I bought two new CDs - The Strokes and REM's "up"...funny, everyone's freaking out about the Strokes and I don't find their music incredibly inspired. The CDs a lot of fun to listen to and I'm sure will be a nice addition to my driving line up. As for the REM, I'm enamoured with it already. If you're familiar with their past stuff, like I was (I was a big REM junkie in the late 80s even though I was like, 10 years old) "up" is an eye (ear?) opener. It's funny that everyone thought "Kid A" by Radiohead was the first time a contemporary rock band experimented with electronica, but "up" came out long before "Kid A"...either way, both bands took a different track and they're both worth a listen.