What the Creative Loafing music team is listening to this Monday to get us through the day and rocket launch the week…

– The Grecian Urns, Lovedream (2010)

This week's music feature spotlights summertime local ensemble Grecian Urns, and I've been spinning their new disc since I snagged a copy after our interview last week. The band is made up of students who've been coming together over the past four summers to perform while off from school, and they self-released the Lovedream LP a few months back. Their pretty heart-hugging folk pop is fresh and full of sunshine, and the arrangements and lyricism are very mature for musicians so relatively young, with horns, strings and percussive textures, charming boy-girl harmonies, whistling and clapping and exuberant sing-shouting, and catchy refrains that trigger instant feel-good gooseflesh. The story will go up a little later. Stay tuned …

Shawn – Soundtrack to Tron, Wendy Carlos (1982)

Did you know the person who put together this soundtrack is the same person responsible for the music of A Clockwork Orange and several other moog/electronic/synthesizer soundtracks, and working under the name Walter Carlos? Many people think that Wendy Carlos is Walter Carlos' brother or cousin, but she is not. She was Walter Carlos, before the sex change…

Taylor – Pat Benatar, Get Nervous (1982)

Gabe – Aerosmith, Live Bootleg (1978)

Not an illegal release, simply the title of Aerosmith's 2-LP live album that collects performances from all stages of their career up until its 1978 release. Saturday night's awesome show at the Amphitheater has put me in a serious Aerosmith mood. This is a smokin' live album that captures the Boston band at their dirtiest and rawest. The version of "Mama Kin" alone is worth the price of admission here.

This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.