Kevin Bronson on October 1st, 2008

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[Consider these your pre-Palin listening party suggestions before the vice presidential debates:]

The Crystal Method has long aligned itself with a party — mostly the Dance Party. Now the dangerous duo of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland has revisited an old song, “Now Is the Time,” and remixed it with a guest vocalist. Well, more like a guest speaker. Those are snippets from Barack Obama’s DNC speech spliced into the racehorse track, which gets my vote.

||| Download: “Now Is the Time (Vote ’08 Remix)” (e-mail address required.

And on a distinctly bipartisan tip, there is a nice new warm-and-fuzzy from Canadian troubadour Luke Doucet called “I Wish I Was American.” No matter that Canadians technically are Americans — you get his drift. Doucet, whose latest album “Blood’s Too Rich” came out earlier this year, sings “I don’t have to be a resident / to care about who’s president.” Nice.

||| Download: “I Wish I Was American.”

Photo credits: Crystal Method from their MySpace; Luke Doucet by Ivan Otis.