My new guilty pleasure is a group called
The Be Good Tanyas. They are melodic alt folk country with a singer that has done a lot of work in the punk and alt rock fields. It doesn't sound like it would work, but it does.
One of my favorite tracks is
Ootisheenia, but I am liking the whole album.
I got it off of eMusic, another new guilty pleasure. As much as I love iTunes, eMusic has twice the selection of off the beaten track recordings - I'm finding newer music like this that I'd never find on iTunes as well as nearly every goth/punk/hardcore/whatever weird favorite group from my youth, out takes from favorites like Johnny Cash, etc and for half the price of iTunes to boot.
If you
click this link you'll get 25 free songs for signing up at eMusic, too (thought I'd share the happiness for other music junkies out there).