1 Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band (Copenhagen, Denmark) "Kolmilan" X-Ray Spirit (Amazon) similar: Apparat Organ Quartet 2 3 4 Adam Green (Brooklyn, NYC) "Morning After Midnight", "Tropical Island", and "Grandma Shirley and Papa" Sixes and Sevens (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson 5 Taken By Trees (Sweden) "Sweet Child O' Mine" Sweet Child O' Mine EP (iTunes, eMusic) similar: The Concretes 6 7 Pete & The Pirates (Reading, UK) "She Doesn't Belong to Me" and "Mr Understanding" Little Death (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Apartment, The Ceasars 8 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (Portland, OR) "Gardenia" Real Emotional Trash (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Pavement, Yo La Tengo ALSO ON THIS SHOW Clips from the March 13th, 2008 episode of NPR 's Fresh Air with Terry Gross (subscribe) featuring Dan Kennedy talking about life in a corporate record label's marketing department, and Eliot Van Buskirk discussing music's digital future. As well as a clip about Bush's tax cuts at work from March 14's The Rachel Maddow Show . Less