music review time

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Garbage, Bleed Like Me: a straight-forward rocker, Garbage-style.  It's good, but there's nothing special on it.  "Bad Boyfriend", the opener, has Dave Grohl on drums, and that's usually a huge boon, but he doesn't add much this time.  Shirley just seems to come off a bit drained.

The Arcade Fire, Funeral: i'd heard a couple of tracks on XM, and then i listened to the whole album when i found it on some random coworker's iTunes share.  It's quirky, sometimes New Waveish, occasionally French-Canadian rock.  It's wonderful, familiar yet original.  There's a free mp3 on amazon.com, if you want to check that out.

Finally, check out the video for the single off Sleater-Kinney's upcoming album, The Woods.  It just plain rules.  They're coming to San Francisco in June, and i'll be there.