Something seems wrong with the guitar: Heavy metal
Something seems wrong with his voice: Punk
Something seems wrong with the melody: Hip-hop
Something seems wrong with the world today: Folk rock
Something seems wrong with the CD player: Techno
Something seems wrong with my speakers: Industrial
Something seems wrong with that note - wait, now it works: Jazz
Something seems wrong with everyone who doesn't like what I do: Prog rock
Something seems wrong with reality: Dubstep

Current earworm that I'm totally okay with: San Cisco's "Awkward." Their early-rock sensibilities bring along some interesting rhythms.

This young four-piece band has been making waves at music festivals across Australia, which got them signed to Fat Possum records, who'll be releasing their self-titled EP in a couple of weeks.

Current earworm that I'm totally okay with: Django Django's "Default":

From their self-titled album.

The world needs more of this sort of thing.

Tom Pang grew up playing violin, which his dad wanted him to play in an orchestra. I am glad he may have disappointed his dad when he discovered an affection for bluegrass, and applied his Mongolian roots to it.

A different kind of that high and lonesome sound.

After a strangely barren several months musically - not to say there hasn't been any good music this year, just that very little I've heard so far has really hooked me (outside of the new Dan Auerbach produced Dr. John album, Locked Down) in a way that said "this is something different, special, and wonderful" - this pops up and makes me want to give someone my money.

The Bombay Royale have put out a concept album, and the concept is the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. I know, it's been done before with respectable success (Rome and Year Zero are a couple of examples), but this... wow.

The album's Bondian title, You Me Bullets Love, gives a clue to the tone of the soundtrack for a 1970s Bollywood spy movie that I really want to watch now.

You can download the album's title track from the Bombay Royale website for free (with a bit of convoluted site navigation and giving them your e-mail address).

That one's catchy enough, and the rest of it is quite entertaining, but what really got me - I mean really got me - is their version of "Jaan Pehechan Ho" (originally produced for the 1965 movie Gumnaam).

Wonderful.

Give the rest of it a listen.

You can download You Me Bullets Love from Amazon.

What's you favorite album of the year so far?