driving to the beach?

The Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army

They have more than one song now, and you should give it a listen.

SPECIAL BONUS SINGLE TRACK ANALOGIZING:

Maritime – The Guns of Navarone

Robert Pollard, polished with granulated sugar to a gleaming smoothness.

ALSO: WOXY's 32kbps aacPlus stream really does sound amazingly good in comparison to their 64kbps MP3 stream. iTunes can't play it, but VLC can.