My newest (to me) music

The B-52s newish album "Funplex" is awesome. No, really! Every track has a great groove that causes involuntary toe-tapping and/or head-bopping. Fred Schneider is the man. How much fun would it be to hang out with them for a day?

My favorite "new" music is Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's "Pictures at an Exhibition." I was first introduced to this through a dvd of a live concert. It has to be one of the greatest albums ever recorded, period. Their arrangements/interpretations of the movements stay true to the original work but add that ELP heavy synth sound we all love and enjoy. "The Curse of Baba-Yaga" might be my favorite part simply because the bassoon soli is replaced by an amazingly distorted guitar with a wah-wah pedal (I think?). "The Gnome" and "The Old Castle" are equally fun, with the former's drum part and the latter's crazy introduction. I probably shouldn't be singling out specific tracks because it's a waste of time; the entire album is phenomenal.