Blitzen Trapper’s  “Silver Moon”

The former Covenant kids are back with a very autumn-flavored single, sounding like Bruce Springsteen on a good day in a better world. I like to think that if they had gone to Covenant with our current batch of students, they would’ve stuck around for more than a year…

Pheonix’s 1901

The French veterans pump enough synth and spirit into 3 minutes and 15 seconds to make you rethink the label “freedom” fries. Simultaneously confirms this band’s place in popendom and makes the Cadillac SRX look like the greatest car since the Model T.

Julian Casablancas’s 11th Dimension

It’s a single outside of its season, a booty-shaking swan song for the summer. He may have nothing to say, but man does he say it well. The vibe is an old friend that is more than welcome at our place.