BOS2 "Slap & Tickle" -- I think this was a bustout in Dec, and a worthy one.
And I'd like to take the credit for requesting it 
Regarding the Cars - is this their first release of new material since 1987? And is it one of the more obnoxious cases of "putting out material because we have to"?
"b/c we have to" as in a contract obligation? I don't think that's the case. "b/c we think it will $ell?" quite possibly.
the "New Cars" vomited out a recording with Todd Rundgren taking the role of ectomorphic geek frontman a few years back, but that band only had Elliot Easton (a left handed guitar god) Greg Hawkes (keys, webmaster) in it from the orig lineup. they filled out the remainder with Utopia's bassist Kasim Sulton and Tubes drummer Prairie Prince. orig drummer David Robinson didn't participate, Ben Orr died a few years ago and Ric "Cndy" O was apparently still too busy climbing the Paulina Porizkova stairway to heaven to participate ... but who knows why he and David jumped in here. Ric put out a few solo things here and there, but I don't know what the cars as a Group did b/w 1987 and The New Cars.
