every time i go on a trip there is music that goes with it. i usually download new stuff and listen to it as i drive, sit in the now permanent middle seat and ignoring my neighbors, working on the laptop at the coffee shop trying to override the bad music in the background, etc.

so every trip kind of has its own soundtrack. this time it was The Raconteurs. Jack White from the White Stripes and a couple of guys from the Greenhorns that i don’t remember their name. amazing stuff. this is the best album i have listened to in a long time. the tracks i love the best are Steady As She Goes, Together, Yellow Sun and Blue Veins.

i heard about The Raconteurs from AOL’s The Interface podcast. it is a great way to discover new music, and the best thing that came out of AOL in years.

i also listen to podcasts (basically catching up with WNYC Brian Lehrer and Leonard Lopate), but sometimes my head is too overwhelmed digesting stuff, and even if i try to listen to them talk i can’t. so i turn to music.