Weekly roundup

This week started with The Walkmen's Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone. Somehow this seems to fall into a similar Velvet Underground influenced rock that informs Interpol and, to a certain extent, The Strokes. I don't have their new album yet, but I'll probably get it sometime soon. Alirio Diaz's Five Centuries of Spanish Guitar Music is recorded by one of the masters of Spanish Guitar. Invited to become assistant and substitute for Andres Segovia in 1957, Diaz spent seven years working with the Spanish guitar master and sharpening his skills. Michel Legrand's score for Les Parapluies de Cherbourg bring back the movie with every note. As the entire film is sung, you could probably follow the entire plot without having seen the movie. If you could speak French. Salif Keita's Mouffou brings it back to his roots. The Malian singer combines African, jazz, funk, Europop, and R&B to fashion his own brand of Afro-Pop.       As far as singles are concerned, I'm listening to a lot of Vienna Teng's songs from her website. It's like a cross between Vanessa Carlton and October Project. Or something like that.