by SHANE SINNOTT

Oh, you lucky devils. By the time you read this, the new Lenny Kravitz album will have “dropped,” as those in the biz say, ready to be absorbed by your aching ears. It’s called It Is Time for a Love Revolution (expect to see the acronym IITFALR cropping up in critics’ circles momentarily) and it sounds awful. Before we get to the link, think about this—on Jan. 17, Mr. Kravitz went on a mini-tour to promote the thing, which was done in association with MySpace and called the Get on the Bus tour. At each show, a contest winner was picked, who then got to ride on the Love Revolution bus for the rest of the tour. Yuck. You can get “Dancing Till Dawn,” an uninspired mess featuring lines like, “She takes her time as she approaches me/Then she gives me the sign as she moves her behind/That only God would design,” here: tinyurl.com/yorxpu.

I’m also feeling an obligation to share with you some songs by Vampire Weekend, who are by far the most blogged-about band on the Internet lately, riding a wave of online boosterism that will sell out a tour, at least. You can get “Oxford Comma” at tinyurl.com/253cz3, which is a little ditty of a song that makes me think of Belle & Sebastian, if they lost most of their band members and instruments. Also, “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” which is more of the same, is at tinyurl.com/ypcg3z.

And finally, as always, I’ve been scouring the Internet for covers for you jerks. Here’s Matt Pond PA covering “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel: tinyurl.com/yr8rgs. It’s a really weird choice, as I think it’s one of those unassailable songs—like trying to cover “Heroin” or something—but there you go. Also of note: Cat Power making Oasis’s “Wonderwall” way more depressing than it already is, at tinyurl.com/yswc2w, the Decemberists covering Joanna Newsom’s “Bridges and Ballons” at tinyurl.com/274oeo, and the absolutely gorgeous version of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” by M. Ward, at tinyurl.com/yv4y24. Play it at your wedding.