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New Music Releases For Aug. 31 Include Jenny and Johnny and The Weepies
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What to Download: New Music This Week

If you're in a "love stinks" type of mood, then I'd urge you away from today's new music offerings: both releases are from duos that are together in real life and in song, and their happy tunes will have you smiling and humming along.
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If you're in a "love stinks" type of mood, then I'd urge you away from today's new music offerings: both releases are from duos that are together in real life and in song, and their happy tunes will have you smiling and humming along. Check out the tracks that I've decided are the most downloadable.

Jenny & Johnny, I'm Having Fun Now
The lowdown: The romantic relationship between Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice has yielded a breezy collaboration album of sweet tracks to make you forget that Summer's ending.
Choice tracks:
"Big Wave"
"Scissor Runner"
"Just Like Zeus"
Download this album if you: Want to feel vicariously in love and drive around with your convertible's top down.

The Weepies, Be My Thrill
The lowdown: The folk-pop couple returns with their first album since becoming parents, and the influence shows. Full of tracks that are simplistic, upbeat, and oddly comforting, think of it as kids' music for adults.
Choice tracks:
"I Was Made For Sunny Days"
"Add My Effort"
"Please Speak Well of Me"
Download this album if you: Like happy melodies that you can clap to.

Sex and the City Movie, Soundtrack
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Album Review: The Sex and the City Movie Soundtrack

I was lucky enough to take an advance spin of the new soundtrack for the Sex and the City movie and I immediately thought of good times with girlfriends.
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I was lucky enough to take an advance spin of the new soundtrack for the Sex and the City movie and I immediately thought of good times with girlfriends. In aggregate, it's not entirely a get-up-and-shake-your-booty kind of mix, but just a cool bunch of songs about love and friendship. I think it would be quite perfect for the background music at a hip wedding shower actually.

The soundtrack is packed with a bunch of recognizable names, like Jennifer Hudson, whose tune "All Dressed in Love" is a cute, uptempo disco anthem that reminds me of the exuberance found in "It's Raining Men." Morningwood's (ha! That name!) "New York Girls" is not my favorite, and if I were in charge of finding a good retro-rock vibe for the album (or the movie) I would have gone with Franz Ferdinand or even the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. That and the smooth techno beats in "I Like the Way" by Kaskade are the kinds of tracks mixed between better songs that give the whole thing the "background music" vibe I'm talking about.

To check out who else is included and the rest of my thoughts, read more