The flu has slowed me down a bit this week, although you don’t have to worry, I’m not contagious. But these songs are!

Prepare to be infected. With awesomeness!

(I am heavily medicated.)

Let’s round ’em up.

Rival Sons – Feral Roots

Someone thought to combine chocolate and peanut butter, and that worked out well. Rival Sons smash together Led Zeppelin and Queens Of The Stone Age, and that works out well, too.

Liz Brasher – Painted Image

Soulful and bluesy.

The Dandy Warhols – Why You So Crazy

If Ween made a trippy but restrained psych-rock album.

Alice Merton – MINT

Her debut album fulfills the promise of her smash hit “No Roots.”