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Single Minded: Kid Rock, Band of Horses, Jens Lekman and More

10/9/07, 10:25 am EST

Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more.

Kid Rock, Rock N Roll Jesus [Full Album Stream]
All of this album’s lubricated pipe-laying sex-talk is completely subverted by the fact that it’s streaming in its entirety at VH1. That’s like The Pick-Up Artist having to work the Thursday night shift at Coldstone Creamery.

Band of Horses, “Is There a Ghost” [MySpace]
This Seattle group’s latest is called Cease to Begin, proving Kid Rock doesn’t have the market cornered on ridiculous album titles. Two words for BOH: Bob Eucharist. Take it. At the rate we’re going, we’re never going to get to use it ourselves.

Jens Lekman, “The Opposite of Hallelujah” [Secretly Canadian]
The title is a tease, so we’ll just tell you: it’s Gogurt. The opposite of hallelujah is Gogurt.

LeAnn Rimes, Family [Full Album Stream]
She’s nobody’s baby now: Rimes latest rolls out young runaways, white-trash whores and philandering dads before the (surprisingly gritty) title track winds down. It’s LeAnnRimes: SVU. And you naysayers, don’t complain — you almost got a track from the Josh Groban Christmas album.

Vanessa Carlton, “Nolita Fairytale” [Video]
Carlton’s new video opens exactly like her 2002 breakthrough “A Thousand Miles” — until a taxi smashes her piano and we’re dragged (kicking & screaming!) through a tuneless meta-narrative that deconstructs Carlton’s turbulent (we guess?) five-year career. Hey, call us old-fashioned, but we’ll take her 2004 “Silent All These Years” re-write “White Houses” over this Derrida fever-dream any day.

[Photo: Butterfield/Getty]


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