Special FIRST-EPISODE-OF-SEASON-5 AND ALL-NEW-MUSIC-FROM-NYC-BANDS episode! 1 Vampire Weekend (Brooklyn, NYC) "M79" Vampire Weekend (iTunes, Amazon MP3) similar: Paul Simon, Hallelujah Chicken Run Band 2 3 Balthrop, Alabama (Brooklyn, NYC) "Love to Love You" and "Another Hell to Live In" Your Big Plans & Our Little Town (iTunes, CD Baby MP3 ) similar: Neutral Milk Hotel, The Decemberists 4 Yeasayer (NYC) "2080" All Hour Cymbals (eMusic, iTunes, Amazon MP3) similar: MGMT 5 6 MGMT (NYC) "Time to Pretend" and "The Youth" Oracular Spectacular (iTunes, EP @ eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar:Yeasayer 7 The Magnetic Fields (NYC) "California Girls" Distortion (iTunes, Amazon MP3) similar: My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain 8 Vampire Weekend (Brooklyn, NYC) "One (Blake's Got a New Face)" Vampire Weekend (iTunes, Amazon MP3) similar: Paul Simon, Hallelujah Chicken Run Band ALSO ON THIS SHOW This episode features clips from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (subscribe) with the evil genius Frank Luntz discussing Hillary vs. Obama vs. McCain and why Maher is (and why I am) supporting Obama. And also clips from the excellent NY Times Magazine column The Ethicist with Randy Cohen (subscribe). Less