Brandon Flower’s solo album comes out today. If you want to give it a listen, it has been streaming over at MOG for the last week. It is a subscription site, but you can get a 3-day trial without any credit cards or anything. Since I have a tendency to flip-flop on my opinion of Killer’s albums, I am going to wait till I hear this one a bunch more times till I decide if I like it.

Another group worth a listen is the Mynabirds. They do a great kind of gospel/country/rock music. Can’t remember where I heard them first, but you can stream their entire album over at Myspace if you click on the “Albums” tab in the music player. I don’t know when Myspace started having the option for the entire album, but it is a fantastic idea.

The sound opinions guys recently had a show about the music scenes of Baltimore, Cleveland and Portland. There is a great band worth a listen out of Baltimore called J Roddy Walston and the Business who also have full albums on Myspace. It is straightforward rock and roll with guitar, bass, drums, and pianie.

Finally, personal favorite Those Darlins got a new album coming out and have just released a 7″ with two songs they have been touring with for a while: Night Jogger and FunStix Party.

One of the only good things about the end of summer and beginning of fall is the excitement over the new TV.  It liked that Donald Glover from Community was staying active with his new popularity by making a movie with his college comedy group, even though I didn’t like the movie.  I am surprised/confused/entertained by him releasing a rap album.  He goes by the name Childish Gambino; the songs are not all funny but not completely serious either.  Check out his single(?) at Pretty Much Amazing or you can download his whole album at his website.