This month's Aid or Invade is dedicated to Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, who recently issued a proclamation blaming America's current economic woes on our on our president.

The Warsaw Village Band's Infinity is a healthy dose of weirdness that could work perfectly as the soundtrack for the next Hostel movie.

You would probably expect this CD to suck louder than Charlie Daniels at a hog-blowing contest.

Schallfaktor's Sittenverfall is a lot better than it has any right to be. Theoretically, anyone could've made this CD — all they would need are some glitchy beats and atmospheric synth pads.

While multi-instrumentalist/monotheist Saft is clearly talented and there are some very interesting musical motifs on Black Shabbis, the CD, taken in total, is just this side of unlistenable.

No, he doesn't lift it over his head and pluck the strings with his teeth before setting his gayageum on fire and hurling it into a crowd of screaming teenage girls. He just plays with an impressive steadiness that's expressive without being wild.

World music junkies and regular run-of-the-mill junkies have two things in common: Each awakes every morning on a bare, pee-stained mattress on the floor of a stranger's garage, and each then spends every waking moment of the remainder of the day searching for "the pure stuff."

Aid or Invade would like to congratulate Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso Maraire on gathering together all of the right ingredients for her first CD in more than a decade, Rebel Woman (Cumbancha).

Americans love to make fun of France even though the French don't have a Creation Museum, hockey moms or Alabama. What they do have is a first lady who does a lousy Nico impersonation.